Sunday, January 12, 2025

POTUS Embraces Everything From Farce to Political Satire by Bill Hirschman

Timing, of course, is a crucial element in comedy. But it doesn’t hurt that it occurs when the social-political world around you conveniently coincides as it dies in Zoetic Stage's hysteri…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32AM
Sunday, January 5, 2025

Maltz Creates Frozen’s Olaf With The Magic Of Puppet And Actor by Bill Hirschman

The twin creators of the Olaf -- h is puppet designer and actor -- detail how the Frozen character is brought to life at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's current production The post Maltz Creates…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PM
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Anastasia is Gloriously More Entertaining Than Other Editions by Bill Hirschman

By Oline Cogdill The myth that the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova survived the Russian royal family’s execution by a group of Bolsheviks in 1918 has spawned numerous articles,…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:14PM
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

The Illusions of Theater Celebrated, Exposed in Dramaworks’ The Dresser by Bill Hirschman

Illusions – those we create for others, those ones we create for ourselves, those we create for survival – are at the heart of Palm Beach Dramaworks' laudatory yet merciless exposé The …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:53PM
Monday, December 23, 2024

MiND Escorts You Through 3rd Immersive: Lincoln Road Hustle by Bill Hirschman

Miami New Drama's third immersive Lincoln Road Hustle is mounted in, on and around the titular locale -- a logistically and artistically challenging tale reflecting the cultural and economic…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:18PM
Friday, December 20, 2024

Open a New Window in Handle With Care at West Boca Company by Bill Hirschman

1.7 million packages a day get lost or stolen. If it's your new hairdryer, it might not be so bad, but if the lost item is your dead relative’s body, that’s a completely different story.…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:24PM
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Joni Mitchell-Leonard Cohen Revue Freshly Re-Covers Precious Music Of Decades Ago by Bill Hirschman

The magic of Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen is that of a time machine. It instantly regenerates feelings and visions a half-century old as if they are…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:18PM
Monday, December 16, 2024

Once Again, Broadway’s Fifth Our Town Remains A Worthy Tale Despite Time And Place by Bill Hirschman

As the newest New York production of Our Town proves -- yet again over its 86 years –this acclaimed work is a reliable property whether it’s being done by this Broadway cast led by Jim P…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06AM
Saturday, December 14, 2024

End of a Trilogy, Or Is It? New City Players’ The Last Christmas by Bill Hirschman

New City Players; premiere The Last Christmas by Tyler Johnson Grimes is the supposed final installment in a trilogy of annual holiday comedies revolving around radio station WNCP in Fort La…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:36PM
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Once is Not Enough In ‘Once’ At The Maltz Jupiter Theatre by Bill Hirschman

People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Just ask the characters in Once – A Musical who would no doubt agree. At the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Once tells the story o…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Black Santa:  A Timely And Thoughtful Start To The Season by Bill Hirschman

City Theatre’s Black Santa peels the shiny veneer off the holiday season with its clever examination of unconscious racial bias present in America’s cultural traditions The post Black …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32PM
Monday, December 9, 2024

Did the Butler Really Do It? In ‘The Butler Did It’ At The Willow by Bill Hirschman

Produced by Curtain Call Playhouse,,, The Butler Did It is billed as “an evening of mystery, hoopla, and outrageous hijinks.” They’re not kidding, because it’s all that and more. The…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PM

Time Is A Crucial Element In Dramaworks’ Upcoming Return Of ‘The Dresser’ by Bill Hirschman

Time’s implacability and theater’s ephemerality seem inherently antithetical. Yet time is imbued several ways in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ upcoming production this month of the decades-ol…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48AM
Friday, December 6, 2024

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

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 rema…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:06PM
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Wick’s Joseph Production Is As Multi-Faceted As His Coat by Bill Hirschman

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, playing into next month at the Wick Theatre & Museum Club in Boca Raton, has something for everyone, or as Donny Osmond would tell you, it�…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:06PM
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Report From New York: Hills of California Intersects Ambition, Dreams & Family Relationships by Bill Hirschman

The Hills of California Intersects driving ambition, dreams and family relationships deteriorating over time; Catch it now before it closes next month because with a cast of 22 and a challen…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31AM
Thursday, November 21, 2024

