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'Dead Poets Society' Stage Review: Jason Sudeikis Seizes the Day

Jason Sudeikis in ‘Dead Poets Society’ (Photo: Joan Marcus) By Frank Rizzo, Variety Romantics will find much to embrace in writer Thomas Schulman’s stage adaptation of the 1989 film he wrote, Dead Poets Society, receiving its world premiere production at Off Broadway’s Classic Stage Company. Director John Doyle’s clever, simple-truths staging beguiles audiences much in the same way English teacher John Keating, portrayed here by Jason Sudeikis in a remarkable performance, leaves a mark on his im