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Sunday, May 17, 2026

Dial M For Murder Enjoyable From Curtain To Curtain Call by Bill Hirschman

Actors’ Playhouse’s flawless Dial M For Murder, readapted from the orginal play, is stylish and enjoyable from curtain to curtain call. The post Dial M For Murder Enjoyable From Curtain …

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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Main Street Players’ ‘Kevin and the River Flan’ Engages Hope and Humor To Deal with Darkness by Bill Hirschman

The title character in Brandon Urrutia’s intriguing play, Kevin and the River Flan from Main Street Players question his worth and whether to carry on. Thankfully, This isn’t a play that…

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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Wick Theatre Goes “Bang Bang”  With Mackie-Clad ‘Cher Show’ by Bill Hirschman

Shamelessly borrowing from the title of one of Cher’s biggest songs, The Cher Show, at The Wick Theatre, closes their 12th season not with a whimper, but with a “Bang Bang.” Fans of th…

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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Pompano Players’ Enthusiasm & Skill Power Fresh Take In Side By Side By Sondheim Revue by Bill Hirschman

Acting through a song is precisely the supreme virtue in Pompano Players’ Side by Side by Sondheim. Savor a superbly delivered gift from full-throated yet textured voices who provide sligh…

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Stuart Meltzer To Receive The Carbonell’s Prestigious George Abbott Award by Bill Hirschman

Stuart Meltzer, who changed the face of Miami theater leading City Theatre and Zoetic Stage, has been named the recipient of the Carbonell’s 2026 George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achiev…

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Sunday, May 10, 2026

Arshties & Cappies Train High School Theater Artists & Critics by Bill Hirschman

The Arshties, celebrating its first year, and the Cappies, celebrating its 24th, will hold galas this month recognizing their training and encouraging high school artists and critics. The po…

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Thursday, May 7, 2026

My Take On: More Reviews of New York City Plays & Musicals by Bill Hirschman

OUR REVIEWS OF SCHMIGDOON, THE LOST BOYS, SEAGULL: TRUE STORY, TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK), FALLEN WOMEN, MONTE CRISTO, THE RECEPTIONIST The post My Take On: More Reviews of…

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Monday, May 4, 2026

Zoetic Stage’s Power of Storytelling Drives Hard To Decode Moses by Bill Hirschman

The unique magic of skilled storytelling is truly the compelling virtue of Zoetic Stage’s engaging drama Moses. But this observer wrestled in vain to find, let alone follow, the propelling…

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Thursday, April 30, 2026

Kim Ehly’s Baby GirL’s Play To Return As Velvet Green Summer by Bill Hirschman

Family isn’t just something you’re born into or adopted into – it’s something you build and encompasses the people you love and who love you. Kim Ehly’s celebrated play, Velvet Gre…

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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Carbonell’s Zink & Erstein Scholarship Recipients Named by Bill Hirschman

The recipients have been announced for the Carbonell’s Jack Zink and Hap Erstein Memorial Scholarships recognizing students’ commitment to theater or journalism. The award was created as…

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Monday, April 27, 2026

FPTA Statewide Pro Auditions May 16-18 at FAU Boca Raton by Bill Hirschman

Florida’s largest in-person audition for both Equity and non-Equity performers is set for May 16-18 in Boca Raton. The annual event by the Florida Professional Theatres Association hosts s…

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Friday, April 24, 2026

Odds Are Riverside’s 9 To 5 Musical Will Delight Film’s Fans by Bill Hirschman

Fans of the movie 9 to 5 will be delighted by 9 to 5: The Musical, playing through May 10 at the Riverside Theatre, The characters you remember and the premise of three working women coping …

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

M Ensemble’s Searching for Willie Lynch Crosses Eras to Explore Inherited Trauma by Bill Hirschman

Time, memory and history overlap in Layon Gray's semi-surrealist Searching for Willie Lynch for M Ensemble exploring the legacy of the infamous Willie Lynch speech twhere characters from di…

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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Hundreds of High School Students Nominated For Local Cappies Theater Awards by Bill Hirschman

For those who think theater has no future because of the perception that young people have little interest in the art form, witness how the work of literally hundreds upon hundreds of Browar…

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Friday, April 17, 2026

Miami New Drama's The Zionists Digs Even More Broadly Into Effectiveness of Debate by Bill Hirschman

Yes, The Zionists: A Family Storm provides an incisive and fair examination of the clashing issues of Jews' and Palestinians' rights to call Israel home. But that comprehensive inquiry in th…

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Thursday, April 16, 2026

Gulfshore's 'Dear Jack, Dear Louise': Review Written as Letter About Epistolary Play by Bill Hirschman

