Tag Archives: Aurin Squire

Report From New York: A Wonderful World Begun In Miami Bows On Broadway

To begin with, yes, A Wonderful World is an exuberant trumpet call of a musical tracking the life of the legendary Louis Armstrong that will entertains tens of thousands of people as it remains a welcome option for Broadway audiences likely for years. That said, if you are looking for an in-depth incisive inquiry into the complex artist, this is not it.

Posted on December 6, 2024 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged A Wonderful World, Aurin Squire, Christopher Renshaw, James Monroe Iglehart, Miami New Drama | Leave a comment

Reinvigorated Music Reigns In Louis Armstrong Bio Premiere A Wonderful World At MiND

There are stunning actors in this premiere A Wonderful World, breath-taking choreography and visuals in this life of jazz legend Louis Armstrong as he navigates a racist world and his own fallibilities. But it’s the decades-old brass-fueled music, reinvigorated and pulsating in celebratory revels and soul-scorching ballads, that drive this achievement at Miami New Drama.

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged A Wonderful World, Allison Semmes, Annastasia Victory, Aurin Squire, Christina Sajous, Christopher Renshaw, Dori Waymer, Juson Williams, Louis Armstrong, Miami New Drama, Michael O. Mitchell, Nicole Henry, Stephen G. Anthony | Leave a comment

The Drama Behind The Rebirth of Miami New Drama’s Satchmo Musical “A Wonderful World”

The creation of a musical always contains more drama than what ends up on the stage. But then there is the anguish and celebration that commandeered the pre-virus birth and now this winter’s resurrection of A Wonderful World that closed the night before it was to open at Miami New Drama.

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged A Wonderful World, Aurin Squire, Christopher Renshaw, Juson Williams, Louis Armstrong, Michel Hausmann, Nicholas Richberg, Thomas E. Rodgers Jr. | Leave a comment

Seven Deadly Sins Is Return To Live Theater In Miami

Nine months into the country’s battle against COVID-19, Miami New Drama and its boundlessly imaginative artistic director, Michel Hausmann, have figured out a way to turn vice into virtue, exploring the seven deadly sins in an ambitious return to live theater beginning Nov. 27.

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Aurin Squire, Caleb Scott, Carmen Pelaez, Christopher Renshaw, Dael Orlandersmith, Gerald McCullouch, Gregg Weiner, Hilary Bettis, Jessica Farr, Mia Matthews, Miami New Drama, Michel Hausmann, Moises Kaufman, Nicholas Richberg, Renata Eastlick, Rogelio Martinez, Sandi Stock, Stephen G. Anthony | Leave a comment

Miami New Drama Tunes Up Debut Of Wonderful World — A Louis Armstrong Bio-Musical

Energy suffuses rehearsals for Miami New Drama’s world premiere musical about Louis Armstrong A Wonderful World – not a revue but a highly-theatrical biography in which Armstrong’s famous numbers are infused as part of the plot or as character-revealing reveries.

Posted on February 29, 2020 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged A Wonderful World, Aurin Squire, Christopher Renshaw, Juson Williams, Louis Armstrong, Miami New Drama, Michel Hausmann | Leave a comment

‘Cowboys’ Confessions Tells Of Magic City’s Not So Golden Days

The world premiere of Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy, a fact-based but stylistically executed play at Miami New Drama from filmmaker Billy Corben and screenwriter Aurin Squire, captures Miami’s drug-obsessed past through the eyes of a hitman.

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Aurin Squire, Billy Corben, Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy, Michel Hausmann, Nicholas Richberg, Stephen G. Anthony, Yancey Arias | Leave a comment