Beau Jest Moving Theater
This is an indelibly zany concoction: part homage, part esprit de corps, part meditation on screwball comedy as a form of modest but invigorating cheer.
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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.
Read MoreWild Williams is a marvelous antidote for the formulaic.
Read MoreWe do it for the joy and communitas of making theater together much as we do for responding to the world around us through art.
Read MoreTennessee Williams’ stature amongst American playwrights may be more secure then it was when he died in 1983, but companies like Beau Jest, when they stage inspired productions of previously neglected works, are expanding our appreciation of what kind of a dramatist he was.
Read MoreBy Bill Marx What are artists? Desperate searchers after whatever can be found of truth and beauty, even when the two may be poles apart. – Tennessee Williams, “Notebooks” (1979) The Remarkable Rooming House of Madame Le Monde by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Davis Robinson. Beau Jest Moving Theater production (commissioned by the Provincetown Tennessee…
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Theater Commentary: What’s a Fringe Theater in Boston to Do Today?
My point is obvious: real estate is key to the survival of the small theater scene.
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