Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” Brings Bridge Street Theatre’s “Spring Classics” Series to a Close

Bridge Street Theatre presentsAnton Chekhov’sUNCLE VANYAin a new adaptation by Conor McPherson May 9 – 19, 2024 The disruptive presence of a “retired” university professor and his much-younger wife upsets the routine lives of the inhabitants of a small rural Russian estate, causing polite facades to crumble and long repressed…

REVIEW: “Sympathetic Magic” at Bridge Street Theatre

by Jessica Hoffman Bridge Street Theater takes audiences to 1990s San Francisco with its production ofSympathetic Magic: a play about very smart people making very questionable decisions. Twoastrophysicists, a university chair, a sculptor, a choirmaster, an elderly anthropologist, herassistant, and a gay priest make up the cast of enigmatic characters…

Bridge Street Theatre Presents A Neglected Lanford Wilson Masterpiece

Bridge Street Theatre presentsA Late Masterpiece from Playwright Lanford WilsonSYMPATHETIC MAGICNovember 9 – 19, 2023 In early November, a virtually forgotten masterpiece of the American stage comes to vibrant life on the intimate stage of Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre. A rare revival of Lanford Wilson’s spellbinding ensemble drama “Sympathetic Magic”…

REVIEW: “A Long Day’s Journey Into Night” at Bridge Street Theatre

by Macey Levin The Bridge Street Theatre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night is the fastest three hours I have ever spent in a theatre. Situated in Catskill, New York, this intimate theatre has produced one interesting and provocative play after another.  The performances and the technical…

O’Neill’s Epic “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” Comes to Catskill November 11-21

It’s the Mount Everest of American drama. Arguably the greatest play written by a native dramatist in the 20th Century. And this towering masterpiece of world theater is coming to Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre (that just won the “Best of Greene County” award for the third time) for eight performances only,…

REVIEW: “Lewiston” at Bridge Street Theatre

by Barbara Waldinger One of the most emotionally affecting scenes of the recent theatrical season can be found on the stage of the Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, New York.  In Lewiston, actors Leigh Strimbeck and Daniel Hall Kuhn bring such heartbreaking depth to Samuel D. Hunter’s complex characters that…

Bridge Street Theatre Presents “Lewiston”

Bridge Street Theatre presentsLEWISTONby MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Award Winner Samuel D. Hunterwith Montana Lampert Hoover, Daniel Hall Kuhn, and Leigh StrimbeckDirected by Sara Lampert HooverSet Design by John SowleLighting Design by Nicholas HawrylkoCostumes by Michelle RogersSound Design by Carmen BorgiaProduction Stage Manager: Liz PowersThursdays thru Sundays, October 7 – 17, 2021Bridge…

REVIEW: “Better” at Bridge Street Theatre

by DL Simmons The set-up is inspired (literally): In 2010, a respected Alabama biology professor shot and killed three of her colleagues in cold blood. Defeated after a long and humiliating tenure review, the wife and mother of four opened fire in a faculty meeting with a gun her family…