Review: HORATIO ALGER FESTIVAL by Martin Denton
For the seventh time, Metropolitan Playhouse is presenting a "Living Literature Festival," in which the life and work of one or more artists from American's past serves as the inspiration for new works of independent theater. Previous editions devoted to a single writer focused on four of the 19th century's "biggies"--Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Edgar Allen Poe--writers w…