Tag Archives: Conor Walton

Folk-County Music & Soaring Actress Power Actors’ Playhouse’s Bright Star

Actors Playhouse’s lively Bright Star is a folk-country fable replete with spirited dances, classic character types, a genuine respect for everyday folk, and, ultimately, a moral about bedrock virtues persevering over profound tragedy. But this production’s strengths are its banjo-and-fiddle bluegrass score and its soaring performance by Kimberly Doreen Burns.

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Alex Jorth, Alexandra Van Hasselt, Barry Tarallo, Bright Star, Charity Van Tassel, Conor Walton, David Arisco, Eric Alsford, Jim Ballard, Kimberly Doreen Burns, Teddy Warren | Leave a comment

A Musical Beauty ‘Pageant’ Like None You’ve Seen – Probably

The musical comedy Pageant at Island City Stage delivers a lush array of talented contestants in carefully coifed wigs and gowns — except they’re all men.

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Christopher Calhoun, Conor Walton, Kevin Veloz, Larry Buzzeo, Marcus Davis, Matthew Buffalo, Michael Scott Ross, Ron Hutchins | Leave a comment

Now & Then Proudly Affirms Gay Romance Is Like Any Other

Now & Then, a world premiere musical in Wilton Manors, is a quiet gentle love story told with an inventive twist. But it’s a tale tracing the episodes of an arc so familiar that it might flirt with being boring — except for three redeeming aspects: a lovely score, a time bending book and making the lovers in this very traditional romance a gay couple.

Posted on September 14, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Cody Jenkins, Conor Walton, Daniel Manning, Matt McClure, Now & Then, Ronnie Larsen, Tim Evanicki, Wilton Theater Factory | Leave a comment

So Fla Theatre League Announces Remy Awards

Unsung heroes who provide outstanding service behind the scenes in local theater will receive recognition this year from the South Florida Theatre League’s 2018 Remy Awards.

Posted on August 3, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged ACT of Davie, Clara Lyzniak, Conor Walton, Fern Katz, Florida Children's Theatre, Larry Fields, Main Street Players, Mark Traverso, Rachel Chin, Remy Awards, Scott Roberts, South Florida Theatre League, Storycrafters Studio, Tony Finstrom | Leave a comment

A Last Look Back At 2017, A Fine South Florida Theater Season

One pleasure of a theater critic’s job are these year-end retrospectives that require looking back at reviews and be reminded, “Oh, yeah, that was really great. And right, there was that. And how could I forget that one?”

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Anne-Marie Cusson, Area Stage Company, Bruce Linser, Cindy Pearce, City Theatre, Clay Cartland, Conor Walton, David Arisco, David Kwiat, Elena Maria Garcia, Elijah Word, GableStage, Greg Duffy, Gregg Weiner, Ground Up and Rising, Hannah Benitez, Island City Stage, J. Barry Lewis, Jean Josieu, Jessica E. Schulte, Jodi Dellaventura, Joseph Adler, Julie Kleiner, Karen Stephens, Kevin Black, Kevin Reilley, Kimberley Dawn Smith, Lindsay Bell, Main Street Players, Mallory Newbrough, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Margaret M. Ledford, Michael Amico, Michael McClain, Michael Ursua, New City Players, Nicholas Richberg, Niki Fridh, outre theatre company, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Patrick Fitzwater, Shane Tanner, Slow Burn Theatre Company, Stuart Meltzer, Theatre Lab, Thinking Cap Theatre, Vicki Lewis, Wick Theatre, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

‘It Shoulda Been You’ Spotlights A Major Talent At Playhouse

The temptation is to announce that ‘a star is born’ in Actors’ Playhouse’s production of the musical It Shoulda Been You. But that would be mildly insulting to the fact that Cindy Pearce has been working on local stages about 14 years, most memorably as Penelope Pennywise in Slow Burn Theatre’s Urinetown.

