Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Teen violence to be dramatized in Lake Worth
columbinus, a drama about teen violence and alienated youth, will have an added layer of verisimilitude in The Actor’s Workshop & Repertory Co. production this month in Lake Worth; the actors will all be high school students. Students in the …
Rothko tour de force “Red” stands out from Maltz Theatre’s mainstream fare next season
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre announced a 2011-2012 season Thursday marked by the mainstream fare that the Maltz does so well — with one outstanding exception. Sandwiched between Cabaret and Hello Dolly! comes the stunning drama about art and creativity, Red. …
Crowning Glory: Gospel musical is uplifting and entertaining
The relationship between black women and their hats is explored in Crowns, an uplifting, enlightening and entertaining musical written by actress-playwright Regina Taylor, and now playing through Sunday at the Carnival Studio Theater in the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. …
Not high art but “High Dive” provides an amusing evening at New Theatre
High Dive is the shaggiest of shaggy dog stories, but with Barbara Sloan as the storyteller Saturday at New Theatre, it was akin to spending a delightful hour listening to an unusually entertaining luncheon partner. Sloan is the narrator …
“Spider Woman” needs work to ensnare audience in its web
The performing arts are among the few serious creative endeavors that operate under a stopwatch—the endless gestation of Moscow Art Theater drama or Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark apart. At some prearranged point, the show must go on, ready or …
Jewish wiseguy comes to life in Aventura
While Meyer Lansky may not have become a household name like Al Capone or “Lucky” Luciano, the Jewish-American mobster is consistently ranked as one of the Top 10 gangsters of all time. Yet if you listen to his side of …
Critic’s Choice
A large-scale song and dance musical set in a tiny prison cell and a story of a woman’s search for the meaning of her entire life while stuck on a diving board are the headliners this weekend. Kiss of the …
The not-so-Big Easy
Another piece of major casting news: Ever since New Theatre announced it would mount Tennessee Williams’ iconic A Streetcar Named Desire to close its season in May, veteran theatergoers and actors sat around various bars guessing who was going to …
Fort Lauderdale native nabs starring role in a LaBute Broadway debut
When Heather Jane Rolff was trying to make it in New York City in 2004, she and a friend went to see Neil LaBute’s off-Broadway biting social satire Fat Pig. ‘I remember sitting in that theater bawling my eyes out,” …
Sanchez play up next at Promethean Theatre
‘ The scrappy Promethean Theatre in Davie is careful not to announce the dates for a new show, let alone a title, until it has the money to bankroll the production show. So, hot off the press: Promethean will hold …
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