Tag Archives: Stuart Meltzer

Jan McArt’s New Play Series Schedule For 2015-2016

Jan McArt’s New Play Reading Series at Lynn University, which mounts staged readings of new plays in progress by local authors opens another season this fall with four works.

Posted in News | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Shorts Gone Wild Is Rainbow Of Gay-Themed Plays For Everyone

If the context of the eight sketches in Shorts Gone Wild 3 is primarily gay-centric, the material and performances have markedly improved year after year until it has reached a high-water mark in the series’ quality.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Affair In Reverse Provides Thoughtful Fodder In Betrayal

If God is omniscient, He must be inconsolably sad. Zoetic Stage’s superb production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal puts its audience in that poignant and painful position in which Knowledge is, indeed, the poisoned apple in Eden.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Dashed American Dream at the Center of Zoetic Stage’s Marvelously Rich “Detroit”

Detroit, Lisa D’Amour’s finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is a thought-provoking piece of theater. The Zoetic Stage production finds its own complex groove in Detroit to present a must see in Miami.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Memory Is the Real Villain In Zoetic’s The Great God Pan

The unreliability of memory — and the resulting doubt and guilt — swirl through Zoetic Stage’s finely crafted production of The Great God Pan.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Zoetic And McKeever Skewer Hollywood As A Cesspool In Clark Gable Slept Here

Death, drug overdose, murder, lies, hypocrisy, soulless creatures willing to do absolutely anything for greed and glamour – you really shouldn’t be laughing this much or this hard. But after all, it’s Hollywood in Michael McKeever’s hilarious new play Clark Gable Slept Here getting its world premiere at Zoetic Stage.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Christopher Demos-Brown Is Finalist For Steinberg/Theatre Critics’ Playwriting Award

Christopher Demos-Brown is among six finalists for one of the most esteemed playwriting honors in the country, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award.
The selection was based on the script for his play Fear Up Harsh that premiered in November at Zoetic Stage.

Posted in News | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Sondheim’s Dark Musical Assassins Is A Triumphant Bullseye From Zoetic

Zoetic Stage director Stuart Meltzer and a superb collection of actors and designers have scored, forgive me, a bull’s eye with this production of Assassins. . Any Stephen Sondheim fan understands that his work is not everyone’s cup of saltpeter. But for those who seek intelligent, thought-provoking musical theater, there are few pieces as superb as this.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Demos-Brown’s Fear Up Harsh At Zoetic Is Explosive Inquiry Into Our Need For Heroes

Christopher Demos-Brown’s compelling world premiere Fear Up Harsh from Zoetic Stage is a penetrating interrogation of how our need for heroes can trump the values of truth, honor and loyalty that they fought to preserve. It’s like watching a Humvee drive toward an IED and be stunned by the explosion, first in slow-motion and then an annihilating blast.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Zoetic’s Savannah Disputation Lampoons Religious Zealotry

“Act as if ye had faith and faith shall be given ye” goes the maxim and the performers in Zoetic Stage’s production of The Savannah Disputation seem to have taken it as their watchword. They and director Stuart Meltzer have invested every bit of their considerable talent making a flawed, one-and-a-half-dimensional script into a terribly funny and mildly thought-provoking evening about religious certitude.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment