Moving Zoetic Stage’s Musical Is Far More Than Next To Normal
By Bill Hirschman This is why we go to theater. Zoetic Stage’s production of Next to Normal is why we all go to theater. To be moved. To laugh. To have our minds and hearts opened, our vision...
View ArticleClark Gable Slept Here at The Foundry in Wilton Manors
Tom Wahl, left, and Michael McKeever in Clark Gable Slept Here at The Foundry By Aaron Krause Picture yourself almost continuously laughing while maintaining an iron grip on the novel you are...
View ArticleClyde’s launches Zoetic Stage’s 14th season
Randy Coleman, Sydney Presendieu, Gabriel Salgado, Karen Stephens, Kristian Bikic in Clyde’s at Zoetic Stage. Photo by Morgan Sophia By Oline H. Cogdill A sandwich is more than ingredients between two...
View ArticleZoetic Stage presents Wicked Child
Wayne LeGette, Margery Lowe, Ben Katz, Gracie Blu, Jeff Brackett, Michael McKeever, Jeni Hacker in Zoetic Stage’s Wicked Child. Photo by Justin Namon By Oline H. Cogdill Family get-togethers can be...
View ArticleZoetic’s Cabaret a game changer
Lindsey Corey in Zoetic Stage’s Cabaret. Photo by Justin Namon 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...
View Article‘The Actors,’ a Plays of Wilton production, makes its Off-Broadway debut
Ronnie Larsen, far left, Allen Lewis Rickman, Jeni Hacker, Gabriell Salgado and Jason Guy, far right, in The Actors, a Plays of Wilton production now making its Off-Broadway launch in Theatre Four at...
View ArticleStorytelling In Zoetic’s Pillowman Filled With Chills, Horror And Laughter
Detectives Michael McKeever and Gabriell Salgado interrogate Ryan Didator in Zoetic Stage’s The Pillowman / Photos by Justin Namon By Bill Hirschman A writer is telling yet another of his strange...
View ArticlePOTUS Embraces Everything From Farce to Political Satire
Things come unhinged in POTUS’ White House (Photos by Morgan Sophia Photography/Courtesy Adrienne Arsht Center) By Bill Hirschman Timing, of course, is a crucial element in comedy. But it doesn’t hurt...
View ArticleNot Quite Like Any Fiddler On The Roof You’ve Seen Before
Ben Sandomir and Jeni Hacker in Zoetic Stage’s reconceived Fiddler on the Roof (Photos by Morgan Sofia Photography) By Bill Hirschman No, Zoetic Stage’s production is not yet another Fiddler on the...
View ArticleVaried ‘Truths’ Clash in Zoetic Stage’s The Comeuppance
The bond among friends begins to deteriorate in examination at a 20th high school pre-reunion in Zoetic Stage’s The Comeuppance. )Photos by Morgan Sofia Photography) By Bill Hirschman Time, carrying...
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