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POTUS Embraces Everything From Farce to Political Satire

Timing, of course, is a crucial element in comedy. But it doesn’t hurt that it occurs when the social-political world around you conveniently coincides as it dies in Zoetic Stage’s hysterical POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.

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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.

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Once Again Garcia Scores With Comic Cuban Chicken Soup

Cuban Chicken Soup: When There’s No More Café is a ‘Grand Slam with yuca’ thanks to the sparkling performance of Elena Maria Garcia. The one-woman play at Zoetic Stage is a sequel to 2016’s ¡Fuacata! Or a Latina’s Guide to Surviving the Universe written by Garcia and Stuart Meltzer. The play runs a little over ninety minutes but feels more like a thirty-minute sitcom.

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Zoetic Stage’s #Graced Is Quirky Road Trip To Define America

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 personally and what America is in the 21st Century.

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Moving Zoetic Stage’s Musical Is Far More Than Next To Normal

This Zoetic production of Next To Normal – easily one of the finest in its history — blesses the audience with a deeply affecting meld of fluid staging, glorious music and five superb performances clustered around an incandescent one by Jeni Hacker as Diana that exceeds superlatives.

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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.

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We’re Still Here: A Look Back at South Florida Theater 2022

Quite a come back year: World premieres, epic musicals, moving two-character dramas, you name it. Here’s not so much a “best of the year” list – no such list can be reliable or complete – but a random recognition of outstanding performances, productions, trends and just moments that theaterlovers will carry with them into 2023.

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