Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Strong cast elevates creepy “Angel Eaters”
The first image of Johnna Adams’ The Angel Eaters is provocative–a tableau of Depression-era characters, looking stunned and haunted, standing in front of a broken-down farmhouse. The next image is of a young girl being embraced by an otherworldly woman. …
The malleable titanium of show tunes
Show tunes pop up in the most unexpected places and the best-constructed ones have a durability and universality that transcend their stage production. Case in point were some of the numbers in Saturday’s concert by Melissa Manchester as part of …
Non-musical chairs at Caldwell
A major break has caused the Caldwell Theatre Company to scramble its planned season schedule. The Boca Raton theater has secured the rights to be the first theater in the region to produce Broadway’s hit play,’God of Carnage. Yasmina Reza’s …
Weak cast does little to strengthen “Steel Magnolias”
The Broward Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs is reviving Steel Magnolias, that iconic chestnut about the strong friendships between a group of Southern women, in a lackluster production that fails to illuminate the winning aspects of Robert Harling’s sentimental …
Caldwell�s “Follies” scores with talented cast
The unavoidable limitations of the Caldwell Theatre’s stirring concert edition of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies will only make you ache for a full production. The single piano standing in for an orchestra, projections standing in for opulent sets, 13 actors standing …
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 …
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