Has ever an industry so invited lampooning as the pint-size beauty-contest circuit? In the hilarious new Pageant Play, now debuting at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, co-authors and creators Mark Setlock and Matthew Wilkas -- here with the help of two knock-out leading ladies (Jenn Harris and Daiva Deupree) -- have come up with a crowd-pleaser that's a beauty in its own right.

Setlock and Wilkas play "finesse" coaches Bobby and Bob, who are presenting their seminar titled "IS MY CHILD A PAGEANT QUEEN AND IF NOT, CAN I MAKE HER ONE?" Bobby gets right down to brass tacks: "Who here has a ugly child? Raise your hands!" As it turns out, though, lack of beauty is apparently no impediment to th[...]