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…
CASTING CALL Radio Play/Live Performance Date: May 3, 2025 Location: Catskill NY Staged reading of episodes 1-2 with live audience and live radio broadcast. (90 min performance) Brief Description: “The Case of the Mysterious Lenticular Glass” is a historical fiction/radio drama that is set simultaneously in 1899 as Marietta, a…
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…
“Papa said it was a curse. That Blakelock was cursed. Papa said because Blakelock was his dad he carried it too, and that I have it.He said I had him in my blood.That I was just like him.”  The tragic and nearly forgotten life of painter Ralph Albert Blakelock is reclaimed by his…
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…
“Papa said it was a curse. That Blakelock was cursed. Papa said because Blakelock was his dad he carried it too, and that I have it. He said I had him in my blood. That I was just like him.” The tragic and nearly forgotten life of painter Ralph Albert…
An investigation into a young Brazillian artist’s mysterious death leads an American playwright on a profound journey of introspection in “O Time” being presented at Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre March 21-23 as the third installment in BST’s SoloFest 2025. Written and performed by David Zellnik (“Yank!”) and directed by Danilo…
Alone in the world (as only a widow can be), Kate Skinner finds herself “trapped in a one-woman show? in a new ?one-woman show” called “Help! I’m Trapped in a One-Woman Show!”, receiving its world premiere March 14-16 as Show #Two in Bridge Street Theatre‘s SoloFest 2025. “Help!…” tells the…
