Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Death, dismemberment, and dancing
How many theater productions warn audience members that they may be sitting in a splatter zone? Clearly, Evil Dead The Musical, which’opens Friday at the Promethean Theatre, ‘will never be mistaken for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Featuring zombies, demons, gore …
Caught in the web
When Hap Erstein and I were appearing on the internet radio/TV show, Aisle Say, one of our favorite running jokes was following the comical crawl toward Broadway of the bloated, ill-starred Julie Taymor musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. In …
GableStage’s harrowing “Fifty Words” speaks volumes about marriage
People are work. Relationships are serious work. Marriage is’ . . . well, marriage is what is so incisively depicted in the harrowing domestic drama Fifty Words, given a superb opening-night performance Saturday night in GableStage’s season-closing production. The disintegration …
Mosaic Theatre becomes sole Equity company in Broward County
Audiences may see even more polished productions at Mosaic Theatre as a result of the Plantation’troupe becoming the’only theater company in Broward County to currently operate under a full Equity contract. The new status also gives Equity actors an added …
Caldwell’s historical romance proves less than mesmerizing
It is difficult to tell whether Joel Gross’s script for the world premiere of The Comfort of Darkness is as ham-handed as it sounded Friday night at the Caldwell Theatre. More likely, its modest virtues were flattened by the two-dimensional …
Opening this week
Friday: The Comfort of Darkness at The Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton. Passion, ego and hypnotism are stirred into what the Caldwell hopes will be a bewitching brew in the world premiere of Joel Gross’ romantic drama about Anton Mesmer, …
Caldwell cast works to bring light to “Darkness” premiere
Franz Anton Mesmer, the German grandfather of hypnotherapy, may seem far removed from Icarus, the mythical young man whose hubris spurred him to build wax wings and then died when he flew too close to the sun. But the analogy …
Young playwright’s work to receive GableStage reading
South Florida playwright Michelle Rosenfarb has been accepted in the Master of Fine Arts Dramatic Writing program at the prestigious at New York University’s Tisch School of the Art for the fall semester. To underwrite her sojourn, GableStage has volunteered …
“Wicked Sisters” proves a muddled mix of comedy and drama
Australia is home to strange creatures that seem pasted together: the cuddly but prickly koala, the grounded emu and the duck-billed platypus. None are as strange an ill-fitting hybrid as Alma De Groen’s play from down under, Wicked Sisters, seen …
Struggling in tough times, the M Ensemble Company hopes for a future at the Arsht Center
For nearly 40 years, the M Ensemble Company has held its undisputed position as Florida’s oldest continuing African-American theater company by growing when possible, shrinking when necessary and moving its shoestring operation around Miami-Dade County at least a half-dozen times. …
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