There will probably be those who find debilitating fault with Annie Baker's comedy Body Awareness, making its world premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2, unable to resist the urge to haul out an adjective like "whimsical." I'll let them chatter on while thinking how I ate up the thoughtful 90-minute romp with a spoon.

The amusing action takes place on the small Shirley State College campus in Vermont, where lesbian couple Phyllis (Mary McCann) and Joyce (JoBeth Williams) are raising Joyce's 21-year-old son Jared (Jonathan Clem), whom they both worry has long been showing Asperger's Syndrome signs. Into the contemporary alternative family's midst comes visiting artist Frank Bo[...]