May 2015 Events
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Heart's Content
Ensemble Sunday May 3 @ 3 pm |
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An Evening with John DeRosalia Saturday, May 9 @ 7:30 pm |
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Kaliyuga Arts presents Home Fires Burning Created and Performed by Roxanne Fay Two Weekends -- May 15-24 Fridays and Saturdays @ 7:30 pm Sundays @ 2:00 pm Press Photos Here |
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"If theater matters to you, if nourishing both
your own aesthetic pleasure centers and the
area's theater scene register as a goal at all,
you will find a way to get to Bridge Street
Theatre this weekend or next ot see 'Home Fires
Burning' ... This is enthralling and wrenching
stuff in the 30-seat Speakeasy space at Bridge
Street Theatre. On Friday, opening night, when
Fay emphasized a point with a jab at her chest,
you could hear her finger thud on her sternum.
The intimacy is so intense you’re almost glad
the show isn’t any longer, but you’re also
spellbound by a story so perfectly told you
don’t want it to end. " -- Steve Barnes,
Albany Times Union READ THE ENTIRE REVIEW "Mesmerizing ... Fans of Elmore Leonard and FX's 'Justified' will feel a kinship with 'Home Fires Burning', but the play is authentic theater. ... Study of characters deserves an actress worthy of study, and Roxanne Fay is awesome. Her monologues unfold before a rapt audience without the slap, dash, and pretense of more refined but less artistically inclined theaters. Done before another one of John Sowle’s perfectly natural and authentic sets—a muslin sheet with the south wall of slanted wood shingles, one window reflecting the sun—it makes the perfect symbol of home to tie Everlasting Moon and Paradise Whiskey tighter: this is the place Child desperately tries to get home to and the place one-eyed Sister Mae refuses to leave. Don’t miss Home Fires Burning; you’ll want to find your way back here in the future. -- James Yeara, METROLAND READ THE ENTIRE REVIEW |
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Christian Cagigal in Obscura An Intimate Evening of Close Up Magic, Fairy Tales, Dark Fables and Strange Happenings May 29-31 Fri @ 7:30, Sat @ 3 & 7:30, Sun @ 2 |
Margo Byron, Jonathan Byron-Woodin, Lory Frankel, Gail LeSuer, Bill Skiff & David Woodin in a program of works by Telemann, Stravinsky, Riedel, Mozart, Barthe, Chaminade, Piazzolla, Debussy, and Marcello.
Made possible with public funds from the Decentralization Program of the NYS Council on the Arts, administered by the Greene County Council on the Arts.
An Evening with John DeRosalia
When
singer/songwriter/guitarist John DeRosalia was 12, he
went into a deep depression. He bought himself a guitar,
went into his room, and came out a year later knowing
how to play it. He hasn’t stopped since.
Born
and raised in Brooklyn, John has been living in the
Hudson Valley since 1990. While he’s worn many hats in
the course of his life (psychotherapist, magician,
author, skydiver, international Peak Performance
Consultant), music has always been his first love. His
songs range from blues to rock to jazz, with deep,
poetic, and often humorous lyrics which
speak of the
feelings and emotions that fill all our lives.
John started performing at the age of 17 and now, at age
65, he’s better than ever! Listening to his music –
especially live – is a joyful and uplifting experience.
Home Fires Burning
Roxanne Fay creates two
unique characters, one an orphaned child, the other
ancient and disfigured, in a pair of haunting plays
about the fierce fight to reclaim and hold on to that
most elemental human need - a place of one's own.
Roxanne Fay is an actor and writer. Formerly the
Producing Artistic Director for the Oak Park Festival
Theatre in Chicago, she now resides in the Tampa Bay
area of Florida and serves as Producing Artistic
Director for Circle in the Water, LLC. She is the first
recipient of the Jeff Norton Dream Grant, awarded by
Theatre Tampa Bay, to fund the creation of her new play,
UPON THIS ROCK: THE MAGDALENE SPEAKS (based on her
novel, available on Amazon and Kindle). The play
premiered in May of 2014. She has received awards for
her work in productions of CABARET, MUCH ADO ABOUT
NOTHING, and SIDE MAN. She has appeared in Joan
Didion’s THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT’S DREAM, ROMEO & JULIET, AS YOU LIKE IT, THE
COMEDY OF ERRORS, HENRY IV, THE WINTER’S TALE, AGNES OF
GOD, THE ELEPHANT MAN, THE NORMAL HEART, ONE FLEW OVER
THE CUCKOO’S NEXT, and LOST (ABC TV).
www.roxannefay.com,
www.circleinthewater.com.
Notes from the
Playwright:
Two weeks before my father was killed, he
drew a pencil sketch. Though he was career Air Force, he
carried an artist within. He would sit with a sketch pad
on his lap in the evenings during the family TV huddle
and draw. I have remembered that last sketch all my
life. It manifested itself in PARADISE WHISKEY, a play
that came out almost like automatic writing as I sat, my
own pad in my lap, waiting for a long audition day to
end. Milton Fay was killed by a hit and run driver as he
and I rode our bicycles on a California country road in
July, 1972. His final sketch is the basis for cover of
the published plays. The odd thing about the two plays
that comprise HOME FIRES BURNING is that their content
is a mystery to me. I have no outward experience to
connect to either character and yet, they feel
completely internal and amazingly real to me. This work
is dedicated to my father.
Obscura
Bridge Street Theatre
presents a return engagement of the amazing Christian Cagigal in an intimate
evening of close up magic, fairy tales, dark fables and
strange happenings called
OBSCURA. Christian’s unique blend of theatre and “slightly creepy” magic
has played to spellbound audiences and packed houses in
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, New York
City, Montreal, and Bintan (Indonesia). He recently
completed a sold-out run of a special edition of
OBSCURA in
the Close-Up Gallery of the world famous Magic Castle in
Hollywood, and last summer he performed
the show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. You can
visit
christiancagigal.com for lots more on this
astounding actor, magician, and mentalist. You can also
view a webseries based on
OBSCURA on YouTube, but only live
and in person does this show reveal its true wonder and
magic.
A captivating suspended animation of eerie alchemy
and delightful drama.” - Chicago Stage Review
“Spellbinding … Bravely entrusts its success into the
open-mindedness of its audience and the storytelling
talent of its performer, and the results are admirable,
breathtaking, and fittingly magic." - Charlebois Post,
Montréal
“A show that’ll change viewers’
estimation of magic forever.” - SFStation.com
“Charismatic and engaging ... He has us in the palm of
his hand.” - The Black and Gold Review, New Orleans
