Tag Archives: Michael McKeever
McKeever Play To Travel Overseas Next Month
Michael McKeever and Christopher Renshaw are going to London. And they’re taking the code with them. Well, they’re taking The Code with them, The Code being the acclaimed play that McKeever wrote and Crenshaw directed back in April 2022 at Ronnie Larsen Presents’ production at the Foundry.
Profile: Dramaworks’ 25 Years Striving For Quality, Connecting and Staying in the Black
The best theater profoundly affects audience & the artists simultaneously. Over 25 years, Palm Beach Dramaworks has accrued acclaim from audiences & donors for quality, respect in social-political fundraising corridors, and business standards keeping them in the black. Tracking their growth provides lessons for fledgling and experienced companies.
Storytelling In Zoetic’s Pillowman Filled With Chills, Horror And Laughter
Zoetic Stage’s The Pillowman lives up to this masterpiece’s amalgam of a terrifying nightmare and black comedy. It is built around a half-dozen disparate themes so fused together that it is impossible to say what, if any, overarching theme exists. And as horror-laden stories intensify, the audience is within seconds alternately chilled — and chuckling with laughter. And back again.
Zoetic’s Cabaret a game changer
By Oline Cogdill When the John Kander/Fred Ebb musical Cabaret opened on Broadway in 1966, it was a gamechanger in its staging, tone and story. Certainly, other musicals tackled politics in specific eras—such as Sound of Music (1959) and …
Zoetic Stage presents Wicked Child
By Oline H. Cogdill Family get-togethers can be fraught with underlying disagreements, resentments augmented by past histories. But in the case of the extended family in Zoetic Stage’s solid production of the intelligent Wicked Child, it is love and respect …
Like the Country It Unravels, ‘American Rhapsody is Complicated, Ambitious & Flawed
American Rhapsody, Michael McKeever’s sprawling premiere at Zoetic Stage, is a history play, a bildungsroman, a tribute to fluid families, a cautionary tale about where the zeitgeist might be headed. It spans more than 60 years and feels, perhaps like the American experiment itself.
Hollywood’s Homophobic Hypocrisy Examined in The Code
The soul-killing inherent in the film dream factory’s deconstruction and then sanitized reconstruction of its icons has been a popular topic, from 1932’s What Price Hollywood to four versions of A Star is Born. But Michael McKeever’s incisive world premiere The Code at The Foundry attacks it from a different fresh angle that is painfully topical.
Growing Fear In The People Downstairs Is All Too Familiar
Theater is often political: but sometimes, like The People Downstairs, Michael McKeever’s harrowing world premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks, the relevancy of the Dutch people hiding the Anne Frank family only magnifies as current events overtake them.
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