“Well, what family doesn’t have its ups and downs?” Merry Christmas, 1183! King Henry II has just released his estranged wife Eleanor from prison so that the entire back-stabbing royal family can spend the holiday together. He’s getting on in years and a succession plan needs to be mapped out.…
by Barbara Waldinger In describing Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, director Margo Whitcomb refers to “the common and overused device of an older celebrity professor and a young female student.” What makes this play unique is that Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch has written it from the male point of…
“And a dim image came to him. It was of a girl in a red coat…” Rehearsals are currently under way in Catskill for the second play in Bridge Street Theatre’s 2022 Fall Mainstage Season. The U.S. premiere of Hannah Moscovitch’s award-winning “Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes” will be…
by Macey Levin Anyone who has been or is a caretaker for a victim of dementia knows the emotional turmoil it causes. What seems to start as a simple element of aging grows into a life-changing responsibility. One’s personal time no longer exists. Quietude no longer exists. In some cases…
Over at Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, we’ve just launched into rehearsals for the first play in our 2022 Fall Mainstage Season. For the first time ever, we’ve commissioned a playwright to create a totally new work to be presented on our “Priscilla” Mainstage. Based on actual events, Brad Fraser’s…
Bridge Street Theatre, one of the most adventurous and exciting small theater companies in the Hudson Valley region, is delighted to announce that they have completed casting for their 2022 Fall Mainstage Season – eleven brilliant actors in three scintillating, provocative, and innovative plays, including a world premiere commissioned especially…
Strange things can happen when you go home again to a place you never really knew. Audiences will discover that for themselves when Eric Pfeffinger’s surprisingly side-splitting “Fourteen Funerals” hits Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre for eight performances only, June 2-12. After a mysterious phone call draws bi-racial Chicago girl Sienna…
by Macey Levin Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, New York, often does extraordinary work, witness last year’s brilliant production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Last season they presented an exquisite rendering of Samuel D. Hunter’s Lewiston. Playwright Hunter recently opened A Case For The Existence of God on off-Broadway…
