Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
GableStage sets a quirky, wide-ranging lineup
Several theater companies have announced some exciting prospects for the coming 2010-2011 season, among them Actors’ Playhouse mounting the monumental August: Osage County and the world premiere of local hero Nilo Cruz’s The Color of Desire. But in the last-but-not-least …
Casting details for Dramaworks’ next season
Palm Beach Dramaworks has announced casting for the coming season, a mix of familiar local names and out-of-state ringers. George Bernard Shaw’s Candida (Oct. 8- Nov. 21) stars Kim Cozort as a beautiful Victorian woman caught in a romantic triangle …
Simoleons for Zoetic
Zoetic Stage, the theater company just wriggling out of its shell, is holding the second of three fundraisers at 7 p.m. Aug. 30 at Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gable. Once again, the program will be a …
Dame with the purple mane to return
The Arsht Center will host a purple-maned beauty from Down Under on April 13 and 14 in An Evening With Dame Edna. The lady’s visit to the Parker Playhouse a few years ago received a tepid response from the subscription …
“Evil Dead The Musical” is a bloody great time
Demonic dismemberment is played for laughs in Evil Dead The Musical, the stage homage to the cult horror movie franchise, which kicks off the sixth season at the Promethean Theatre in Davie. ‘You’re not going to learn a thing tonight,’ …
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 …
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