Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
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. …
“Wonderland” to open on Broadway in April
A Broadway bow in 2011 has been scheduled for’Wonderland: A New Alice, the Frank Wildhorn musical that received its world premiere in Tampa last December starring former Miamian Janet Dacal. The cast has yet to be announced for the show, …
Caldwell’s stripped-down Sondheim to continue with “Follies”
An unvarnished theatrical success of the past two years has been Caldwell Theatre’s stripped down concert versions of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods. Caldwell chief Clive Cholerton has teed up the next in …
Nothing comforting about Ground Up’s chilling Pillowman
Murder and imagination take centerstage in the harrowing play, The Pillowman, by Martin McDonagh, now enjoying a strong production by the Miami theatre company Ground Up and Rising. The Pillowman is set in an unnamed totalitarian dictatorship.’ Katurian (Curtis Belz) …
“Whipping” comes to Manhattan
This winter, Manhattan Theatre Club will produce Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man, one of last season’s unequivocal hits for Caldwell Theatre Company. This iteration will be directed by Doug Hughes, begins previews Jan. 13 and opens Feb. 1. No casting …
Florida Stage settles into its new, larger home at the Kravis Center
The first thing that hits you is the sense of space. Florida Stage audiences have nestled so long in its intimate amphitheater with the low ceiling that the new home with its stadium feel and lights 30 feet overhead might …
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