Email Author Alexis Soloski

1998 Stories by Alexis Soloski

• Heads and Tales

  published December 22, 1998

  Twenty-foot tall, papier-mâché puppets can do no wrong. Let them recite stilted dialogue, let their movement vocabulary be limited to... More >>

• Needlework

  published December 1, 1998

  Trainspotting (Players Theatre), director Harry Gibson's bleak adaptation of the Irvine Welsh novel, drips with all the gritty gross-outs and... More >>

• Toy Stories

  published November 17, 1998

  As gusts of wind bluster menacingly, gauzy curtains burst apart. The footlights reveal a plane that banks, spins, falters, and finally crashes... More >>

• Last Call

  published November 3, 1998

  In the midst of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life (Chain Lightning Theatre), McCarthy, an intellectual longshoreman, offers his... More >>

• Drag King

  published September 29, 1998

  Richard III lurks amid the stage's rough-hewn boards, makeshift throne, and frolicsome courtiers. With a wry smile, she (yes, she) slips... More >>