Round the Bend Theatre’s annual festival of new plays continues at Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, NY, through the end of August. Tickets are only $15. Check out these plays!
Monday, June 29, 2026 – 7:00 PM EDT
The Super Bowl has begun, everyone is hyped and ready to watch. In this comedy-drama, old friends, and new friends, fight old battles, begin new ones, learn secrets and choose sides. Some still try to enjoy this one night event.
Loving Vivian, A New Musical by Timothy Brown & Daniel Chadwick
Monday, July 13, 2026 – 7:00 PM EDT
At 82, Vivian, a legendary singer, actress, and songwriter, is incommunicative with dementia. When she moves into her daughter Eleanor’s home everyone in the family is excited, except Eleanor. When her son brings home an avid Vivian fan and would-be biographer who knows how to get Vivian talking lucidly about her checkered past, Eleanor becomes even more uneasy. What secrets might be revealed?
The Goodness Robot by Paul Allman
Monday, July 27, 2026 – 7:00 PM EDT
A devastating explosion kills hundreds of people and collapses a building. Searchers are looking for survivors. A robot designed for such emergencies – The Goodness Robot – is dispatched to the scene of the crime. Her name is Shelley, and she is fearless by design.
Let There Be by Stephen Kaplan
Monday, August 10, 2026 – 7:00 PM EDT
In 1883, two women—one married to the scientist inventing the lightbulb, the other to the reverend resisting it—sit down over birthday cake to debate the future. Sides aren’t what you expect and parlor talk jolts from lightbulbs to AI in a reality-bending collision of past, present, and the terrifying hope of technology racing faster than we can reckon with.
Monday, August 24, 2026 – 7:00 PM EDT
A razor-sharp reimagining of Julius Caesar set inside a soaring AI startup. When Emor AI’s CEO slips an absolute-power clause into the company’s IPO filing, her co-founders face a brutal choice: loyalty or revolt? At once a hilarious sendup of corporate culture and a searing exploration of power in the algorithm age, Julia C asks: In a world where truth is malleable and leadership is a brand, who deserves to rule?
Round The Bend Theatre is a mobile theater company with a mission to encourage Hudson Valley playwrights and their work in development. Through the process of inclusive readings and reflection, new voices are nurtured for future work.