A rare revival of a neglected masterpiece of the American stage. Lanford Wilson’s spellbinding ensemble drama “Sympathetic Magic” comes to Bridge Street Theatre’s intimate “Priscilla” Mainstage, 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill, NY, for a two-weekend run November 9 – 19, 2023. This stunning, virtually forgotten work ponders the cosmic implications of everyday actions in…
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SYMPATHETIC MAGIC
A rare revival of a neglected masterpiece of the American stage. Lanford Wilson’s spellbinding ensemble drama “Sympathetic Magic” comes to Bridge Street Theatre’s intimate “Priscilla” Mainstage, 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill, NY, for a two-weekend run November 9 – 19, 2023. This stunning, virtually forgotten work ponders the cosmic implications of everyday actions in…
FROM BEING WHERE YOU WERE Intensity 20.15: Grace Chase by Claire Chase together with This is Mary Brown by Winsome Brown
NOV 3, 7 PM NOV 4, 3 PM Two unique works celebrating the life force of powerfully spirited women. For the first time, Pauline Oliveros’ “Intensity 2015: Grace Chase” written for and performed by MacArthur Award and Avery Fisher prizewinning flutist Claire Chase, and Winsome Brown’s poignant and hilarious play “This is Mary Brown” will…
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
One of just a handful of undisputed classics of the American stage, Tennessee Williams’ haunting “The Glass Menagerie” comes to Bridge Street Theatre’s intimate “Priscilla” Mainstage, located at 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill, NY, for a two-weekend run October 5 – 15, 2023. Originally premiered in 1944, William’s poetically autobiographical memory play catapulted its…
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
One of just a handful of undisputed classics of the American stage, Tennessee Williams’ haunting “The Glass Menagerie” comes to Bridge Street Theatre’s intimate “Priscilla” Mainstage, located at 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill, NY, for a two-weekend run October 5 – 15, 2023. Originally premiered in 1944, William’s poetically autobiographical memory play catapulted its…
I AM BARBIE
It’s Barbie’s 60th birthday (she still looks absolutely fabulous, by the way), and she celebrates by reminiscing with us about her innumerable careers, everyone’s obsession with her chest, her on-again-off-again relationship with Ken, and with other characters from her life including GI Joe, She-Ra, Skipper, Annette Funicello, Britney Spears, and her creators Ruth Handler and…
I AM BARBIE
It’s Barbie’s 60th birthday (she still looks absolutely fabulous, by the way), and she celebrates by reminiscing with us about her innumerable careers, everyone’s obsession with her chest, her on-again-off-again relationship with Ken, and with other characters from her life including GI Joe, She-Ra, Skipper, Annette Funicello, Britney Spears, and her creators Ruth Handler and…
“Save The Last Dance For Me” by Alessandro Sciarroni (Italy)
From Italian theatermaker Alessandro Sciarroni, recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance at the 2019 Venice Biennale, an inventive revival of the polka chinata, a nearly lost Bolognese courtship dance from the last century. The polka chinata (crouched polka) is a rarity in ballroom dancing: it was performed exclusively by pairs of…
EAST OF BERLIN by Hannah Moscovitch
“Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.” – Psalm 79: 7-9. When the son of an escaped Nazi war criminal (still alive and living in Paraguay) and the American-born daughter of an Auschwitz survivor meet and fall in…
RUDE MECHANICS
Nope, despite the title, it’s NOT about grease monkeys in an upstate NY auto repair shop. Instead, Eric Hissom’s fast, funny, slyly anachronistic, and scarily relevant new comedy about the insanity of trying to create theatre in the midst of a plague (sound familiar?) takes place on a snowy January evening in 1612 London. A…