Is there a future for challenging non-corporate theater (i.e. the fringe), and what does that future look like?
Zeitgeist Stage Company
Theater Review: “Vicuña” — Into the Belly of the Beast
We need a satire that takes Trump’s radical threat more seriously than Vicuña.
Theater Review: “Steve” — A Comedy about Mid-Life Crisis
Steve is a satisfyingly genial comedy that brings up, but then darts quickly away from, serious issues.
Theater Review: “Faceless” — Dramatically Indecisive
Selina Fllinger’s play manages to serve up some vivid confrontations between believers and doubters.
Theater Review: Tennessee Williams Inspires “Desire”
The source material — and the skills of Tennessee Williams’ posthumous collaborators — provides an evening of compelling theater.
Theater Review: Zeitgeist Stage Company’s “Exit Strategy” — Tales Out of School
Can the smothered idealism of the teachers be rekindled? Will the school be saved if students and faculty join together?
Fuse Theater Review: “Eight by Tenn” — Tennessee Williams’ Miraculous Miniatures
Eight by Tenn offers eight stories whose psychological depths and linguistic riches rival those of most full-length plays.
Fuse Theater Review: Zeitgeist Stage’s “A Great Wilderness” — Revelations in the Woods
A Great Wilderness dramatizes the plight of a believer who is forced to face a powerful truth about himself — that he has probably wasted his life.
Stage Review: Not much of a “Cakewalk”
An air of anachronism hangs over the ZSC production of Cakewalk, particularly regarding its treatment of racial and social issues.
Theater Review: “The Submission” — An Engaging Script that Falls Short of Its Ambitions
At first, The Submission comes on as an agreeably edgy satire of the automatic embrace of identity politics and political correctness in the academy and popular culture.