63 stories by "Alex Huntsberger"
RECOMMENDED There is value in works of art that confuse, especially in the theater. So many plays from all across history can be boiled down to little more than allegory, parable or argument…
RECOMMENDED Sitting in the audience waiting for Babes with Blades’ all-female production of "Titus Andronicus" to begin, I did what any audience member does and took in the set, design…
RECOMMENDED David Greig's "Dunsinane" is a play playing three different games at once. The first game is that the play is a kinda-sorta sequel to Shakespeare's "Macbeth." The second game is …
Christopher Shinn's "Four" first premiered in 2001 and over a decade later it seems very much a product of its times. First of all there's the setting: Hartford, 1996, the Fourth of July. Bu…
RECOMMENDED The plays of Samuel Beckett are self-contained worlds. They are shorn of history, context and anything resembling realism: life boiled down to its bone-broth essence. So when dir…
RECOMMENDED Describing what Paul Downs Calaizzo’s “Really Really” is really about is not easy. The play is a Molotov kegger of sex, class, politics and violence. It’s…
RECOMMENDED Sharr White’s “The Other Place” begins as something like a memoir. Julianna, a successful scientist turned big pharma pitch woman (played with equal measures of…
RECOMMENDED In case you were wondering, yes, the title of this show is referring to THAT Mr. Burns, of "The Simpsons" infamy. But this isn't a show about him. And it isn't a show about eithe…
When a new play is tackling a current social issue, for instance the tensions between atheists, gays and right-wing mega-churches, there is always a difficult line to walk between arguing an…
RECOMMENDED "Nasty, Brutish & Short" is a wonderful title if not a particularly apt one for this DIY evening of storefront puppet theater. A more accurate title might be "Charming, Sligh…
RECOMMENDED It's probably appropriate that a show called "The Table" constantly refers back to the fact that it takes place on, wait for it, a table. The frequent reminders are not only funn…
RECOMMENDED A. Rey Pamatmat's luminous (and new-ish) play "Edith Can Shoot Things And Hit Them" has a spirit similar to the eighties classic "Stand By Me," only with one crucial difference. …
RECOMMENDED Watching “Hellcab” is sort of like having your heavily tattooed ex-con uncle wish you a merry Christmas. His breath may stink of whiskey and cigarettes, and you can&#…
