[Capdist-announce] An All-Female Line-Up for Bridge Street Theatre’s 2024 SoloFest

[Steven Patterson]

March is Women’s History Month and, to celebrate, Catskill’s Bridge Street
Theatre has programmed an amazing all-female line-up for the 2024 edition
of its popular “SoloFest”. Beginning March 1st and continuing Fridays
through Sundays for four successive weekends, the award-winning theatre
will present “SoloFest 2024” – a mini-Festival of four original solo shows
– on its “Priscilla” Mainstage with a new show featured each week. And you
can bet it’s not only women who’ll find plenty to love in these eclectic,
innovative, and diverse pieces:

March 1 – 3:  *MIRELE LERNT ZICH YIDDISH (Mirele Learns Yiddish)* Written
and performed by Miryam Coppersmith

She’s a one-woman cabal out to reclaim a rich cultural heritage nearly
erased by persecution and assimilation. Dancing, songs, improv, puppets
(and a *bisl *Yiddish) – it’s a Klezmer Dance Party! And you’re invited!

March 8 – 10:  *TOP DRAWER*, a play with music. Written and performed by
Adelaide Mestre, with Doug Oberhamer at the piano. Directed by Coco Cohn

>From pre-revolutionary Cuba to Manhattan’s Upper East Side and back again,
Adelaide Mestre spins an autobiographical tale of family, trauma, triumph,
and the search for a lost piano that will make you laugh, cry, and maybe
even…sing!

March 15 – 17:  *THE GREAT DIVIDE* written and performed by Amy Crossman.
Directed by Scott Ebersold

Everything is fine!  No, seriously, no one’s got a drinking problem, and
the panic attacks are just, no, they’re – it’s fine, everything’s fine!! A
tragicomic roller coaster ride through loving, heartbreak, getting back up
and going on.

March 22 – 24:  *LONGING LASTS LONGER* created and performed by Penny
Arcade. Direction and design by Steve Zehentner. Presented in collaboration
with White Horse Theater Company

Kick ass comedy with guts! In a time of global gentrification and
historical erasure, international performance legend Penny Arcade mixes
poetics, comedy, and rock and roll into what can only be called a cultural
critique you can dance to!

“Our first SoloFest last March was such a phenomenal success, we would have
been crazy not to bring it back again this year,” says John Sowle, Bridge
Street Theatre’s Artistic and Managing Director. “These four women have
incredible stories to tell and very different and entertaining ways of
sharing them with audiences.”

Tickets for individual shows in “SoloFest 2024” are priced at $25, but you
can purchase a Festival Pass for admission to all four plays for only $75 –
that’s four shows for the price of three! And Students ages 18 and under
will be admitted for only $10 per show. For more information and to reserve
tickets in advance, visit the theatre’s website at
bridgest.org/solofest-2024/ and follow the appropriate links to purchase
individual tickets or the four-show SoloFest Pass.

Hilarious, touching, gripping, thought-provoking – Bridge Street Theatre’s
“SoloFest” promises four astonishing evenings (or afternoons) of
storytelling at its best! Head on over to 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill
this March and discover just how enthralling one person alone onstage can
be!


*Performance Calendar: *Bridge Street Theatre presents

*SoloFest 2024! *A Mini-Festival of Four One-Woman Shows

*MIRELE LERNT ZICH YIDDISH* (Mirele Learns Yiddish) by Miryam Coppersmith
(March 1-3)

*TOP DRAWER *by Adelaide Mestre (March 8-10)

*THE GREAT DIVIDE *by Amy Crossman (March 15-17)

*LONGING LASTS LONGER *by Penny Arcade (March 22-24)
Presented in collaboration with White Horse Theater Company

Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm, Sundays @ 2:00pm
Bridge Street Theatre’s “Priscilla” Mainstage
44 West Bridge Street, Catskill, NY


*Tickets: *Festival Passes and tickets for individual shows available in
advance online at https://bridgest.org/solofest-2024/ or at the door (on a
space available basis) one-half hour before each performance
General Admission $25, $10 for Students and Children ages 18 and under
Four-Show Festival Pass available for only $75

*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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