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Varied ‘Truths’ Clash in Zoetic Stage’s The Comeuppance
Time, carrying the inevitability of mortality and exposing complex truths about our past, is the central vendor of the title in Zoetic Stage’s overwhelming drama The Comeuppance about a high school reunion comparing the present with the past that forged it.
Not Quite Like Any Fiddler On The Roof You’ve Seen Before
No, Zoetic Stage’s production is not yet another Fiddler on the Roof. This re-imagined production infused with joy has imagination, power, vitality and a freshness that gifts you as if you’re almost seeing it for the first time. Yet, the spirit, the messages of the original classic remain intact, even underscored.
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.
‘The Actors,’ a Plays of Wilton production, makes its Off-Broadway debut
By Oline H. Cogdill NEW YORK CITY—Families start in myriad ways—biological origins, adoptions or forged among friends. Ronnie takes a different route—he hires a family in the witty, poignant “The Actors,” a Plays of Wilton production now making its Off-Broadway …
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 …
Clyde’s launches Zoetic Stage’s 14th season
By Oline H. Cogdill A sandwich is more than ingredients between two slices of bread at Clyde’s, the truck stop diner that is the setting and title of Lynn Nottage’s deliciously insightful play now receiving a superb production at Zoetic …
Clark Gable Slept Here at The Foundry in Wilton Manors
By Aaron Krause Picture yourself almost continuously laughing while maintaining an iron grip on the novel you are reading. Your eyes have remained wide open for so long that your eyelids feel heavy. But you force them …
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