August 2015
Kaliyuga Arts
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Big Works in The Big Room
Through August 29
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Riot with Three
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THE KILLING and THE LOVE DEATH
Whenever Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre and its
resident company Kaliyuga Arts turn their attention
to play production, it’s an occasion to sit up and
take notice. Already this year, area audiences have
been alternately shocked, delighted, inspired, and
moved by LARK EDEN, UP FROM THE GROUND, SIGN FELT!,
HOME FIRES BURNING, and THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH
alongside Bridge Street’s regular menu of music,
magic, and art installations. October will bring a
major revival of Oakley Hall III’s monumental
historical drama GRINDER’S STAND. But in the
meantime, audiences will have a rare opportunity to
view THE KILLING and THE LOVE DEATH, two late plays
by William Inge, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author
of such plays as PICNIC, BUS STOP, and COME BACK,
LITTLE SHEBA, that have just recently resurfaced.
Wildly successful initially – his first
four plays were all huge Broadway hits – Inge, like
Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee and
many other great American playwrights, fell into
critical disfavor for a time. He struggled with
depression and alcoholism and eventually committed
suicide in 1973. Housed among his papers at
Independence Community College in his Kansas
hometown, and previously available for viewing but
not copying or borrowing, about two dozen of Inge’s
later works have only recently been made available
for production. One of them, the full-length OFF THE
MAIN ROAD, received its world premiere this summer
at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in a production
starring Kyra Sedgewick and Estelle Parsons. THE
KILLING and THE LOVE DEATH are two gems in this
collection.
Kaliyuga Arts’ production of
THE KILLING and THE LOVE DEATH, directed and
designed by John Sowle and featuring actors Andrew
Colford and Steven Patterson, will be performed six
times only, on Friday and Saturday evenings at
7:30pm and Sundays at 2:00pm, from August 14 – 23.
General Admission is $15, $10 for Students and
Seniors, and reservations are suggested: (518)
943-3818 or online at BridgeSt.org. Bridge Street
Theatre is located at 44 West Bridge Street in the
Village of Catskill and ample free parking is
available on the street or in the Catskill High
School parking lot directly behind the theater
building.
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Andrew Colford (Huey/The Superintendent) Originally from the California Bay Area, Andrew went to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. After graduation he spent a year in Houston, TX as a Jesuit Volunteer. Other stage/screen credits: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Bristol Valley Theater), THE BETTER MAN (Unchained Festival), AFTER THE DANCE (Dirty Blondes), MY DIRTY LITTLE SECRET (Investigation Discovery), HACK MY LIFE (TruTV), MYSTERIES AT THE MUSEUM (Travel), and a commercial for American Collectors Insurance (Velocity). |
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Steven Patterson (Mac/Byron Todd) has performed regionally and in New York City with theaters such as Capital Repertory, Stageworks/Hudson, Lexington Conservatory Theatre, freeFall Theatre, South Coast Repertory, TheatreWorks, Kaliyuga Arts, and the Oregon, Orlando, Tennessee, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festivals. Favorite roles have included Lear in KING LEAR, Jean Genet in BEAUTY, Austin Wiggin in THE SHAGGS: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD, David in POOR SUPER MAN, Judi Boswell in HOW TO PRAY, and Jake Sturdy in KILL ME NOW. Co-founder of Kaliyuga Arts, he also serves as Associate Director of Bridge Street Theatre, where he recently appeared in a critically-acclaimed one-man adaptation of THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH. |
John Sowle (Director & Designer) is Managing Director of Bridge Street Theatre, a new performing arts center in progress in Catskill, NY. He has produced, directed, designed, and performed in hundreds of productions over the years. He founded Kaliyuga Arts in 1986 with his partner Steven Patterson and has received multiple awards for his directing and design work on their Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York productions. In Manhattan, John directed and designed Beckett's ALL THAT FALL and Dan Carbone’s KINGDOM OF NOT at the Cherry Lane Studio and the Al Carmines/Gertrude Stein musical IN CIRCLES at Judson Church. In 2012 he directed and designed THE MOUND BUILDERS and in 2013 directed and designed TRUE LOVE LIES and the U.S. premiere of KILL ME NOW, all at the Cross Street Theatre Center in Hudson. Most recently, John directed and designed Kaliyuga Arts’ production of THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH in the Bridge Street Theatre “Raw Space”. John has an undergraduate degree from M.I.T in mathematics and received a PhD in Dramatic Art from UC Berkeley.
