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Demos-Brown’s American Son Finally Comes Home To Miamii
By Bill Hirschman When Christopher Demos-Brown’s racially charged drama American Son finally opens this week at Zoetic Stage, it will be, as director Stuart Meltzer says, “a homecoming.” The journey...
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Zoetic’s American Son Harrowingly Documents Racial Tumult In America Today
Clive Cholerton and Karen Stephens spar over their damaged marriage while waiting for news of their missing son in Zoetic Stage’s production of Christopher Demos-Brown’s American Son / Photos by Justin...
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Zoetic Sweeps Online Carbonell Gala With Focus On Diversity
Aloysius Gigl and Jeni Hacker, who both won Carbonell awards for their performances, plan a new enterprising way of making money and getting revenge in Sweeney Todd, the Zoetic Stage production that...
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2020 SoFla Theater: What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been
“Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure, measure a year? In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife?” By Bill Hirschman It sounds like the cliched Pollyanna promo...
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Zoetic Open For Entries In Finstrom New Play Festival
The Finstrom Festival of New Work, a new national playwriting contest, has just opened for entries – a competition whose finalists will undergo workshops, staged readings and possibly a full production...
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Faced With Pandemic, Zoetic’s Improv Troupe Soldiers On
By John ThomasonAs live arts and entertainment return in fits and starts, and our culture continues its tortoise crawl toward normal, one thing has become apparent: Face masks may be vital in impeding...
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Hilarious, Moving ‘Fuacata’ Returns Even More Relevant
Elena Maria Garcia channeling one of more than 20 characters in Fuacata! / Photos by Justin Namon. By Bill Hirschman Fuácata!, now on its third production in South Florida, has been tweaked by its...
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Zoetic Stage’s Breathtaking Frankenstein Delivers A Different Brand of Horror
The Creature’s birth is an unforgettable performance by Gabriell Salgado / Photos by Justin Namon By Bill Hirschman The “horror” in Zoetic Stage’s Frankenstein shares little kinship with the 1931...
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Dickens Nailed It: South Florida Theater Two Years In Review
By Bill Hirschman “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” If Dickens’ opening line in A Tale of Two Cities has become a trite cliché through overuse over the past century and a half, it...
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There’s No Place Like Homeland, Not Even What Was Once
The Alvarez family and new friends on a bumpy ride across the Cuban countryside in search of their past in the world premiere of Hannah Benitez’s GringoLandia at Zoetic Stage/ Photos by Tony Tur By...
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Zoetic’s Sondheim: It Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This
Comedy Tonight in Zoetic Stage’s Suide by Side by Sondheim with Stuart-Meltzer, Joline Mujica, Aloysius Gigl, and Jeni Hacker / Photosd by Justin Namon By Bill Hirschman Folks, it doesn’t get much...
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Dark, Funny Rollercoaster Ride Through Adolescence In Zoetic’s Our Dear Dead...
The seance begins in Our Dear Dead Drug Lord for Gina Fonseca, Mikayla Queeley, Rachel Eddy and Sofia Duemichen / Photo by Justin Namon By Bill Hirschman Forgive me if I need a moment to shake off the...
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Ethics, People Are Dispensable In Hnath’s Scathing Red Speedo
Gabriell Salgado is Ray, the center of controversy in Red Speedo at Ronnie Larsen productions / Photo by Dennis Dean By Bill Hirschman “Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me.”...
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We’re Still Here: A Look Back at South Florida Theater 2022
Memorable aural and visual memories were gifts to the audiences at Slow Burn Theatre’s Once On This Island / Photo by Gregory Reed By Bill Hirschman Producing and attending theater in South Florida...
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Like the Country It Unravels, ‘American Rhapsody is Complicated, Ambitious &...
Lela Elam bonds with Alex Weisman in the world premiere of Michael McKeever’s American Rhapsody / Photos by Justin Namon By John Thomason On the twin screens hidden inside Robert F. Wolin’s abstract...
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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...
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Clark 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...
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Clyde’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...
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Zoetic 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...
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Zoetic’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...
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