Adventurous Five-Play 2019 Season Announced for Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre

Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre is delighted to announce its 2019 line-up of plays – five magnificent and audacious stage works for audiences to savor between April and October.  It includes two world premieres, a Victorian comedy, an American classic and an astounding musical about The Shaggs. “2018 was a year…

REVIEW: “Casse Noisette” at Bridge Street Theatre

by Barbara Waldinger Casse Noisette, French for Nutcracker and subtitled A Fairy Ballet, is Bridge Street Theatre’s current World Premiere offering. Given these clues, audience members may be excused for expecting Balanchine’s ubiquitous holiday ballet, set to the familiar score of Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky, based on Hoffmann’s famous fairy tale. …

REVIEW: “There Is A Happiness That Morning Is” at Bridge Street Theatre

by Barbara Waldinger Imagine a play about the poetry of William Blake, one of the most complex writers ever known, written in rhymed couplets (like Blake’s poems), featuring a pair of actors portraying university professors who have been lecturing on this poet for the past fifteen years.  Bridge Street Theatre,…

REVIEW: “Leni” at Bridge Street Theatre

by Barbara Waldinger For the past four years, Bridge Street Theatre has laudably dared to present challenging plays with highly controversial central characters.  Following up on last year’s depiction, in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the Moon Marigolds, of a mother whose verbal and emotional abuse threatens to destroy…

REVIEW: “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune” at Bridge Street Theatre

by Macey Levin Terrence McNally is one of America’s foremost yet underrated playwrights.  The Tony Award winning author of Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class as well as The Lisbon Traviata; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Ragtime and many others has a penchant for realistic dialogue that makes an audience feel…

Final Play Added to the 2018 Season at Bridge Street Theatre

Hallelujah! Bridge Street Theatre has at last been able to nail down the remaining play in its 2018 Theatre Subscription Series. Now slated for a two-weekend run from September 6 – 16 is Chicago-area playwright Mickle Maher’s joyous and unexpectedly raucous celebration of art, ardor, and inappropriately public displays of affection (written…

2018 Season Announced for Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre

Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre is delighted to announce its 2018 line-up of plays –  five magnificent and deeply human stories for audiences to savor between March and November. Currently scheduled for BST’s third Mainstage Subscription Season are: FRANKIE & JOHNNY IN THE CLAIRE DE LUNE by Terrence McNally (March 29-April 8)…