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Having earned a Tony Award nomination for Urinetown, Hunter Foster’s no stranger to subversive theatre. But in Billy Goda’s new play Dust, which opened at the Westside Theatre on December 4, the actor gets to indulge in a whole mess of deviant activities, like pointing guns at people’s foreheads, beating up old people, smoking crystal meth, and that’s just for starters. Foster plays a young ex-con who’s trying to keep a steady job at a gym while out on parole, until a over-the-hill hotshot (played by Richard Masur) with an inferiority complex complains about dust on the a/c vents and sparks an obsessive, increasingly lethal game of one-upmanship. Rounding out the cast is Laura E. Campbell, Curtis McClarin and John Schiappa, who were all present to toast the show’s official first night in the big, bad city. Click to see the Dust gang