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Sunday, August 13, 2023

Thrill Me makes a riveting musical at Island City Stage by Bill Hirschman

  By Aaron Krause Nobody in their right mind would condone the titular character's actions in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Yet, we can sympathize with this fictional se…

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Monday, July 31, 2023

Friendships are in season at Last Summer at Bluefish Cove by Bill Hirschman

WOW, Women of Wilton launches its first production By Oline H. Cogdill Love and friendship, grief and death are timeless themes that are the foundation of the entertaining productio…

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Lindsey Corey seamlessly slips into 15 characters in Defending the Cavewoman at Actors Playhouse by Bill Hirschman

Defending the Cavewoman explores the differences between women and men. The post Lindsey Corey seamlessly slips into 15 characters in Defending the Cavewoman at Actors Playhouse first appear…

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Monday, July 10, 2023

NCP's Little Montgomery Morphs From Cute Comedy To Exam of the Human Comedy by Bill Hirschman

New City Players' Little Montgomery starts as a satisfyingly cute summer chuckle of a comedy, but morphs into a deeper examination of human beings struggling awkwardly to cope with the word …

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Sunday, June 25, 2023

What You've Seen And Will See Next Season Crippled By Lack Of Competent Craftspeople by Bill Hirschman

What audiences have seen, are seeing and will see across stages has been crippled and artistically hidden in a strangulation that only insiders know about. Simply, it's extremely difficult t…

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Wednesday, June 21, 2023

6 Dance Lessons/6 Weeks Returns From New 'ArtBuzz Theatrics' Company by Bill Hirschman

ArtBuzz Theatrics' compelling professional production of Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks features impressively realistic, nuanced, and multi-faceted performances from veterans Larry Buzzeo an…

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Friday, June 16, 2023

Issues Woven Into Warm Comedy in GableStage's Native Gardens by Bill Hirschman

Native Gardens is, indeed, a comedy infused with character-based humor that satisfies as a warm summer evening of laughs. But Karen Zacarías' social satire at GableStage gently weaves in …

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Thursday, June 15, 2023

Beetlejuice Reappears To Wreak Havoc " This Time In a Musical by Bill Hirschman

The musical Beetlejuice, part of the Broadway Across America series, is resplendent with silly, often stupid, jokes, over-the-top acting and sometimes forgettable songs that actually all com…

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

High-Energy & Enthusiasm Mark Front Page Edition of Newsies by Bill Hirschman

The Newsboy Strike of 1899 is the foundation of a high-energy, enthusiastic and plain old fun production of the musical Disney's Newsies closing out Slow Burn Theatre Company's season. The p…

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Monday, June 12, 2023

Summer Shorts Return With a Miami/ BIPOC / LatinX Flavor by Bill Hirschman

City Theatre's Summer Shorts vibrates with the unique distinctive essence that exceeds traditional adjectives and can best be captured in the word "Miami." Indeed, the production is subtitle…

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Saturday, June 10, 2023

Report From New York (Tony Edition) Kimberly Akimbo Fuses Humor & Pain Of Adolescence by Bill Hirschman

The musical Kimberly Akimbo sounds like the premise for a Disney comedy: A teenager afflicted with a disease that ages her 4 ½ times faster than normal tries to cope at the same time with…

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Friday, June 9, 2023

Report From New York (Tony Edition): Parade's Unblinkingly Focuses On Anti-Semitism by Bill Hirschman

Parade forces you watch to first-hand the inexorable horror of anti-Semitism, not in a newspaper, but rising feet in front of you with the complexity, the fear and the human enmity envelopin…

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Report From New York (Tony Edition): The Play Goes Wrong Again Gleefully With Peter Pan by Bill Hirschman

The precise use of the technically forensic terms "fun," "delightful" and "rollicking" are absolutely accurate when describing Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the latest in the development of no-holds…

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Jodie Langel's New Youth Company To Present Musical '13' by Bill Hirschman

Jodie Langel promises that audiences attending the inaugural production of South Florida's newest theater company will be "blown away" by the young performers' talent. Her Off Glades Theater…

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Monday, June 5, 2023

Report From New York (Tony Edition): Looking In On Sidney Brustein 50 Years Later by Bill Hirschman

Lorraine Hansberry'sThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window about a liberal couple and their circle in Greenwich Village is an worth seeing (and mounting locally). but acknowledge that it is d…

