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Bridge Street Theatre Announces Auditions for “Better”

Bridge Street Theatre Announces Auditions for “Better”

Bridge Street Theatre is seeking AEA and non-union talent for:

BETTER

World Premiere Production of a play by Michelle Carter

Theatre: Bridge Street Theatre, 44 W. Bridge Street, Catskill, NY 12414 ( bridgest.org)

Director: Sara Lampert Hoover

Artistic Director and Production Designer: John Sowle

First rehearsal: August 27. Rehearsals Tuesdays through Sundays.

Opening/Closing: September 12-22,…

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Bridge Street Theatre Presents “There is a Happiness That Morning Is”

Bridge Street Theatre Presents “There is a Happiness That Morning Is”

A crumbling Liberal Arts College in rural New England is the setting for Chicago-area playwright Mickle Maher’s “There is a Happiness That Morning Is”, an unexpectedly raucous and joyously word-drunk celebration of art, ardor, and academia.

For twenty years, two professors have been carrying on a secret love affair while simultaneously lecturing on the poetry of William Blake – he on “Songs of…

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Bridge Street’s “Leni” Delves Into the Life of Controversial Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl

Bridge Street’s “Leni” Delves Into the Life of Controversial Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl

What happens to artists when they allow themselves – knowingly or unknowingly – to become cogs in a propaganda machine? This and other fascinating and complex moral and ethical issues are explored in the second production in Bridge Street Theatre’s five-play 2018 Subscription Series – Sarah Greenman’s Leni. Using the life of Hitler’s chosen filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl as a springboard, this…

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Terrence McNally Conjures a Contemporary Romance in Bridge Street’s “Frankie & Johnny”

Terrence McNally Conjures a Contemporary Romance in Bridge Street’s “Frankie & Johnny”

“Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts / Oh Lordy how they did love!” What begins as a one-night-stand turns into a tug of war between a short-order cook who sees a lifetime of love and adventure ahead and a waitress who’s been burned too many times in the past and is terrified of being hurt again in Terrence McNally’s contemporary American classic Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune, being…

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Learn More about "...Kieron and Jade" at Bridge Street Theatre

Learn More about “…Kieron and Jade” at Bridge Street Theatre

CATSKILL – The WORLD PREMIERE of Kieron Barry’s play, The Official Adventures of Kieron and Jade takes place on Thursday, April 20th at The Bridge Street Theatre, 44 W. Bridge Street, Catskill.  Barry was showcased locally in the enormously successful 2012 production of Tomorrow in the Battle at Stageworks/Hudson.  It was hailed by the Albany Times Union as “one of the most remarkable pieces of…

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Theater: The Art of Making a Comedy Work

Theater: The Art of Making a Comedy Work

CATSKILL – Kieron Barry’s new play, The Official Adventures of Kieron and Jade, is a comedy with pain and loss at its center.  “I needed it to be fizzy as champagne,” he said, “albeit with a shard of broken glass at the bottom.  The story is something awful and grief laden that makes a room full of people laugh.” Barry is referring to his collapsed real-life relationship with a singer-songwriter…

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