Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Even with its inanities, its hard to fight the feeling for “Rock of Ages”
When the great-grandmother in row K stopped clapping to the music long enough to take her glow light out of her purse and wave it weakly in the air Tuesday night, you knew that Rock of Ages had succeeded in …
Sex and the single senior: Sharon Gless opens up about new play at GableStage
Sharon Gless is afraid ‘ an appropriate irony since her role in the play A Round-Heeled Woman is partly about not allowing fear to rob you of a fulfilling life. Despite having acted on stage several times, the television icon …
Broadway’s lights not so bright in February
Timing isn’t just everything in theater, but theater-going as well. I’m going to New York City in early February for the American Theatre Critics Association’s mid-year professional development conference, which is usually a tax-deductible way to go see theater. (Burglars: …
Big hair and lots of guitar coming to the Broward Center with “Rock of Ages”
The creators of the musical Rock of Ages know that the 1980s were a decade of big hair, spandex and metal studs, but above all, it boasted music that celebrated the joy of wretched excess. In these darker days, audience …
1st Stage Festival works announced by Florida Stage
Want to see plays before anyone else? Florida Stage has announced its fifth annual 1st Stage New Works Festival for Feb. 3-6 of staged readings of works-in-progress. In the past, the playwrights have taken the lessons learned from the readings …
“August: Osage County” casting partly announced
Everyone wants to know who’s going to be cast in Actor’s Playhouse production of August: Osage County, set for March 9 to April 10 in Coral Gables. Here’s the partial casting so far for the Pulitzer-winning play that runs three …
A compelling philosophical duel in “Freud’s Last Session”
If you were the kind of college student who sat up till the wee hours with your roommate arguing philosophical questions, you’ll revel in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ intellectual fencing match, Freud’s Last Session. Mark St. Germain’s play, which opened Friday, …
“Goldie” premiere poses tough questions about motherhood at Florida Stage
There was a takeaway moment in the mostly’ comic first act of Florida Stage’s’Goldie, Max & Milk on Friday in which a frazzled single mother, overwhelmed by the challenge of her crying newborn, calls out reflexively in pain and terror, …
Once more with Forbidden feeling
Forbidden Broadway is back at the Arsht Center in town through Dec. 26 for another run of parodies of The Great White Way featuring North Miami Beach native Gina Kreiezmar’s patent-pending impersonations of Ethel Merman, Barbara Streisand, Patti LuPone and …
Beautiful harmonies highlight kitschy “Taffeta Wedding”
If you’re in the mood for a stroll down a musical memory lane, the current production at Broward Stage Door Theatre, A Taffeta Wedding, is right up your alley. A Taffeta Wedding is the fourth show in the Taffetas musical …
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