Though it may seem obvious to say, Dear Jack, Dear Louise is itself a love letter to both love and letters at the Gulfshore Playhouse, inspired by the playwright's parents, who met and court…

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Slow Burn's Vigorous Hairspray As Fresh and Relevant As Ever by Bill Hirschman

Hairspray isn't a "new" musical anymore. But with director Patrick Fitzwater at the helm of this Slow Burn Theatre Co. production, Hairspray is as fresh and even more relevant as when it lan…

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Monday, April 13, 2026

Theater Lab's INFERNA: Traditional Indoctrination Doesn't Deal With Sexual Abuse by Bill Hirschman

We all have scripts. In her INFERNA at Theatre Lab playwright'actress Joanna Castle Miller says they are values and mores inculcated since childhood especially by religion.  But sometimes…

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Saturday, April 11, 2026

Visionary Theater Leader Louis Tyrrell Dies, Leaving A Legacy of Contemporary Challenging Art by Bill Hirschman

Louis Tyrrell, one of the core visionaries transforming South Florida theater from safe predictable fare to a birthplace for new plays challenging intellect as well as emotion, died Friday a…

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No Bull: Bridge Across The Pond's Look At Women's Movement by Bill Hirschman

Before Suffs or Liberation looking at women's rights movement, Bull in a China Shop gives another historical view of the fight of more than a century ago, now being staged by Bridge Across t…

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Friday, April 10, 2026

Kimberly Akimbo May Focus On Doomed Teenager, But Show Vibrates With Humor & Life by Bill Hirschman

The musical Kimberley Akimbo at the Broward Center may focus on a teenager with a disease aging her four times faster than normal, but the evening is suffused with life-affirming qualities a…

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Thursday, April 9, 2026

Neil Diamond Musical Reveals Troubled Man Behind Parade of Greatest Hits by Bill Hirschman

, A Beautiful Noise, the Neil Diamond Musical at the Kravis Center but coming to the Arsht, is a visually flashy, high-energy parade of more than two dozen of the acclaimed singer/songwrite…

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Island City: Writing Is Easy; You Just Open a Vein and Bleed by Bill Hirschman

Gracefully directed by Bruce Linser with an expert cast of three, Everything Beautiful Happens at Night explores the creative process, the secrets we keep that bind us/handcuff us/prevent…

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Sunday, April 5, 2026

Timely Warning Courses Through Dramaworks' Shattering 'The Crucible' by Bill Hirschman

Fear becomes tactile in Palm Beach Dramaworks' shattering The Crucible because the nightmare on display is as much a mirror of our times as a tale of the witchcraft purge in 1692 Salem. The …

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Friday, April 3, 2026

Developing New Works In Two Festivals: Theatre Lab's Owl & New City Players' Lauder Made by Bill Hirschman

Theater lovers in South Florida are about to experience double the pleasure with two festivals of new work this month. The Second Annual Owl New Play Festival in Boca Raton kicks off on Apri…

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Thursday, April 2, 2026

My Take On: Reviews of NYC Shows Including Dog Day Afternoon by Bill Hirschman

A fourth edition of new feature "My Take On::" Short reviews from New York shows by Nunzio Michael Lupo, veteran journalist and an insightful appraiser of the arts. Some of these are still r…

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Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Sound the Trumpets for Camelot at The Wick Theatre by Bill Hirschman

There are musicals we enjoy, and then there are the ones we feel compelled to tell everyone within earshot about, so sound the trumpets because we're convinced you'll love the old-school rev…

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Sunday, March 29, 2026

Small Town Couples Explore Relationships In Riverside Theatre's 'Almost, Maine' by Bill Hirschman

Declaring their feelings changes several small-town couples in one night in Riverside Theatre's Almost, Maine, taking place in a small far Northern Maine town that might/not exist, as differ…

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Friday, March 27, 2026

 Comedic, Witty & Earnest: Wilde's 'The Importance Of….' At Gulfshore Playhouse by Bill Hirschman

The Importance of Being Earnest playing at Gulfshore Playhouse has the singular quality of being both sly and …well, earnest. This comedy of manners builds absurdity upon absurdity. The po…

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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Neil Simon's Broadway Bound Finds Its Soul at PPTOPA by Bill Hirschman

Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts has mounted a genuinely moving production of Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, written in 1986, before an enthusiastic audience that clearly finds…

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Monday, March 23, 2026

'Would You Sacrifice Your Identity' Queried In GableStage's Prayers for the French Republic by Bill Hirschman

Would we abandon our history, our nationality or our faith to maintain another part of our identity if we faced overwhelming social prejudice? GableStage's Prayer for the French Republic dep…

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All that Chat

2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off