‘Little Bear Ridge Road’ Broadway review: Laurie Metcalf plays the world’s most abrasive aunt

NEW YORK — “Little Bear Ridge Road” appears to take place somewhere like the surface of the moon, its characters dwarfed by a looming void. Like most of Samuel D. Hunter’s work, the prolific playwright’s Broadway debut is set in his home state, a geographically sparse but imaginatively fertile Idaho. In this starkly grand staging from director Joe Mantello, one tilt of the axis and it appears these people might simply vanish into space.