Taking Stock with 'Body Awareness' (AmericanTheaterWeb.com)
A Household’s Wounds Are Raw, but No One Is Willing to Ease the Tensions (New York Times)
JoBeth Williams’s lovely performance is among the chief enticements of this low-key, engaging new comedy.
Stunning 'Body' of work (New York Daily News)
Beyond its mundane title, "Body Awareness" is a comedy that's fantastically fresh and satisfying - and comes with two bonuses. The Atlantic Theater Company production, which opened last night, also marks a pair of exciting Off-Broadway debuts.
The son never rises (New York Post)
Of all the recent quirky characters in quirky plays, Jared (Jonathan Clem), the 21-year-old at the center of Annie Baker's "Body Awareness," is the quirkiest. Super smart but unable to function in any social situation, he's obsessed with the Oxford English Dictionary, sucks on a toothbrush when he's anxious and is...
'Body' gets workout with little results (Star-Ledger)
For all of its considerable wind-up, "Body Awareness" ultimately doesn't pay off with satisfying drama.
'Body Awareness' stirs up awareness of one's body (Associated Press)
Body Awareness reviewed by Leonard Jacobs (Back Stage)
One never knows whether a bit of staging is the director's idea or the performer's, but you get the sense that Kohlhaas recognizes her cast's wonderful self-possession.
Review: Body Awareness (Variety)
There's a sly clue in Walt Spangler's set design that suggests how the world of "Body Awareness" is going to fall apart. Playwright Annie Baker, making her Off Broadway debut, drops a liberated lesbian couple in Vermont, gives them socially aware jobs, and fills their fridge with organic grape juice and vegetarian soup. But in their boho-tasteful kitchen, the cabinets are twice as tall as they are. Even if they tried, they couldn't reach the top shelves, and they have similar trouble living up to their ultra-lefty standards.
Review: Body Awareness (TheaterMania)
Annie Baker's thoughtful comedy shows the kind of smiling humanity that ought to be endemic to playwriting.
Review: Body Awarenes (Talkin' Broadway)
Go ahead, tell yourself that self-image is no laughing matter. Then just try to explain why you’re cracking up about nude photography, the lumpy landscape of the male form, and lesbianism. And, for good measure, toss in that eternal comic gem Asperger syndrome. Don’t you care about others? Have you no shame? . . .
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