Tag Archives: Marina Pareja

There’s No Place Like Homeland, Not Even What Was Once

The concepts of home and homeland—especially when they are no longer the same place— have become even more complicated in the 21st Century for Cuban-Americans highlighted in Hannah Benitez’ world premiere GringoLandia commissioned by Zoetic Stage, a gentle comedy woven with the struggles of a past that no longer exists.

Posted on January 15, 2022 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Alicia Cruz, Becky Montero, Gabriell Salgado, Hannah Benitez, James Puig, Jodi Dellaventura, Marina Pareja, Michael McKeeever, Stephanie Vazquez, Stuart Meltzer, Yarelis Gandul | Leave a comment

Zoetic Stage’s Breathtaking Frankenstein Delivers A Different Brand of Horror

The “horror” in Zoetic Stage’s Frankenstein shares little kinship with the film monster with bolts in his neck terrorizing the countryside or even the 1818 novel of science gone wrong. But a different very contemporary terror is there all the same from the breath-taking wordless prologue of a stitched together embryo clawing out of a pod to the silent final image of two bodies crawling through Arctic waste.

Posted on October 17, 2021 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Alessandro J. Lopez, Barry Tarallo, Daniel Capote, Donesha Rose, Frankenstein, Gabriell Salgado, Henry Gainza, Imran Hylton, Jodi Dellaventura, Lindsey Corey, Marina Pareja, Matt Corey, Matthew Korinko, Nate Promkul, Nick Dear, Rebecca Montero, Ross Kaplan, Seth Trucks, Stuart Meltzer, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

Classic Todd Tale Gets Fresh Approach From Zoetic Stage

One definition of classic theater is a piece that not only remains popular or relevant through time, but which can be endlessly reinterpreted or restaged without losing any of its brilliance, Shakespeare’s work being the most obvious example. Zoetic Stage’s latest entry working its way through the Stephen Sondheim canon underscores how Sweeney Todd qualifies.

Posted on March 16, 2019 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Aloysius Gigl, Becky Montero, Henry Gainza, Jeni Hacker, Jodi Dellaventura, Kevin Veloz, Kimberly Doreen Burns, Marina Pareja, Natalie Taveras, Nate Promkul, Paul Tine, Shannon Nicole Booth, Stuart Meltzer, Sweeney Todd, Terry Hardcastle, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment