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in case you missed the memo…BRIDGE STREET THEATRE IS BACK!</span></p>
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performance has returned to one of this region’s most exciting, creative, and
innovative small theatre companies! Our recent production of Fred Barton’s MISS
GULCH RETURNS! was a huge critical and audience success (both onstage and
online). Coming to our “Priscilla” Mainstage in the remaining months of 2021:
MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ winner Samuel D. Hunter’s funny, touching, and deeply
resonant new play LEWISTON (October 7-17), a live screening of JD Urban’s
stunning documentary film about the Bridge Street Belly Dance Project BEFORE
(October 23), Eugene O’Neill’s monumental American tragedy LONG DAY’S JOURNEY
INTO NIGHT (November 11-21). And Fat Knight Theatre (whose CHIPANDGUS was a BST
highlight back in 2017) brings their rolling world premiere of John Ahlin’s MY
WITCH, starring Jean Tafler as Margaret Hamilton (who created the role of
Almira Gulch/Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film classic “The Wizard of
Oz”), to our theatre for two weekends December 3-12.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This
2021 “American Roots: Re-Awakened” Season has been sponsored by a generous gift
from Nina Matis and Alan Gosule, and by a pair of ReStart NY Grants from the
New York State Council on the Arts. And all our programming is made possible by
NYSCA with the support of the Governor of New York and the New York State
Legislature, by Public Funds from the Greene County Legislature through the
Cultural Fund administered in Greene County by the Greene County Council on the
Arts dba CREATE, and, of course, by the generosity (and attendance) of you, our
loyal audience.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We’re
doing everything we can to make your experience here as safe and enjoyable as
possible – we’ve limited our already small audience capacity to 50% so that
social distancing is possible (don’t worry, every single seat in our intimate
Mainstage space is a great one), we’ve installed new air-purification and
ventilation systems to help “clear the air”, all areas (including our public
restrooms) are cleaned and disinfected between performances, and all patrons
and staff must display proof of vaccination prior to entry and remain masked at
all times while in the building.</span></p>
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visit <a href="http://bridgest.org">bridgest.org</a> for further details on our safety protocols, as well as
everything we’ve got coming up for you. We can’t wait to welcome you back IN
PERSON!</span></p></div>