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…
CATSKILL – Thus began letters from immigrants newly arrived in America to The Jewish Daily Forward for more than 60 years. Each writer was asking for help – whether trying to understand the habits of Americans, the complex legal system or the emotional pitfalls of dealing with employers, these newcomers couldn’t cope…
“To tell you the truth, I’m amazed we’re both still ambulatory,” groans Steven Patterson, one of the co-founders of Bridge Street Theatre. Patterson and his partner John Sowle, who converted a once-derelict factory building in the Village of Catskill into an arts complex early in 2014 and have since transformed…
In a small town on the Snake River in Washington, two young men from wildly different backgrounds discover a common connection while stocking shelves together on the night shift at Costco in Samuel D. Hunter’s “Clarkston”, coming to Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre for eight performances only April 28 – May…
CATSKILL – A Bintel Brief, Yiddish for “a bundle of letters” was the daily advice column which The Jewish Daily Forward ran for 80 years. In it, the newspaper’s wise and sometimes cranky editor dispensed shrewd, practical and fair-minded advice to his readership – newly arrived immigrants questioning how to manage life in this bewildering…
Saugerties’ Round the Bend Theatre presents a one-night-only reading of Erin Proctor’s “Alternative Canon: A Sacrilegious Romp” at 7:30pm on Monday, April 11, at Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill. Step aside, Abraham (and hang on, Hagar)! God has unveiled a brand-new plan for humanity and chosen a Prophet – a…
Round the Bend Theatre presents a staged reading of Anthony Leiner’s new comedy “Keeping Mary”. A VISITING PRODUCTION PLAYING AT BRIDGE STREET THEATRE SAT MARCH 12 @ 7:30 CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW! SUN MARCH 13 @ 2:00 In the play, Mary and Tim’s plans for a secret romantic rendezvous are…
