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Milk and Honey Is Charming Musical, But Very Much the ’60s

Unabashed charm is not a quality one associates with modern musicals, but it is the predominant and reasonably satisfying virtue if you take the Wick Theatre’s time machine back 61 years to the opening of Milk and Honey, the first full-length musical by promising newcomer Jerry Herman.

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Bill Hirschman
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GableStage’s Comedy “Boca” Would Gladden The Golden Girls

GableStage takes a break from race relations and Arthur Miller to create Boca, a chuckle-fest as well-constructed and skillfully executed as any episode of The Golden Girls, the Mary Tyler Moore show or a Carol Burnett skit.

Posted on April 28, 2022 by Bill Hirschman
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Avi Hoffman Pays Tribute To Theater Icon Joseph Papp

Avi Hoffman is ensuring that proper homage is paid to Joe Papp, the visionary who intersected art and community by making theater accessible to the general public in comprehensibility, neighborhood performances and free admission in “Joe Papp at the Ballroom,” a one-man musical world premiere playing a limited run at GableStage.

Posted on December 19, 2021 by Bill Hirschman
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GableStage Reopens Eclectic Season With Adler’s The Price

Echoing the resurrection of local theater, the new artistic director Bari Newport will inaugurate GableStage’s 2021-2022 season in November directing the late Joseph Adler’s detailed plan for The Price — the first title in an eclectic season featuring a musical and world premieres.

Posted on July 22, 2021 by Bill Hirschman
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GableStage’s 2021-2022 Season

GableStage’s 23rd season under its new producing artistic director Bari Newport will have more productions and additional performances in what is currently planned to be offered in full houses. The schedule is unveiled here.

Posted on July 22, 2021 by Bill Hirschman
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Maltz’s Brighton Beach Memoirs Makes Strong Memories

Home is the place where they have to take you in, to paraphrase Robert Frost. It’s also the place where every family dynamic plays out — love, resentment, growing pains, conflict, chaos, worry and secrets — as shown in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s superb production of Brighton Beach Memoirs, smoothly directed with a first-class cast, the Maltz production hits all the high notes

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Bill Hirschman
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Upcoming Brighton Beach Memoirs Is Different Neil Simon

With the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s upcoming Brighton Beach Memoirs, director J. Barry Lewis says people need to “come forward with a new perspective on what a Neil Simon play is, not just what you think.”

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Bill Hirschman
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GableStage Mounts Its Unique Passionate Take On Indecent

GableStage’s rendering of Paula Vogel’s Indecent is freshly distinctive from Rebecca Taichman’s New York staging and from the rapturously received version that Palm Beach Dramaworks delivered last season. It’s not better or worse; it is its own. And its quality takes a back seat to no one.

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Bill Hirschman
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Indecent Exemplifies What Theater Can Be & Why We Go

Palm Beach Dramaworks’ Indecent is precisely the kind of thrilling evening that glories in what theater can be – a unique art form that cannot be matched by anything on film, anything hanging on a wall, anything reproducible on an mp3 or an mp4.

Posted on October 21, 2018 by Bill Hirschman
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Vogel Encourages Dramaworks To Use Indecent Script As Blueprint Not Straitjacket

Paula Vogel welcomes, even celebrates how imaginative directors and committed casts use her work as a starting blueprint for their own explorations. She is pleased that this week the team at Palm Beach Dramaworks will unveil their particular vision of Indecent, just one of 20 productions that have been or are being mounted around the country last season and this season.

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Bill Hirschman
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