[Capdist-announce] Casting Announced for Bridge Street Theatre’s 2023 Fall Season

[Steven Patterson]

Bridge Street Theatre, one of the most exciting and adventurous small
theater companies in the Hudson Valley region, is thrilled to announce that
they have
completed casting for their 2023 Fall Mainstage Season – sixteen
magnificently talented actors in three funny, moving, provocative, and
innovative productions, including an East Coast premiere, a neglected
masterwork from one of the American theatre’s most
cherished playwrights, and a beloved American classic.

Currently slated for presentation at BST this autumn are:

I AM BARBIE by Walton Beacham (East Coast Premiere)
August 31 – September 10. Directed by Rob Maitner
It’s Barbie’s 60th Birthday (she’s still looking absolutely FABULOUS, by
the way), and she celebrates by looking back on her innumerable careers,
her on-again-off-again
relationship with Ken, and with other characters from her life including GI
Joe, She-Ra, Skipper, and her creators, Ruth Handler and Jack Ryan. A
hilarious and surprisingly
touching look at what it’s like to be a Barbie Girl in a not-so-Barbie
world. Come for the laughs, leave with a lump in your throat. Featured in
the cast are Olivia Sargent
(Barbie), Max Kantor (Ken/GI Joe/Cowboy/Jack Ryan), Amanda Ferguson
(Ruth Handler/Annette Funicello), and Natalie Arneson
(She-Ra/Skipper/Britney Spears/Danica Patrick/Waitress).

THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams
October 5 - 15. Directed by Steven Patterson
One of a handful of undisputed American classics. Tennessee Williams’
poetically autobiographical memory play premiered in 1944 and catapulted
its young author from obscurity into fame (and notoriety). We’re presenting
Williams’ moving remembrance of family ties, lost dreams, and shattered
illusions in its original version with incidental music composed for the
initial production by Paul Bowles. Featured in the cast areLeigh Strimbeck
(Amanda Wingfield), Brett Mack (Tom Wingfield), Taylor Congdon (Laura
Wingfield), and Russell Sperberg (Jim O’Connor).

SYMPATHETIC MAGIC by Lanford Wilson
November 9 – 19. Directed by John Sowle
This late and little-known work by one of America’s most revered
playwrights ponders the cosmic implications of everyday actions in the
story of a young astrophysicist who makes a potentially world-changing
discovery just at the moment his long-time companion, a sculptor on the
verge of a brilliant career, finds she is pregnant with his
child. Featured in the brilliant ensemble cast are Brian Sheppard (Ian
“Andy” Anderson), Molly Parker Myers (Barbara De Biers), Seth McNeill (Don
Walker), Timothy Dunn (Pauly Scott), Abby Burris (Sue Olmstead), Nico Ager
(Mickey Picco), Terry Sidell (Liz Barnard), and Steven Patterson (Carl
Conklin White).

Advance tickets for all three plays are now available for purchase. Just
visit bridgest.org and click on the appropriate links. All three
productions will be presented in the theatre’sintimate 84-seat “Priscilla”
Mainstage, located at 44 West Bridge Street in the Village of Catskill.

If you love plays that genuinely make you think and feel, performances that
lodge in your mind and heart, and productions that you’ll be discussing for
weeks, months, even years after the curtain falls, you won’t want to miss
any of the extraordinary experiences in store for you this Fall at this
five-time winner of “Best Theatre/Performance Space” at the annual Best of
Greene County Awards. We can’t wait to share these stories with you!

*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. Bridge Street Theatre’s entire 2023 Season is sponsored by
generous donations from Mary E. Barrett  and Ted and Mary Neumann in memory
of Helmut and Emily Neumann.*

*Artwork by Dina Bursztyn and Julie Chase*
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