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Zoetic & McKeever’s Moscow Is Rich Comedy With a Heavy Load

Michael McKeever’s Moscow’s in its world premiere by Zoetic Stage in the Adrienne Arsht Center’s intimate Carnival Studio Theater is rich in so many ways with deep characters, dialogue that is quick and witty, and, for this production, a cast that couldn’t give more of its all. The only downside is that the mule in this Moscow is saddled with way too many burdens.

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Zoetic’s The SantaLand Diaries Is Witty Satire, But Not For Kids

The SantaLand Diaries is a holiday tale – not a warm inspiring morality fable for Christmas, but a harrowing if hilarious horror story for Halloween.

In Zoetic Stage’s production, the satirical monologue of a would-be actor slaving as an elf in Macy’s SantaLand is a wry, acerbic riff on the desensitizing corporate commercialization not just of the holiday, but of genuine sentiment as well.

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Zoetic Stage’s Captiva is Incisive Look Inside the American Family

Captiva is a brilliantly observed, finely etched portrait of the familial ties that bind in every sense of the word. It’s also one of the finest works of theater we’ve seen in the strongest 18 months of theater this region has produced in recent memory.

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Christopher Demos-Brown: Playwright in Paradise

Christopher Demos-Brown’s creative life right now is what a watershed looks like for an emerging American playwright in the early 21st Century. Our Lady of Allapattah bows at the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton in April. The world premiere of When the Sun Shone Brighter was a highlight of Florida Stage’s last season in Manalapan, and Captiva premieres this weekend at Zoetic Stage in the Arsht Center.

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Looking Back: The Best (and Worst) of the 2010-2011 Season

By Bill Hirschman (CORRECTED 9:47 A.M.) Theater reviewers must have a better than average ego to flatter themselves into believing that their judgment has worth, regardless of what anyone else thinks. So imagine critics asking each other for a reality …

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