Theater review: Synetic Theater's 'Beauty and the Beast'

It's not what's behind a curtain, but behind a screen, that counts most crucially in Synetic Theater's graphically clever new adaptation of the 18th-century French fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast." The semitransparent partition mounted on wheels is a delightful conduit for many of the supernatural (as well as more naturalistic) exploits in director Ben Cunis's largely successful treatment. The screen makes possible an array of scenes enacted by shadow puppets, and for the essential action seque...