Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Nilo Cruz revisits Cuban-American roots with new play
It won’t just be the presence of the Cuban-American community that will imbue a resonance in Nilo Cruz’s play set in 1960 Havana when it has its world premiere next week in Coral Gables. It’s that Miami’s favorite-son playwright is …
Putting It Together
The South Florida theater season has been quietly churning for weeks with entertaining work like Mosaic Theatre’s Completely Hollywood (Adapted). But it erupts over the next two weekends. — Our Critic’s Choice has to be Caldwell Theatre’s Follies, another of …
Longer Shorts to come
City Theatre, the producer of the annual Summer Shorts productions in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, is undergoing a sea change. The board is reorganizing its staff with some new, but familiar faces. But it’s also ‘considering’ expanding or altering some …
Tickets to Paradise
The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts opens up the’ticket booth for non-subscribers 9 a.m. Saturday for 2010-2011 season of theater and concerts including Dreamgirls and Spring Awakening. Tickets for other shows in the Broadway series will be sold later …
In the Wings
Florida Atlantic University’s theater department is presenting John Guare’s drama of emotional intrigue and introspection among the upper crust, Six Degrees of Separation, slated for Oct. 1-10 in the Studio One Theatre in the Boca Raton campus. The plot depicts …
Rising Action’s amateurish “Fit To Be Tied” unfit for any stage
David Goldyn, producing artistic director of Rising Action Theatre, has a talent for creating theatre spaces. His previous storefront location in Oakland Park had a decidedly non-strip mall intimate ambiance. His new space on the Sunshine Cathedral campus in Fort …
Critic’s Choice
There’s only one opening this weekend: Rising Action Theatre begins its new season in a new venue Friday with Nicky Silver’s dark comedy Fit to be Tied at Sunshine Cathedral, 1480 SW 9th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. The plot follows …
New “Motherhood” musical starts preview gestation this weekend
‘It’s been a long labor,’ said Kathi Glist, a producer of Motherhood the Musical. She’s got more of ’em: ‘I feel like we’re in the third trimester.’ She’s had a year to think up the puns in preparation for the …
Grant Avenue
There’s good news and weird news announced by Theatre Communications Group. The 2010 Edgerton Foundation gave its New American Play Awards this month to 38 theater companies, including two Florida-related properties that will get money for developing a new work. …
One Night Only with a Dreamgirl
Hometown favorite Avery Sommers, who has sung on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Showboat, will perform her cabaret concert You’re Gonna Hear From Me, featuring show tunes and standards with a jazz and blues feel at the Caldwell Theatre in …
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