[Capdist-announce] Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre Announces Its 2022 Mainstage Season

Steven Patterson kaliyuga.steven at gmail.com
Mon Feb 21 14:20:26 EST 2022


Bridge Street Theatre, one of the most adventurous and exciting small
theater companies in the Hudson Valley region, is delighted to announce its
upcoming 2022 Mainstage Season – five full evenings (or afternoons if you
choose to attend matinee performances) of thrilling, provocative, and
innovative work that celebrate survival during these uncertain times.
Currently slated for production on BST’s Priscilla Mainstage, located at 44
West Bridge Street in the Village of Catskill, are:

CLARKSTON by Samuel D. Hunter (Regional Premiere)
April 28 – May 8. Directed by Daniel Elihu Kramer
Jake and Chris meet while working the night shift at the Costco in
Clarkston, Washington. Jake has fled his privileged life in Connecticut
after being diagnosed with a fatal illness. Chris, a would-be writer with a
meth-addicted mom, is stuck in what he fears is a dead-end life in a
dead-end town. Their tentative attraction develops into something deeper,
scarier, and more intimate in Samuel D. Hunter’s heartbreaking and
ultimately hopeful companion piece to BST’s 2021 production of LEWISTON.

FOURTEEN FUNERALS by Eric Pfeffinger (East Coast Premiere)
June 2 – 12. Directed by Sara Lampert Hoover
City girl Sienna is surprised to learn that a freak fireworks accident in
her old hometown of Blissfield, Indiana, has carried off every single
member of the estranged extended family she never really knew. Even more
surprising is that, as the very last of the Fitchwoods, she’s expected to
deliver separate eulogies for every one of them. But most surprising of all
is the un-looked-for relationship that blooms between Sienna and Millie,
the oddly perky receptionist at the Blissfield funeral home, in this
unexpectedly hilarious new comedy in its second production ever!

SHELLEY’S SHADOW by Brad Fraser (World Premiere).
September 8 – 18. Directed by John Sowle
BST’s first-ever new play commission! Out of work, out of money, and out of
ideas, David, a writer in his 60s, gives up his condo and moves into a
run-down high-rise apartment building in downtown Toronto. There, his life
becomes inexorably entangled in that of his upstairs neighbor Shelley – a
gregarious lesbian in her 80s with encroaching Alzheimer’s-related dementia
– and her long-time canine companion Shadow – a talking dog. The curious
story of a reluctant care-taker who becomes the backbone of what slowly
turns into a kind of family.

SEXUAL MISCONDUCT OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES by Hanna Moscovitch (U.S. Premiere)
October 13 – 23. Directed by Margo Whitcomb
After his third marriage falls apart, Jon, an acclaimed novelist and a star
professor, is racked with guilt when he finds himself becoming attracted to
one of his students. Nineteen-year-old Annie is a big fan of his work and,
coincidently, just happens to live right down the street. As their mutual
admiration grows and the sexual tension escalates, the archetypal
student-teacher romance gets turned on its head in this compelling new
play, winner of the 2021 Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award for
English-Language Drama.

THE LION IN WINTER by James Goldman
November 10 – 20. Directed by John Sowle
“Well, what family doesn’t have its ups and downs?” Merry Christmas, 1183!
King Henry II has just released his estranged wife Eleanor from prison so
that the entire back-stabbing royal family can spend the holiday together.
He’s getting on in years and a succession must be mapped out. But which of
their three sons will end up on the throne? The knives are out, and it
looks like this is one Christmas where nobody is going to get what they
want. A contemporary American classic (even if it IS set in England).

In another first, Bridge Street Theatre has commissioned local visual
artist Agam Neiman to create individual paintings for each of the shows in
this season’s line-up. Look for these stunning artworks on posters, flyers,
and in other publicity materials from the theatre soon!

In his 2021 year-end Arts round-up last December, critic Steve Barnes
called BST “as good as theatre gets.” If you’re a fan of theatre that
genuinely makes you think and feel, you won’t want to miss out on any of
the extraordinary experiences in store for you this season at this
three-time winner of “Best Theatre/Performance Space” at the annual Best of
Greene County Awards. For more details, visit the theatre’s website at
BridgeStreetTheatre.org.

Events at Bridge Street Theatre are supported in part by the New York State
Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor of New York and the
New York State Legislature and by Public Funds from the Greene County
Legislature through the Cultural Fund administered in Greene County by the
Greene County Council on the Arts.
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