Theater
This is an opportunity to take in the early stirrings of Tennessee Williams’ talent as a playwright.
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Not all of the production’s choices pay off, but Hamnet is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind play that strikes at a universal sense of longing.
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We need a satire that takes Trump’s radical threat more seriously than Vicuña.
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Stephen Adly Guirgis has written a fine play about those who would blur their minds rather than admit just how tired they are.
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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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Arts Commentary: Another View of “The Niceties”
To an extent, The Niceties does probe a fault line between the Democratic Party and the left: a boundary that will rupture sooner rather than later.
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