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Alexander Zenoz, Cindy Pearce, Conor Walton, David Arisco, David Nagy, Erica Lustig, Gabrielle Graham, It Shoulda Been You, Jeni Hacker, Marcia McClain, Margot Moreland, Mark A. Harmon, Michael H. Small, Oscar Cheda, Tim Dolan | Leave a comment

Slow Burn’s Xanadu Skillfully Follows A Middling Muse

Slow Burn Theatre has certainly captured Xanadu’s vibe in the company’s spirited, stupidly happy revival of its own 2012 production, which opened last weekend in Aventura and which will soon tour Delray Beach and Fort Lauderdale

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Conor Walton, Douglas Carter Beane, Elijah Word, Emily Tarallo, Larry Buzzeo, Lindsey Corey, Lisa Grossman Comess, Olivia Newton-John, Patrick Fitzwater, Rick Pena, Sabrina Lynn Gore, Sharyn Peoples, Xanadu | Leave a comment

What Kind Of Year Was It? Our Critics’ “Best Of” 2016 Lists

Critics and award judges have been talking about it for weeks: The sheer amount of high quality work has made evaluating the last 12 months unusually challenging, but also an opportunity to remember one of the most rewarding calendar years in recent memory. So here’s a supremely subjective stab by all three critics here at Florida Theater On Stage at recognizing the shows and performances that stood out from a pack of productions.

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney, Actors Playhouse, After, Alex Alvarez, An Act of God, Andre' L Gainey, Anna Lise Jensen, Arts Garage, Arturo Rossi, Avery Sommers, Aygemang Clay, Barbara Bradshaw, Bessie Smith: The Devils’ Music, Betsy Graver, Buyer & Cellar, Charlie Cinnamon, Chris Crawford, Clay Cartland, Conor Walton, Dan Knechtges, David Arisco, David Nagy, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Elizabeth Dimon, Evening Star Productions, Feeding The Bear, Florida Grand Opera, GableStage, Genie Croft, Gregg Weiner, Gretchen Porro, Ground Up and Rising, Hand To God, Helen Gregory, I Love A Piano, Island City Stage, James Brennan, Jeni Hacker, Jim Gibbons, Jodi Dellaventura, John Harden II, Joseph Adler, Julie Kleiner Davis, Karen Stephens, Keith Garsson, Kevin Black, Kristian Bikic, Larry Buzzeo, Laura Hodos, Lindsey Corey, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Louis Tyrrell, Lourelene Snedeker, Mad Cat Theatre Company, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marco Ramirez, Margery Lowe, Maria Elena Garcia, Mark Duncan, Matt Loehr, Matthew Korinko, Maureen Anderman, Me and My Girl, Mia Matthews, Michael Aman, Michael McKeever, Million Dollar Quartet, Mud, Murdered To Death, New Theatre, Nicholas Richberg, Nicole Stodard, Niki Fridh, Our Lady of 121st Street, outre theatre company, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Parallel Lives Chris Crawford, Passion, Patrick Fitzwater, Paul Tei, Perfect Arrangement, Peter Galman, Peter Lovello, Putting It Together, Rapture Blister Burn, Ricky J. Martinez, Ron Hutchins, Roof, Rudi Goblen, Sarah Gracel Anderson, Shein Mompremier, Simply Simone: The Music of Nina Simone, Skye Whitcomb, Slow Burn Theatre Company, Smoke, Sondheim On Sondheim, Spring Awakening, Stuart Meltzer, The Flick, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Minister’s Wife, The Nether, The Passenger, The Realistic Joneses, The Royale, The Soul of Motor City, The Wick Theatre, The World Goes Round, Theatre At Arts Garage, Theatre Lab at Florida Atlantic University, Thinking Cap Theatre, This Random World, Three Sisters of Weekhauken, Toddra Brunson, Tom Wahl, Wesley Slade, West Side Story, William Hayes | Leave a comment

Outre Delivers Harrowing Edition Of The Normal Heart

The level of anger, helplessness and sorrow rises inexorably along with the death toll like flood waters from a storm surge in Outré Theatre Company’s shattering production of The Normal Heart. The play documenting the AIDS epidemic in New York City during the early 1980s is depicted with scorching and excoriating emotional honesty.

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Ben Prayz, Christopher Mitchell, Conor Walton, Doug Wetzel, Elizabeth Price, Eytan Deray, Larry Kramer, Lawrence Buzzeo, Michael H. Small, outre theatre company, Robert Fritz, Seth Trucks, Showtime Performing Arts Theatre, The Normal Heart | Leave a comment

Outre’s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is, Well, Bloody Good

With bracing anger, profuse profanity and biting satire that is more slashing than surgical, Outre Theatre Company’s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson will not to be everyone’s taste but for those whose preference run more to Rent than Mamma Mia, this is your acidic cup of tea.

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Christina Groom, Conor Walton, Elvin Negron, Erica Mendez, Geoff Short, Jennipher Murphy, Kaitlyn O'Neill, Kristen Long, Leo Valentine Kaplan, Michael Mena, Noah Levine, outre theatre company, Rick Pena, Robert Johnston, Sabrina Lynn Gore, Skye Whitcomb | 1 Comment