Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Carbonell Awards And Silver Palms Announce Fall Plans
With the end of summer, the season of South Florida awards galas inches closer, marked by two announcements: the Silver Palms Awards sets a date for announcing the upcoming recipients at a special fundraiser in September; and the Carbonell Awards which has set a November 11 event date now reveals the recipients of its annual “special” awards.
Maltz’s New “The Island Theatre” Space Aims To Diversify Scope
By Bill Hirschman / It is not an imposing space. It is just space. Often blank. Like a canvas waiting for something. But in a few months, magic brewing 10 years at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre will transform that featureless The Island Theatre into Ruth Westheimer’s apartment crammed with memorabilia and the cluttered home of Albee’s George and Martha.
Carbonell Awards Revise Judging/ Scoring System
By Bill Hirschman // Rules how Carbonell Awards are judged were revised this week in response to concerns from theaters and community volunteers about the need to fine-tune the complex mathematics of the results.
A Celebration of Love in A Shonda at the Foundry
By Britin Haller Those lovestruck kids and their warring families in Romeo and Juliet have nothing on the gay couple and their ultra-conservative parental figures in A Shonda, a premiere of a new musical now running at The Foundry in …
Hundred Days Shows the Power of Love
By Oline H. Cogdill Love—no matter how strong, how all-encompassing, how overwhelming—can never last forever, even if we are sure it will. Death, a forced separation, a mental breakdown—all kinds of things can conspire to end that most wonderful of …
Sweet 15 My Quinceañera!: Sweet and Whacky
by Raquel V. Reyes Sweet 15 My Quinceañera!, written and directed by award-winning screenwriter Rick Najera, is billed as an interactive comedic experience. Although it doesn’t fully live up to that interactive promise. Sweet 15 My Quinceañera! is messy fun …
Take a Ride on A Streetcar Named Desire With the New City Players
By Britin Haller Arguably one of the greatest dramatic plays in American theatrical history, and certainly of its time, A Streetcar Named Desire has rolled onto the Island City Stage with a bang. Timothy Mark Davis, the producing artistic director …
Hispanic Theater Fest Of Miami Has Everything From Dramas To Mime To Musical
The International Hispanic Theater Festival of Miami (IHTF) opened its 38th edition July 11 at the Westchester Cultural Arts Center, in Tropical Park, with “Orgia,” a collection of intimate stories of abducted and battered women by the Spanish group La Rara.
New City Players Tackles a ‘Magical’ Streetcar Named Desire
By Aaron Krause “South Florida is going to really sink its teeth into something that is going to be magical, musical, and monumental,” award-winning South Florida director Stuart Meltzer enthuses. And New City Players’ (NCP) Producing Artistic Director Tim …
Shorts weather begins with “Summer Shorts: Flipping the Script”
By Oline Cogdill The calendar dictates the official start of summer—this year it’s June 20—but for avid theater goers the season really kicks off with the first production of City Theatre’s Summer Shorts. The season definitely has begun with “Summer …
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