[Capdist-announce] The Legendary Penny Arcade Closes Out Bridge Street Theatre’s SoloFest

[Steven Patterson]

Two world tours! 45 cities! Over 200 performances world-wide! And now, in
collaboration with NYC’s White Horse Theater Company, Catskill’s Bridge
Street Theatre closes out its 2024 SoloFest with the legendary downtown
performance artist Penny Arcade in her one-woman show “Longing Lasts
Longer”, being presented for three performances only March 22-24, 2024.

A unique blend of stand-up comedy and memoir set in a riveting
rock-and-roll soundscape mixed live onstage by Penny Arcade’s collaborator
of 29 years Steve Zehentner, “Longing Lasts Longer” has been performed all
over the globe, winning three top festival prizes in Edinburgh and
Adelaide. It’s a fierce, visionary, and ultimately forward-looking critique
of the erasure of history, the rise of nostalgia, and the pervasiveness of
cultural amnesia created by international gentrification – a crack in our
planet’s post-gentrified landscape, shining a light on the path to
individual authenticity. As the new tide of political correctness threatens
to sink radical comedy under the weight of New York City's suburbanization,
this international performance legend, whose name has become globally
synonymous with "Downtown New York Art”, makes it safe to think and laugh
at the same time again! “Longing Lasts Longer” is an evening of dangerous
ideas and radical inquiry into what it means to be human, right now! Right
here!

This is kick-ass comedy with guts! Penny Arcade has never wavered or
relaxed in her quest to entertain, challenge, and expand both herself and
her audience. No one in theatre, comedy, or rock-and-roll does anything
even remotely similar. She combines poetics, comedy, and rock-and-roll into
what can only be called cultural critique you can dance to! The camaraderie
between her and longtime collaborator Steve Zehentner, as he live mixes the
unique sound score made up of 100 song loops from some of the best popular
music of the past 60 years, is absolutely infectious! You’ll be dancing in
your seat!

“Longing Lasts Longer” will be presented Friday March 22 and Saturday March
23 at 7:30pm and Sunday March 24 at 2:00pm on  Bridge Street Theatre’s
“Priscilla Mainstage, located at 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill, NY.
Advance tickets for all performances can be purchased online at
bridgest.org/24solofest4-tickets/ or at the door (subject to availability)
one-half hour before each performance. General Admission price is $25 or
$10 for Students ages 18 and under. Make your reservations now! You don’t
want to miss what’s sure to be the smartest, most audacious, most
irresistible party in town!

Photo Credit: Albie Mitchell


*Performance Calendar: *Bridge Street Theatre
in collaboration with White Horse Theater Company
presents Show #4 in BST’s 2024 SoloFest

*LONGING LASTS LONGER *Written, Conceived, and Performed by International
Performance Legend Penny Arcade
With Design, Direction, and Live Sound Mixing by Steve Zehentner
Three Performances Only!
Friday March 22 @ 7:30pm
Saturday March 23 @ 7:30pm
Sunday March 24 @ 2:00pm
Bridge Street Theatre’s “Priscilla” Mainstage
44 West Bridge Street, Catskill, NY
https://bridgest.org/24solofest4/


*Tickets: *General Admission $25, Students ages 18 and under $10
Tickets available in advance online at
https://bridgest.org/24solofest4-tickets/ or at the door (on a space
available basis) one-half hour before each performance



* About the Artists: Penny Arcade* debuted in 1968 at 18 with New York’s
explosive Play-House of the Ridiculous, the seminal, rock and roll, queer,
glitter/glam, political performance theater that influenced everything from
“Hair” to Punk. A Warhol Superstar at 19 featured in the 1972
Warhol/Morrissey comedy, "Women in Revolt". Penny is the author of over 16
full-length plays and hundreds of solo performance pieces. She is an
independent artist who's active career spans over 50 years, contributing to
new art forms for every decade since the 1960’s. A highly influential
performance and experimental theatre artist , her magnetic stage presence
has brought her international renown, her compassionate yet unflinching
honesty has influenced generations of artists everywhere, making her an
icon of artistic resistance.

*White Horse Theater Company* *(Production Collaborator) *is a
not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing and developing American
plays. We seek to investigate and celebrate American culture by
re-examining American classics and nurturing new American voices. We aim to
champion great American playwrights by revitalizing their masterworks and
shedding new light on their seldom-produced works. We strive to support
emerging American playwrights by offering them developmental readings, labs
and workshops. White Horse is committed to making high-quality theater and
we aim to share our passion for American plays and playwrights with our
fellow
artists and audiences. www.whitehorsetheater.com


*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.*
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