Theater
Straight White Men features plenty of conflict, but most of this wrangling comes in the form of tiresome, repetitive familial bickering.
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Eleanor Burgess’ The Niceties is an articulate, if structurally crabbed, expression of #blacklivesmatter anger as well as a millennial rebel yell.
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The show’s attempt at satire comes off as blunt and lecture-heavy at times, but the production still manages to be an engaging comedy of manners.
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The Beau Jest Moving Theater staging succeeds at conjuring up the genially comic spirit of the late Larry Coen, a bounteously talented actor and director.
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The performer’s question is direct: has the talented orator anything to say about race in today’s America? The answer is a galvanizing yes.
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This was the first stage production in a while that had me on my feet at the end, and thinking and feeling about it long afterward.
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The Black Clown commands the vastness of the Loeb’s stage with an enviable energy.
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Sexy Laundry airs the linen of a twenty-five-year marriage from which the colors seem to have faded, and the whites yellowed.
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Mothers and Sons is one of veteran playwright Terrence NcNally’s finest works.
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Three theaters in the Berkshires offer differing views of the past.
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Arts Commentary: Rich in Creativity — But Nothing Else