Tag Archives: Broward Center

Dickens Nailed It: South Florida Theater Two Years In Review

If Dickens’ opening line in A Tale of Two Cities has become a trite cliché through overuse it has become a painfully accurate truism about theater over the past two years, especially South Florida theater. Crippling loss and inspiring resurrection. Surrender and perseverance. And , now, the Covid threat has reasserted. But looking back on those two years delivers a testament worth celebrating and learning from.

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Adrienne Arsht Center, Bari Newport, Broward Center, Carbonell Awards, Cecilia Snow, Clay Cartland, Clive Cholerton, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Colin McPhillamy, Darius J. Manuel, Elijah Word, GableStage, Gabriell Salgado, Heather Jane Rolff, Island City Stage, Joe Adler, Karen Stephens, Kimmi Johnson, Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, M Ensemble Company, Main Street Players, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Margaret M. Ledford, Miami New Drama, Michael McKeever, Nicole Stodard, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Peter Haig, Slow Burn Theatre Company, Stuart Meltzer, Theatre Lab, Timothy Michael Quinn, William Hayes | Leave a comment

Coming: Hamlet in the A.M., MNM Gets Closer Than Ever, Lupone Sends A Live Concert

With exploratory baby steps, South Florida theater companies are staging events: A cut-down Hamlet by the Shakespeare Troupe, a filmed full production of Closer Than Ever by MNM, and Patti LuPone in a livestreamed concert for the Broward Center.

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Aaron Bower, Broward Center, Chiz Chisholm, Christine Chavers, Clifford Michael Spulock, Colette Rice, Colin McPhillamy, Elijah Word, Emily Tarallo, Eric Alsford, Jeremy Quinn, Johnbarry Green, Jonathan Van Dyke, Karen Stephens, MNM Theatre Company, Peter Wayne Galman, Rafe Martinez, Renee Elizabeth Turner, Seth Trucks, Shakespeare Troupe, Shelley Keelor, Stephen G. Anthony, Steve Carroll, Todd Allen Durkin | Leave a comment

Act Two For SoFla Theater: A 2-Part Portrait One Month In

PART TWO: One month into the nation-wide shutdown of live communal theater due to COVID-19, South Florida companies, like those in so many other regions, are trying to write Act Two with little clue how Act Three will play out. In this first of two parts, leaders from local companies and venues a limn this tale of confident hope and chilling fear, cold balance sheets with seven digits in the red, and blue sky imagining what theater will look like in two, three, 18 months.

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Andrew Kato, Andy Rogow, Arsht Center, Barbara Stein, Bree-Anna Obst, Broward Center, Christopher Demos-Brown, COVID-19, David Arisco, Island City Stage, Judith Mitchell, Kelley Shanley, Kravis Center, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marilynn Wick, Miami New Drama, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Michael McKeever, Michael Spring, Michel Hausmann, Nicole Stodard, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Patrick Fitzwater, The Wick Theatre, Theatre Lab, Thinking Cap Theatre, William Hayes, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

Act Two For SoFla Theater: A 2-Part Portrait One Month In

PART ONE: One month into the nation-wide shutdown of live communal theater due to COVID-19, South Florida companies, like those in so many other regions, are trying to write Act Two with little clue how Act Three will play out. In this first of two parts, leaders from local companies and venues a limn this tale of confident hope and chilling fear, cold balance sheets with seven digits in the red, and blue sky imagining what theater will look like in two, three, 18 months.

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features, General | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Andrew Kato, Andy Rogow, Arsht Center, Barbara Stein, Bree-Anna Obst, Broward Center, Christopher Demos-Brown, COVID-19, David Arisco, Island City Stage, Judith Mitchell, Kelley Shanley, Kravis Center, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marilynn Wick, Miami New Drama, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Michael McKeever, Michael Spring, Michel Hausmann, Nicole Stodard, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Patrick Fitzwater, The Wick Theatre, Theatre Lab, Thinking Cap Theatre, William Hayes, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

Original Diego & Drew Come Out 2nd Time at the Broward Center

In 2016, the interactive gay wedding theatrical experience Diego & Drew Say I Do had a successful run at the Broward Center. Now it’s back for a second go ’round. It has grown up just a bit with a stronger cast and better comic timing throughout.

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Broward Center, Cesar Arguelles, Christina Groom, Diego and Drew Say I Do, Eric O'Keefe, Jennifer Sierra-Grobbelaar, Jordon Armstrong, Luis Ablaer, Madelin Marchant, Mark Kroczybski, Matt May, Michelle Caravia, Sabrina Lynn Gore, Steven Chambers | Leave a comment

Obsession, Lust And Passion Rule At Measure’s Murder Ballad

Lust, anger and anguish pour out of urban millennials with like molten liquid gushing from an open fire hydrant in the new Measure For Measure Theatre’s production of the chamber rock opera Murder Ballad at the Broward Center

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Broward Center, Christopher J. Alvarez, Daimien J. Matherson, Eric O'Keefe, Measure For Measure Theatre, Murder Ballad, Nikki Dunn, Sabrina Lynn Gore | Leave a comment

“Wicked” Is Still Wickedly Entertaining At Broward Center

The highly entertaining production of Wicked isn’t just defying gravity—it’s defying expectations. It’s easy for long-time theatergoers to become a bit jaded about seeing the umpteenth tour of a musical that you think you’ve seen too many times already. But any qualms about Wicked, now at the Broward Center tare quickly dissipated.

Posted on February 17, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Broadway Across America, Broward Center, Wicked | Leave a comment

Theaters Rolling Out The Titles For 2018-2019 Season, Part 1

If it’s February, then theater companies are taking advantage of the visiting snowbirds presence to announce what they hope will be an enticing slate of titles for the 2018-19 season.

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Arsht Center, Broadway Across Miami, Broward Center, Florida Grand Opera, Kravis Center, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Palm Beach Opera, Slow Burn Theatre Company, Thinking Cap Theatre, Wick Theatre | Leave a comment

Hamilton, Evan Hansen Headline ’18-19 Tour Season In Broward

Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen – two of the most critically acclaimed and fantastically popular musicals of the past decade – headline the 2018-2019 Broadway Across America season slated for the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in General | Tagged Anastasia, Broadway Across America, Broadway Across Fort Lauderdale, Broward Center, Hamilton, The King and I | Leave a comment