BRIDGE STREET THEATRE PRESENTSAmy Herzog’s Poignant, All-Female Ensemble Drama That Will Break Your Heart and Lift Your Spirit “MARY JANE”CATSKILL, NEW YORK – May 22 – June 1, 2025 – Bridge Street Theatre, one of the Hudson Valley’s most adventurous regional theatres, proudly presents *Obie* and *New York Drama Critics’…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Typically, I resist reviewing Shakespeare’s plays. I question my understanding and knowledge of the breadth of the Bard’s work to adequately assess a performance. However, I just finished Jodi Picoult’s latest novel, By Any Other Name, which questions whether Shakespeare was the sole playwright of all his…
Catskill, NY – April 17-27, 2025 – Bridge Street Theatre is thrilled to present Polishing Shakespeare, a razor-sharp, high-stakes battle between art and commerce, penned by acclaimed playwright Brian Dykstra and directed by Bridge Street Theatre Artistic Director, John Sowle. This critically lauded satire “delivered entirely in iambic pentameter” will…
by Macey Levin David Zellnik’s musical entitled “Yank” about gay soldiers during World War Two ran off-Broadway in 2005; it had several workshops in New York, but no Broadway producer or company took an option to produce it. In 2017 a production in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, sent Zellnik to…
The second play in Bridge Street Theatre’s “Solofest” is the world premiere of “Help! I’m Trapped In A One-Woman Show” featuring Broadway actress Kate Skinner. As the audience enters one of the songs we hear is Aretha Franklin’s “Natural Woman,” an obvious teaser as to what is coming. This play…
by Macey Levin Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, New York has begun its third “Solofest” with “Bent Compass” by Neil Brookshire and Colin Sesek. The creation of this play is a story unto itself. Brookshire and Sesek met in 2004 while working at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. When Sesek, an…
Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, New York, the region’s “most fearless professional stage company,” is currently accepting submissions for casting consideration from local Equity and non-Equity musical theatre performers for their Summer 2025 production of Carmen Borgia’s original musical, SOUTH: A NAUTICAL MUSICAL, directed by Timothy Dakin-Dunn and music directed by Carmen Borgia. Rehearsals begin in Catskill,…
Submissions for casting consideration from local Equity, EMC, and non-Equity actors are currently being accepted by Bridge Street Theatre, located at 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill, NY, for productions in its 2025 Mainstage Season. We are particularly in need of musical theater performers for our summer production of Carmen…