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Sunday, June 4, 2023

Let Your Hair Down With Honky Tonk Angels At Riverside by Bill Hirschman

After a season filled with provocative drama and lavish musicals, Riverside Theatre lets its hair down with Honky Tonk Angels, a juke box musical filled with country music and down-home humo…

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Friday, June 2, 2023

Report From New York (Tony Edition): Sweeney Returns With Scope Rarely Seen Since 1979 by Bill Hirschman

Sweeney Todd has rarely been restored to the breathtaking visual scope of that initial production featured, but the current revival is the return of a full-fledged, full-throated, fully-pro…

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

Report From New York " Tony Edition: Some Like It Hot Is A Time Machine With Asterisks by Bill Hirschman

It's a safe bet that the stage floor has been reinforced and tts speakers upgraded to accommodate the pounding tap dancers and the whirlwind of music pouring out at Some Like It Hot. If you…

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Report From New York (Tony Edition): Life of Pi Puppetry Gifts Visual Triumph by Bill Hirschman

On occasions, you run into people who have dismissed seeing plays without having seeing one, people who don't understand the absolutely unique magic of live Theater. Drag them to see Life of…

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Monday, May 29, 2023

Dramaworks' Ends Season With Electric Topdog/Underdog by Bill Hirschman

Palm Beach Dramaworks' immersifying edition of Topdog/Underdog laudably justifies in its delivery, this masterwork has a depth and complexity that gifts each outing with the opportunity to c…

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Hundreds of Students' Work in Theater Honored At Cappies by Bill Hirschman

Amid protracted and repeated cheers of a volume rarely heard in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, hundreds upon hundreds of high school students and their families celebrated the c…

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Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Tracy Jones Is Gentle Comedy of Lonely People Trying to Connect by Bill Hirschman

Tracy Jones bowing at Island City Stage is a comedy masking lonely people trying to make connections they don't have the skill to achieve. It's a briskly-moving smile with quirky characters …

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Saturday, May 20, 2023

Mystery In Actors' Playhouse's Proof Goes Beyond Mathematics by Bill Hirschman

Genius and madness. Concrete calculations and unbridled theorizing. Humor and sorrow. But the greatest mysteries depicted in Proof reside in the human heart, conflicts on display that are ha…

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Thursday, May 18, 2023

M Ensemble Again Does Justice To Wilson's Two Trains Running by Bill Hirschman

Langston Hughes wrote of "a dream deferred" from the elevated promontory of poetry; but the great playwright August Wilson wrote from the street what it was like living through a dream being…

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Sunday, May 14, 2023

MNM's Disenchanted Enchants by Bill Hirschman

The musical Disenchanted is a highly entertaining, hysterical, irreverent, clever, poignant, profane, with several bits of profanity, reimagining of what happened to these princesses, making…

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Miami New Drama's Evocative 'Create Dangerously' Resounds For Haitians, Educates All of Us by Bill Hirschman

With music, dance, humor, drama and storytelling,Create Dangerously at Miami New Drama reaffirms the glory and agony of Haiti's tumultuous culture that should resound with Haitian-American i…

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Sunday, May 7, 2023

Zoetic Stage's #Graced Is Quirky Road Trip To Define America by Bill Hirschman

Zoetic Stage's #Graced is an episodic road trip veering all over the place in a theatrically metaphorical jalopy bouncing along on a journey for its protagonists to discover who they are per…

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Thursday, May 4, 2023

Wick's Million Dollar Quartet Is Still Worth Every Penny by Bill Hirschman

As the Wick Theatre's electric production of Million Dollar Quartet powers through the last four numbers, it's easy to imagine that the sun never sets anywhere in the world where this musica…

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

'Mean Girls' Sweetly Revisits Anxiety-Ridden Teen Years by Bill Hirschman

Is it possible to call the musical Mean Girls sweet, despite the tropes of teenage anxieties, insecurities, cliques and general high school malaise, not to mention the meanest of mean girls …

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Main Street Players Depicts Human Cost Of Economic Flux by Bill Hirschman

Main Street Players' unsparing edition of Lynn Nottage's stunning Sweat insightfully tracks the spiraling toilet spin of blue collar workers as economic changes devastate their incomes and t…

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Monday, April 24, 2023

One More Yesterday Deserves Many More Tomorrows by Bill Hirschman

The musical One More Yesterday may see it itself as a work progress, but enfold yourself in this humorous, tuneful and heartfelt work, especially to savor Angie Radosh giving yet another sup…

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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