Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Torch Song Is Not What We Expected At Plays of Wilton
Fair warning to anyone going to The Foundry for Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song because they want to see a play about a drag queen. Other than the lead works in drag for a living, but he could just as easily be a server, or a sales clerk, or a teacher, as is his on-again, off-again boyfriend. As it turns out, that’s the point. More on this later.
New City Players to Receive Carbonells’ Jan McArt Award
New City Players, the vest-pocket theater company that has consistently produced memorable work since 2014 in Broward County, has been named the recipient of the first Jan McArt Award from the Carbonells Awards program. The award recognizes significant achievement by a small theater.
ASC’s Immersive Tarzan Musical Surrounds You In The Jungle
Area Stage Company’s (production is not your childhood Tarzan. Yet it is still the story and music you know and love. This gripping immersive staging surrounds you with the world of the show. The result is a visceral experience that reimagines the jungle not just as a set, but as a space you physically inhabit.
Big Ideas Abound in Main Street Players’ Revolutionists
When assassin Charlotte Corday declares, “We are all in a play that someone else is writing,” we know we’re stepping into a world steeped in existential tension. We brace ourselves for big ideas—and Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists delivers. But it also surprises, infusing sharp wit and heartfelt humility into its bold exploration of the human condition in crisis running at Main Street Players.
Plaza Suite May Be 60 Years Old, But It Hasn’t Lost Its Charm
Plaza Suite may be more than sixty years old, but it hasn’t lost its charm. Little about it feels stale or outdated. Pembroke Pines Theatre for the Performing Arts’ (PPTOPA) current professional production breathes new life into Simon’s comedy and makes it feel fresh.
USA Bow For Step By Step Deals With Friendship, Loss, And Middle-Age Fears.
Step by Step, making its American premiere at Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, is a comedy with an all-female cast dealing with friendship, loss, and middle-age fears.
Distinctively Moving ‘Spy For Spy’ Engages With Unconventional Treatment
You never know what you’ll see when at Kutumba Theatre Project’s Spy for Spy. And that’s a good thing. Predictability causes us to disengage and leave the theater less than inspired. This production is an arresting depiction of individual moments of import that alternately shatter the soul and elicit bursts of laughter.
Profile: Dramaworks’ 25 Years Striving For Quality, Connecting and Staying in the Black
The best theater profoundly affects audience & the artists simultaneously. Over 25 years, Palm Beach Dramaworks has accrued acclaim from audiences & donors for quality, respect in social-political fundraising corridors, and business standards keeping them in the black. Tracking their growth provides lessons for fledgling and experienced companies.
Racism and a Dozen Other Themes Dissected 160 Years Apart in The Confederates
The complex confluence of resonating past and present in Dominque Morisseau’s dense brilliant script interweaves with strong performances in New City Players’ well-titled The Confederates.
Esteemed Theater-Film Critic Hap Erstein Died Saturday
The theater community, our community as a whole has lost a force who helped forge all of them for decades. Hap Erstein, 74, died Saturday at an Aventura hospital where he had been since Monday when he collapsed in a movie theater where he had gone to do a review.
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