Review: Production of classic musical in Berkeley is just about perfect

Living inside a creative mind responsible for a work of art that never existed is a vexing proposition.

This is the case with George Seurat, who doesn’t paint as much as he jabs, harnessing his newfound technique of pointillism, in which the abstract up close gives way to harmonic clarity from a distance.

In Seurat’s master work of pointillist perfection “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” we see the painstaking process that comes with being an artist. The musical...