Riot with Three
In their upcoming concert on August 22 at 2:00
p.m., Riot With Three will present a musical journey
through life’s highs and lows, its joys and sorrows.
Ranging in style from French Impressionist to
neo-Classical, spanning the latter half of the
20th-Century, this program juxtaposes the lush music
of Francis Poulenc with the simple elegance of songs
by American composer Ernst Bacon. The humorous touch
of Lee Hoiby contrasts with the intensity of songs
set to poems written by children in Germany in World
War II by Lori Laitman. Other song texts draw from
writings of Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Parker and
Thornton Wilder.
Soprano Alison Davy,
Saxophonist Javier Oviedo,and Pianist Gene Rohrer
are a dynamic trio devoted to engaging audiences
throughout their varied and lively programs. The
ensemble's combined resumé lists some of the
nation’s most prestigious concert venues including
Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center
and The White House as well as venues throughout
Europe and Asia. Together the trio has had great
successes at New York’s DiMenna Center for Classical
Music, the Kingston Festival of the Arts, and NYC's
Ethical Culture Society concert series. They
continue to develop and add to their musical
offerings, creating a unique atmosphere for
listeners with their vibrant personalities and
musical textures.
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Alison Davy. Praised
in July, 2015 by the East Hampton Star for her
“unflawed mix of power, range, tone, litheness, and
articulation”, soprano ALISON DAVY has appeared in
opera and oratorio both nationally and
internationally. She has performed with,
among others, Washington National Opera, Handel
Choir of Baltimore, Centro Musica Antica in Italy,
Parma Symphony Orchestra and the Choral Arts Society
of Washington, D.C. outreach program. Ms. Davy was
also featured as a guest artist at Lincoln Center’s
Bruno Walter Auditorium, singing Spohr’s Sechs
Deutsche Lieder and was selected to perform at
the White House for President and Mrs. Clinton.
This season Ms. Davy sings Schubert’s soprano
showpiece “Der Hirt auf dem Felsen” with the
prestigious Phoenix Ensemble in Manhattan, Deirdre
in the world premiere of Richard Pearson Thomas’ A
Wake or a Wedding with Encompass New Opera Theatre;
Britten's Les Illuminations with East Bay Chamber
Orchestra in San Francisco and Haydn’s “Creation”
with the Choral Society of the Hamptons.
Javier Oviedo. One of the brightest soloists of the
classical saxophone world, Javier Oviedo is
acclaimed for his lustrous tone, passionate
musicianship, and formidable technique. The
Classical Saxophone Project (CSP) (classicalsaxproject.org)
is his non-profit group that works tirelessly
to present the saxophone as a unique, versatile,
exciting classical instrument. His continuing
research has helped introduce the rich tradition of
musical composition for the entire saxophone
family. Along with these older works, he has
commissioned and premiered a dozen new pieces, both
in the United States and abroad. Mr. Oviedo has
performed to great praise in many cities across the
country and around the world, from China to Latin
American to many cities in Eastern and Western
Europe, including Paris, Barcelona, the Republic of
Moldova, and in the Russian Federation. He has
appeared with the New Jersey Symphony, the Austin
Symphony, the Chattanooga Symphony, L’Orchestre
Lamoureux, L’Orchestre à cordes d’Ariège in France,
and both National Philharmonics of Moldova and
Russia in Oryol.
Gene Rohrer. Eugene Rohrer
is a graduate of The Manhattan School of Music, New
York, NY, and Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.
He was seen and heard, both in New York City and
Chicago, as an actor/singer/pianist in the role of
Galileo in The Top Ten People Of The Millennium Sing
Their Favorite Schubert Lieder by Alec Duffy.
He sang tons of G&S with The Light Opera of
Manhattan when it was NYC’s main source for
operetta. He toured as pianist with baritones
Saverio Barbieri (‘If I Were a Rich Man’ in
Italian!) and James Billings of the NYCO (ask for
the story about Myrtle Beach), the Festival of Song
Quartet (playing all four hands of the Liebeslieder
Waltzes) and the Gregg Smith Singers (you haven’t
lived until you’ve recorded a Christmas album in the
dead of Summer with the Texas Handbell Choir).
He lives and teaches in NYC both privately and,
publicly, at the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy and
the Turtle Bay Music School.
