[Capdist-announce] Bridge Street Theatre’s SoloFest Show #3 – Amy Crossman’s “The Great Divide”

[Steven Patterson]

Picture this: a trashy NYC apartment, and a dress that's maybe a bit too
daring. A New Year's Eve bash where your latest crush is the only familiar
face in the room. Every glance, every laugh, every drink could potentially
lead to either your own unique "Meet Cute" or possibly a brutal rejection.
Which way will things go? That’s the dilemma facing writer/performer Amy
Crossman in her solo show “The Great Divide” being presented at Catskill’s
Bridge Street Theatre May 15-17 as part of BST’s 2024 SoloFest.

This darkly comic play, brilliantly directed by Scott Ebersold, was borne
out of a situation the playwright found herself in several years ago. “At
that time, I felt like my experience of grief was far messier and more
complicated – and dare I say ugly – than was culturally or socially
acceptable, and I felt really isolated and alone. There were a lot of
‘shoulds’ that were floating through the air back then for me, and I wanted
to write a play that gave voice to the non-linear and messy experience I
was having. The show’s about a young woman navigating all that, and also
like, navigating love. There’s a lot of love in this play. Or a lot of
searching for it, at least.”

What can you do to ease the pain when a relationship you hoped would last
forever fades away and then abruptly – ends? Alternately hysterically
funny, heartbreaking, and totally relatable, Amy Crossman’s one-woman play
is a comedic exploration of what it means to love, to have your heart
broken, and then to make a fresh start after the storm.

“The Great Divide” will be presented for three performances only – Friday
March 15 and Saturday March 16 at 7:30pm and Sunday March 17 at 2:00pm.
Bridge Street Theatre is located at 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill, NY.
Advance tickets for all performances can be purchased online at
bridgest.org/24solofest3-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.

>From the birth of love to its shattering loss, “The Great Divide” is a wild
roller coaster ride you won’t want to miss. Visit
bridgest.org/solofest-2024/ for more information about this and all the
other shows in this year’s Bridge Street Theatre SoloFest.



*Performance Calendar: *Bridge Street Theatre presents
Show #3 in BST’s 2024 SoloFest

*THE GREAT DIVIDE *Written and performed by Amy Crossman
Directed by Scott Ebersold
Three Performances Only!
Friday March 15 @ 7:30pm
Saturday March 16 @ 7:30pm
Sunday March 17 @ 2:00pm
Bridge Street Theatre’s “Priscilla” Mainstage
44 West Bridge Street, Catskill, NY


*Tickets: *General Admission $25, Students ages 18 and under $10
Tickets available in advance online at
https://bridgest.org/24solofest3-tickets/ or at the door (on a space
available basis) one-half hour before each performance



* About the Artists: Amy Crossman* *(writer/performer) *is an AEA actor,
teaching artist, playwright, and sometimes clown. As an actor, she’s worked
with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Boomerang Theatre Company, The
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and
Chenango River Theatre, among other places. As a teacher, she’s taught at
HVSF, PSF, Barrington Stage Company, Queens Theatre, Hangar Theatre, and
Manhattan Theatre Club, as well as privately. She’s studied with a lot of
kind and funny people including Judy Gold, Chris Bayes, Karl Bury, and Mark
H. Dold. She loves Diet Coke, Harry Potter, and therapy.

*Scott Ebersold **(Director)* is a New York-based director of theatre who
specializes in new plays, musicals, and reinventing classics. He was the
director of the Off-Broadway premier of Max Vernon’s “The View UpStairs”
which was nominated for the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Awards for best
new musical, and an AUDELCO Award for best director. Other credits include
Dan Marshall, Becca Blackmore, and Julian Blackmore’s “The Peculiar Tale of
the Prince of Bohemia and the Society of Desperate Victorians” (Goodspeed
Opera House); Briandaniel Oglesby’s “Small Steps” (Portland Center Stage);
Bobby Cronin and Crystal Skillman’s “Concrete Jungle” (DDM Productions);
Jordan Seavey’s “Children At Play” (Collaboration Town); “Explorers
Concert” (NYMF); Kari Bentley-Quinn’s “Paper Cranes”; Andrew Lippa’s “Wild
Party” (Post Theatre); Joshua Conkel’s “America You Kill Me”; Alejandro
Morales’s “the silent concerto” (FringeNYC Best Director); and
“expat/inferno” (FringeNYC Best Production). He was an Artistic Associate
at Classic Stage Company, a Literary Associate at Tectonic Theatre, and the
founder of Packawallop Productions. MFA Columbia University.


Photo Credit: Isaiah Tanenbaum


*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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