The songs that the Dahl family sings, harmoniously, off and on throughout Leslye Headland’s dysfunctional-family comedy-drama “Cult of Love”—Christmas carols, gospel, folk songs—seem at first like a sitcom-style effort to make us laugh at the triteness, the preternatural joviality of this Christian family’s holiday celebration. The opening-night audience at Berkeley Repertory Theatre did indeed laugh […]
