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 Written by Scott Carter, the full name of this play is The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord. These three titans find themselves locked in a room somewhere in the Hereafter. The room is furnished with three chairs, a table that…
An American, an Englishman, and a Russian walk into?hey, stop me if you’ve heard this one. Coming to Catskill November 14-24, 2024, the closing production in Bridge Street Theatre‘s 10th Anniversary Season – Scott Carter’s outrageous comedy “The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord”.…
by Macey Levin Following its marvelous production this past year of The Glass Menagerie, Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, New York, has chosen another classic play and created a beautifully acted and poignant production. Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, which takes place in Ukraine, originally produced by Konstantin Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre in 1899, has gained…
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…
