Theater
Eleanor Burgess’ The Niceties is an articulate, if structurally crabbed, expression of #blacklivesmatter anger as well as a millennial rebel yell.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Black Clown commands the vastness of the Loeb’s stage with an enviable energy.
Sexy Laundry airs the linen of a twenty-five-year marriage from which the colors seem to have faded, and the whites yellowed.
Mothers and Sons is one of veteran playwright Terrence NcNally’s finest works.
Three theaters in the Berkshires offer differing views of the past.
George Bernard Shaw’s The Man of Destiny could be an evening of delight with a frisson of cerebral exercise.
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