Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Alliance Theatre’s “House of Yes” leads the week’s openings
The Alliance Theatre Lab could provide the dictionary definition of scrappy. The tiny company operates on a shoestring budget in a rented space in a Miami Lakes shopping center, taking on challenging contemporary dramas. Until a year and a half …
Ledford new head of Theater League
Margaret M. Ledford, resident director at The Promethean Theatre in Davie, has been elected president of the Theatre League of South Florida, the group announced this week. She replaces Meredith Lasher who has led the 18-year-old professional association since October …
Broward theater looking again for a new stage door
The Broward Stage Door Theater is trying once again to expand its operations to another venue outside its Coral Springs home. The company is ‘in negotiations’ with the City of Miami Beach to rent the 304-seat Byron Carlyle Theater as …
Stage Door�s “On the Town” makes for a dull shore leave
Sailors on leave in the big city for 24 hours.’ It’s a premise that hold the promise of adventure and misadventure, of comic situations and romantic entanglements. And that’s the basic plot of On the Town, the musical now playing …
December Shows
Dec. 30-Jan. 30 A Round-Heeled Woman GableStage, ‘Coral Gables Sharon Gless stars as a retired school teacher who has not had sex in 30 years and sets out to remedy the situation by placing an ad in the personals in …
Strong performances in “No Exit” make Sartre’s Hell the place to be
What is your idea of Hell?’ Your definition of torture?’ How will you spend eternity? These are the ideas explored in Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist masterpiece No Exit, which is currently being treated to an intense production by Naked Stage in …
“Cane” premiere shows craft but remains a work in progress at Florida Stage
Andrew Rosendorf demonstrates deft craftsmanship in his new play Cane, which had its world premiere Friday night at Florida Stage, the playwright’s first produced full-length work. But craftsmanship is not enough. Cane still needs more work to generate that indefinable …
Local history inspires young playwright to raise “Cane” at Florida Stage
The sparks fly when a Virginia playwright and a New York director discuss the unlikely topic of 1920s U.S. water policies, which created today’s threat of a water shortage, and served as inspiration for their new drama set in Florida. …
Editor’s statement on Rising Action Theatre
To our readers: David Goldyn, artistic director of Rising Action Theatre, has informed South Florida Theater Review contributor Mary Damiano that the company will no longer provide her with press passes due to her critical review on this site of …
An appendage odyssey with much black humor along the way
Playwright Martin McDonagh steps out of his familiar Irish milieu with his latest play, A Behanding in Spokane, painting a portrait of an American sociopath on a mission to reclaim what’s his.’The play, which ran on Broadway earlier this year …
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