Hannah Duggan

Buntport's Tommy Lee Jones Goes to Opera Alone is brilliantly original

Buntport's Tommy Lee Jones puppet doppelgänger a group effort

Tomorrow night, Buntport Theater will open a new show, inspired by a true event, called Tommy Lee Jones Goes to Opera Alone. But the title belies the community effort it took for Buntport to produce and animate a nearly life-size puppet of the solitary actor.

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Tomorrow night, Buntport Theater will open a new show, inspired by a true event, called Tommy Lee Jones Goes to Opera Alone. But the title belies the community effort it took for Buntport to produce and animate a nearly life-size puppet of the solitary actor.

Kafka on Ice redux: Tonight at Buntport Theater

Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice -- created by the company in 2004 -- combines events from the author's life with incidents in his famous novella Metamorphosis (you know, the one that begins, "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic ... More >>

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Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice -- created by the company in 2004 -- combines events from the author's life with incidents in his famous novella Metamorphosis (you know, the one that begins, "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic ... More >>

At Buntport, two one-acts reflect the company's style: clever, playful and inventive

Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice -- created by the company in 2004 -- combines events from the author's life with incidents in his famous novella Metamorphosis (you know, the one that begins, "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic ... More >>

A Rare Pair

Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice -- created by the company in 2004 -- combines events from the author's life with incidents in his famous novella Metamorphosis (you know, the one that begins, "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic ... More >>

The Buntport Theater was looking good at Kafka on Ice's reopening

​More than once during the Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice, the character of Franz Kafka (played by Josh Hartwell) comments on how stupid it is to stage an ice-capade revolving around his life and work. "It's inappropriate!" he protests. As justification, toward the end of the play, another ch ... More >>

The floor gets very wet in Moby Dick Unread

​More than once during the Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice, the character of Franz Kafka (played by Josh Hartwell) comments on how stupid it is to stage an ice-capade revolving around his life and work. "It's inappropriate!" he protests. As justification, toward the end of the play, another ch ... More >>

Buntport Theater creates a hare-raising musical with Jugged Rabbit Stew

​More than once during the Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice, the character of Franz Kafka (played by Josh Hartwell) comments on how stupid it is to stage an ice-capade revolving around his life and work. "It's inappropriate!" he protests. As justification, toward the end of the play, another ch ... More >>

Buntport channels its inner O'Neill in The World Is Mine

​More than once during the Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice, the character of Franz Kafka (played by Josh Hartwell) comments on how stupid it is to stage an ice-capade revolving around his life and work. "It's inappropriate!" he protests. As justification, toward the end of the play, another ch ... More >>

Buntport's production of Indiana, Indiana is pure poetry.

​More than once during the Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice, the character of Franz Kafka (played by Josh Hartwell) comments on how stupid it is to stage an ice-capade revolving around his life and work. "It's inappropriate!" he protests. As justification, toward the end of the play, another ch ... More >>

Gogol is a no-go at Buntport

​More than once during the Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice, the character of Franz Kafka (played by Josh Hartwell) comments on how stupid it is to stage an ice-capade revolving around his life and work. "It's inappropriate!" he protests. As justification, toward the end of the play, another ch ... More >>

Buntport goes postal with Seal. Stamp. Send. Bang.

​More than once during the Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice, the character of Franz Kafka (played by Josh Hartwell) comments on how stupid it is to stage an ice-capade revolving around his life and work. "It's inappropriate!" he protests. As justification, toward the end of the play, another ch ... More >>

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Buntport explores the final frontier of comedy.

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Buntport does right by an upside-down world.

Moby Dick Unread

Buntport presents a whale of a tale.

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Our Town meets our town in Buntport’s latest.

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Buntport makes magic with Something Is Rotten.

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Buntport's Macblank, while funny, feels like an extended skit.

Cutting-Edge Comedy

Buntport's Kafka on Ice slices up the melancholy author's life.

Cutting Edge

Buntport Theater has fun with one-acts and paper props.

Detecting Noir

Buntport stalks laughter.

Fairy Amusing

Buntport's clever Idiot Box shows the tiny rubes behind the tube.

Major Props

Buntport dazzles with silly yet serious inventiveness.

Dictator's Folly

The 30th of Baydak needs to swim in deeper waters.

Map Happy

The Earth's Sharp Edge finds imaginative and joyous ways to cross borders.

Titus All Rightus!

Buntport's version of Shakespeare's forgotten yarn strikes a bloody good note.