Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Entertaining Sweet Charity Reflects Its Social Myopia
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Sweet Charity is a thoroughly well-produced and inarguably entertaining time machine back to when the musical was created in 1966 and when the cutting-edge dance craze was the Frug. It also celebrates a sexist societal mindset that will aggravate anyone born after 1966.
Feature: Nilo Cruz Directs 20th Anniversary Anna in the Tropics
The drama Anna in the Tropics, about a family of Cuban-American cigar makers in Ybor City near Tampa in 1929, has now turned 20, and Miami New Drama is presenting a production directed by its author Nilo Cruz.
Boca Stage’s Time Alone Examines Grief, Doubt Within Two Isolated People
Time Alone brings out moments of self-doubt; of deep, endless grief; questions of what ifs and should haves —so skillfully explored in Boca Stage’s scintillating Time Alone. Credit director Genie Croft and first-class actors Karen Stephens & Rio Chavarro — who elevate it into a bold, emotional production.
Riverside Gifts Exquisite Voices, Bold Visuals To La Mancha
With its soul-stirring theme ,” the musical Man of La Mancha is the ideal choice for Riverside Theatre to reflect on how it has triumphed over adversity.This abundantly satisfying production boasts exquisite voices and bold visuals to tell the basic story of summoning the courage to follow one’s star.
Book Review: New Sondheim Volume More About Interviewer
D.T. Max got Stephen Sondheim to reveal glimpses of his work process in five “interviews” but clearly, Max is almost as crucial, at least to him, for what’s in this book as what Sondheim says. At one point, Sondheim mentions that Max looks like Geoffrey Rush, but Max responds in a post-interview add-on that most people mistook him for Nicholas Cage when he was younger. And we care, why?
Report From New York: A Welcome Return Into The Woods
It has been said that this New York production of Into the Woods merging heart, humor, energy and imagination is better than the original. But it is it’s own vision executed with an excellence that occurs when the finest talents invest themselves in creating a fresh vision. It is closing soon but will move part and parcel to nationwide tour almost immediately.
Cut Loose With Slow Burn Theatre’s Rousing Footloose
A hallmark of Slow Burn Theatre Company is its knack in finding new, mostly young talent and shaping those performers’ creativity. That approach—and this current round of talent—are on full display in the high energy, highly entertaining production of Footloose, now at the Broward Center.
Report From New York: Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt Questions Assimilation
Leopoldstadt’s breathtaking scene of a family’s debate whether to flee the Third Reich — ended by a knock on the door — is only one facet in Tom Stoppard’s borderline masterpiece that tracks a half-century in the lives of a bourgeoise Jewish family in Vienna as the world around them changes.
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