2,658 stories by "Bill Hirschman"
Alex Gonzalez is "thrilled to be back where I belong " creating art and building something meaningful through theater, specifically, building Latiné Theater Lab, one of South Florida's new…
Island City Stage's production of Fat Ham last month was funny, topical, engaging. But in its co-production at GableStage this weekend, four weekends of performances and two subsequent weeks…
Actors' Playhouse's thrilling theater version of The Girl on the Train -- bringing voyeurism to a new level -- has a history, .
The post Truth Does Not Stop In Actors' Playhouse's The Girl o…
Time, carrying the inevitability of mortality and exposing complex truths about our past, is the central vendor of the title in Zoetic Stage's overwhelming drama The Comeuppance about a high…
The challenge and courage of World War II " delivered through music and imagery of the era " provide the center of a one-night special event in Miami Beach on Saturday " The Eyes of the Worl…
During My Way at the Wick,, a singer says it's the "soundtrack of your life." She's right, because this Frank Sinatra tribute is full of music enjoyed on romantic dates, at weddings, and may…
The men in Sweet Charity Hope Valentine's life may not be smart enough to fall in love with her, but any audience member wise enough to see Gulfshore Playhouse's production will fall instant…
Flight is an apt metaphor for life. Indeed, our existence includes highs and lows, But thankfully, life also presents moments of love, levity, and "smooth sailing," (or flying, in this case)…
Anyone not already familiar with t Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? had better hold onto their seat because it's a bumpy ride indeed. The intimate space in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre is ideal…
The tense, barbed, well-crafted dark comedy Dry Powder at Boca Stage deals with an age-old question: For what price would you sell your soul? If you don't believe in souls, substitute the wo…
"You will sit in a swivel chair and the show will take place all around you, all over the park," Director Ronnie Larsen said about its upcoming free outdoor theater production of The Sound o…
Dan Clancy's The Timekeepers underscores we share more in common with each other than the differences that separate us. Two concentration camp prisoners " a Jew and a non-Jewish gay find dis…
Life was not kind to Billie Holiday, but she persevered, channeling her pain into her singing. Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill at Gulfshore Playhouse puts her in her element: onstage at …
Looking for somewhere to spend an enchanting afternoon or evening? Then look no further than South Pacific, now playing at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center. With an almost perfect produ…
The Church family does not put the fun in dysfunctional. This bothersome trio play out their convoluted story from the comfort of their living room in Pigs Do Fly Productions' play, Painting…
The Florida Cappies Inc. have announced the nominees from 28 Broward and Palm Beach schools recognition excellence Tuesday, May 20 at 7 p.m. in the Au-Rene Theater at the4 Broward Center for…
M Ensemble's current revival of Knock Me A Kiss that it mounted in 2014 has different echoes in 2025.
The post M Ensemble's Revival Knock Me A Kiss Is Present Day Look at People in Harlem Re…
Thirty 30 years ago, Mark St. Germain wrote a play Camping With Henry and Tom fictionalizing an actual meeting among Ford, Edison and President Harding. Given the politics, religion, racism,…
Fat Ham, which tells of a young gay man at his Black family's contentious backyard barbeque, is basically a huge grin. The fact that the ingenious plot intentionally echoes Hamlet does not c…
If all of us liked the same things, it would be a truly dull world, but occasionally, like in Sylvia produced by Curtain Call Playhouse playing at the Willow Theatre, you have to wonder what…
How do deeply held beliefs " religious, social, moral -- guide us, persist, deteriorate or see us mutate as time and events challenge their truth and erode the bond among those raised on th…
For some, grief is a long haul, the raw pangs never subsiding, but thriving, almost dictating a person's daily actions even years later. At least that's the way it is for Jack Jordan, the ce…
By Bill Hirschman One benefit of aging is the ability to see where we came from, where we have travelled, contemplate our past decisions, but most significantly to wisely re-evaluate the mea…
By Mariah Reed Waitress follows the story of Jenna, a talented pie maker working in a small-town diner who is trapped in an unhappy marriage. Haunted by her mother's legacy of hardship…
Over a decade, Theatre Lab has built a reputation for exploring some of the newest scripts, visions and techniques in the field. But this month's The Happiness Gym as part of its annual fest…