SSC’s Third Beauty & The Beast Is Just As Fine As Earlier Ones by Bill Hirschman

Mere inches from you, the titular characters dance slowly and gracefully to the soothing title song in Area Stage Company’s (ASC) multi award-winning professional immersive and participato…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

‘Every Brilliant Thing’ At Gulfshore Playhouse Lists What Makes Life Worth Living by Bill Hirschman

Every Brilliant Thing at the Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples is a moving and often funny one-man show in which the Storyteller comes up with a list of “every brilliant thing” that makes li…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:02PM
Monday, November 18, 2024

Compelling Tale of Artistic Anxiety In Jonathan Larson’s Pre-Rent ‘tick, tick… BOOM!’ by Bill Hirschman

Jonathan Larson’s semi-autobiographical pre-Rent musical tick, tick…BOOM! compellingly injects us deep into the agonized guts of a young man teetering on the Great Divide of pursuing his…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31PM
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Gloves Come Off in The Long Weekend At Pigs Do Fly by Bill Hirschman

What happens when one unhappily married couple invites another unhappily married couple to spend a holiday weekend with them in their country home? As the claws come out, long-buried resentm…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AM
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Pompano Players Promises Future With Delightful I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change by Bill Hirschman

If I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, from The Pompano Players, a new resident theater company, is an indication of what’s to come, we have an exciting new theatrical organization t…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36PM
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

All Too Timely: The Outsider Is Political Farce In West Boca by Bill Hirschman

Just in time for a little after the election light-hearted fun comes the West Boca Theatre Company’s production of The Outsider, a farcical comedy by Paul Slade Smith that tells the story …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18PM
Monday, November 11, 2024

48th Carbonells Reward Broad Array — Dramas Yes, But Especially Lighter Pieces by Bill Hirschman

South Florida’s huge array of theatrical offerings – from musicals drawn from kid-friendly material to adult dramas based in the region’s various ethnicities – were recognized Monday…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54PM
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

It’s the Top: Sublime ‘Anything Goes’ Opens Gulfshore Playhouse’s new Baker Theatre by Bill Hirschman

Anything Goes is the just what it needed in our difficult times: upbeat and optimistic. It's celebratory tone fits the opening of the Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples first show in the newly op…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18PM
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Full Court Press In Gablestage’s King James Is As Much About Friendship As Basketball by Bill Hirschman

Trust us, the considerable verbal dribbling and turnovers in Rajiv Joseph’s season opener at Gablestage is only the top layer over the profound examination of the underlying defining theme…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12PM
Monday, November 4, 2024

Who Is Gaslighting Whom? In Reimagined Deceived at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre by Bill Hirschman

Anyone going to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Deceived hoping to see their parent’s version of Gaslight will be sorely disappointed. Because this new adaptation has a completely different …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:02PM
Sunday, November 3, 2024

Dramawork’s Lost In Yonkers Is Profound, Trenchant Drama by Bill Hirschman

The 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers with its intersection of culture and families shows Simon at his most profound and makes a fitting launch for Palm Beach Dramaworks’ 25th se…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18AM

Try To Remember A Little Differently At Island City by Bill Hirschman

 Hot off the heels of their outstanding 12th year comes Island City Stage’s 13th season opener, The Fantasticks, a delightful romantic dramady billed as the South Florida premiere of “…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:31AM
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Deceived At Maltz Jupiter Theatre Is a Lesson in Gaslighting With Gaby Tortoledo by Bill Hirschman

“I love thrillers. Both as spectator and an actor,” enthuses Gaby Tortoledo who gets to explore it as the heroine in Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s current play Deceived through Nov. 10. The …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Laufer’s The Last Yiddish Speaker Examines Disturbing Socio-Political Nightmare by Bill Hirschman

The Last Yiddish Speaker, Deborah Zoe Laufer’s season opener at Theatre Lab in Boca Raton is a chilling, fast-paced drama with a streak of magical realism, as a Jewish father and daughter …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Storytelling In Zoetic’s Pillowman Filled With Chills, Horror And Laughter by Bill Hirschman

Zoetic Stage's production of The Pillowman lives up to this modern masterpiece’s unique amalgam of a terrifying nightmare and ebon black comedy. It is built around at least a half-dozen di…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:06PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime