Two world tours! 45 cities! Over 200 performances world-wide! And now, in collaboration with NYC?s White Horse Theater Company, Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre closes out its 2024 SoloFest with the legendary downtown performance artist Penny Arcade in her one-woman show “Longing Lasts
Longer”, being presented for three performances only March 22-24, 2024.
A unique blend of stand-up comedy and memoir set in a riveting rock-and-roll soundscape mixed live onstage by Penny Arcade’s collaborator of 29 years Steve Zehentner, “Longing Lasts Longer” has been performed all over the globe, winning three top festival prizes in Edinburgh and Adelaide. It’s a fierce, visionary, and ultimately forward-looking critique of the erasure of history, the rise of nostalgia, and the pervasiveness of cultural amnesia created by international gentrification – a crack in our planet’s post-gentrified landscape, shining a light on the path to individual authenticity. As the new tide of political correctness threatens to sink radical comedy under the weight of New York City’s suburbanization,
this international performance legend, whose name has become globally synonymous with “Downtown New York Art”, makes it safe to think and laugh at the same time again! “Longing Lasts Longer” is an evening of dangerous ideas and radical inquiry into what it means to be human, right now! Right here!
This is kick-ass comedy with guts! Penny Arcade has never wavered or relaxed in her quest to entertain, challenge, and expand both herself and her audience. No one in theatre, comedy, or rock-and-roll does anything even remotely similar. She combines poetics, comedy, and rock-and-roll into what can only be called cultural critique you can dance to! The camaraderie between her and longtime collaborator Steve Zehentner, as he live mixes the unique sound score made up of 100 song loops from some of the best popular music of the past 60 years, is absolutely infectious! You?ll be dancing in your seat!
“Longing Lasts Longer” will be presented Friday March 22 and Saturday March 23 at 7:30pm and Sunday March 24 at 2:00pm on Bridge Street Theatre’s “Priscilla Mainstage”, located at 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill, NY.
Advance tickets for all performances can be purchased online at bridgest.org/24solofest4-tickets/ or at the door (subject to availability) one-half hour before each performance. General Admission price is $25 or $10 for Students ages 18 and under. Make your reservations now! You don’t want to miss what’s sure to be the smartest, most audacious, most irresistible party in town!
*Performance Calendar: *Bridge Street Theatre in collaboration with White Horse Theater Company presents Show #4 in BST’s 2024 SoloFest
*LONGING LASTS LONGER *
Written, Conceived, and Performed by International Performance Legend Penny Arcade
With Design, Direction, and Live Sound Mixing by Steve Zehentner
Three Performances Only!
Friday March 22 @ 7:30pm
Saturday March 23 @ 7:30pm
Sunday March 24 @ 2:00pm
Bridge Street Theatre?s ?Priscilla? Mainstage
44 West Bridge Street, Catskill, NY
https://bridgest.org/24solofest4/
*Tickets: *General Admission $25, Students ages 18 and under $10
Tickets available in advance online at https://bridgest.org/24solofest4-tickets/ or at the door (on a space
available basis) one-half hour before each performance
* About the Artists: Penny Arcade* debuted in 1968 at 18 with New York’s explosive Play-House of the Ridiculous, the seminal, rock and roll, queer, glitter/glam, political performance theater that influenced everything from “Hair” to Punk. A Warhol Superstar at 19 featured in the 1972 Warhol/Morrissey comedy, “Women in Revolt”. Penny is the author of over 16 full-length plays and hundreds of solo performance pieces. She is an independent artist who’s active career spans over 50 years, contributing to new art forms for every decade since the 1960’s. A highly influential performance and experimental theatre artist, her magnetic stage presence has brought her international renown, her compassionate yet unflinching honesty has influenced generations of artists everywhere, making her an icon of artistic resistance.
*White Horse Theater Company* *(Production Collaborator) *is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing and developing American plays. We seek to investigate and celebrate American culture by
re-examining American classics and nurturing new American voices. We aim to champion great American playwrights by revitalizing their masterworks and shedding new light on their seldom-produced works. We strive to support emerging American playwrights by offering them developmental readings, labs and workshops. White Horse is committed to making high-quality theater and
we aim to share our passion for American plays and playwrights with our fellow artists and audiences. www.whitehorsetheater.com
*Events at Bridge Street Theatre are supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor of New York and the New York State Legislature and by Public Funds from the Greene County Legislature.*