$30 Adults

$25 Students

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A gripping, heartfelt drama that asks what it means to stand up for yourself when family collides. After inheriting a drive-in theater and the care of his late husband’s teenage son, Remy—a Black, gay man—forms a fragile bond with Pup over classic monster movies. But when Remy uncovers Pup’s cruel bullying of a gay classmate, their relationship is thrown into turmoil, forcing both to confront the real monsters demons within prejudice, grief, and moral compromise. This haunting yet tender play explores the gray spaces between right and wrong, challenging us to face the monsters that live off-screen.

This production contains explicit language, including homophobic and racial slurs, as well as references to substance abuse, overdose, and violence.

A pair of filthy rich and disgruntled husbands escape for a romantic getaway in a remote mountain cabin unaware that each has hatched a plot to murder the other. If you’ve ever loved someone so much but still thought, “I could murder him”—welcome home.

Nathan Johnson is a queer performer/playwright/artist. He was a finalist for the Dramatists Guild Fellowship and the Primary Stages Echoes Writing Group, a recipient of the National Queer Theatre-WIO Fellowship, winner of the Meanwhile Park Playwriting Prize, and Recipient of the Primary Stages Louise Rockwell Scholarship. His plays have been performed and/or received finalist positions at The SAUK, American Stage, The Artistic Home, Best Medicine Rep, B-Street Theatre, The Chain Theatre, The Magnetic Theatre, and many others. As an actor, he’s worked in off Broadway, television, and film (My Big Gay Italian Wedding, The Party planner with David Tutera, One Life to Live). MFA: Columbia University.

Round The Bend Theatre is a mobile theater company with a mission to encourage Hudson Valley playwrights and their work in development. Through the process of inclusive readings and reflection, new voices are nurtured for future work.

THE LARAMIE PROJECT

by Moises Kaufman

and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project

A Catskill Community Production

Created by R’Ville Stage Creations

On October 7, 1998, a 21-year old gay college student named Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and left to die tied to a fence outside of Laramie, Wyoming. His murder garnered national and global media attention, shining a light on the lack of hate crime laws and changing the way we talk about bigotry and hate in America.

The Laramie Project is a portrait of the community’s response to Matthew’s murder. Told in the style of documentary or ‘verbatim’ theatre, it features a cast of 8 actors portraying 60+ characters. The play was written and originally performed by members of the Tectonic Theater Project, based on more than 200 interviews they conducted with Laramie residents, news reports, and their own personal journal entries. The Laramie Project has become one of the most widely-performed plays in America.

We are honored to be producing this show for Pride Month. A portion of proceeds will be donated to the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

Audience discretion advised.

Thomas Baker is a master illusionist with over eight years of professional performance experience, known for delivering shows that keep audiences on the edge of their seats from start to finish.

A two-year consecutive sell-out performer at the Bridge Street Theatre, Thomas has also performed for L’Oréal Paris and appeared on stages such as The Orpheum Theatre and The Starr Theatre. His performances span high-end weddings and major festivals, including East Durham’s Pumpkin Fest and the Hope Rocks Festival, and invariably leave audiences stunned, breathless, and wanting more.

Join him at Bridge Street Theatre June 27th and kick off your summer with a night of mystery, shock, and unforgettable magic.

choreography and performance by marion spencer

sound by MANAS (Tashi Dorji + Thom Nguyen) & marion spencer

projection by marion spencer

ecdysis is a solo project in development and part of a series of solos excavating lineage, embodiment and dreams amidst onrushing climate catastrophe. This research is feminine, feminist, interdisciplinary and inspired by the act and process of shedding – internal, external, decolonial and archival. Studying adaptation as an experimental, theoretical and intuitive practice, this project asks – ‘what do we let go of’ and ‘what do we dream for’ at the end of the world? ecdysis is the second in a series of solos marion is making exploring the nature of being alive and embodied while the world falls apart. [ecdysis (noun): the process where an animal sheds its outer layer, called the cuticle or exoskeleton, to allow for growth, renewal and development.]

marion spencer (she/her/hers) is an interdisciplinary dance artist based in Brooklyn, NY since 2014. Weaving movement, sound & installation, she creates solo and ensemble performances built from feminine, feminist and interdisciplinary practices. Her creative research engages scientific, artistic and academic texts, images and objects- interrogating these materials through embodied research. marion utilizes her training in experimental postmodern dance, choral singing and installation, placing these mediums in conversation with her personal heritage as the child of Mesoamerican Archaeologists from Venezuela and Panama. This lineage shapes her creative interests in excavating extinction, adaptation and futurity by centering the kind of feminist knowledge and intuitive wisdom that comes only from thinking through the body. marion is a 2023 New York Dance & Performance (‘Bessie’) Awards Nominee for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer. Her work has been presented in New York City by La Mama Experimental Theatre, Roulette Intermedium, Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, Gibney, New Dance Alliance, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, Target Margin Theater and more. She has been an Artist in Residence at MacDowell, The American Dance Festival, The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Field Center, Gibney, Amherst College and Mana Contemporary, among others. As a performer, marion has had the pleasure of collaborating with Joanna Kotze, Laurie Berg, BAND|portier, Laura Peterson, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Michelle Boulé, Tyler Rai and as a guest performer with David Dorfman Dance and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. She has been on faculty at Rutgers University, Sarah Lawrence College, Movement Research, Gibney, Dancewave and more. marion also teaches Pilates and is a Craniosacral Therapist. She holds an MFA in Dance: Interdisciplinary Research from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (2025), and a BA with Honors in Geography from Vassar College (2009). www.marion-spencer.com / @marionspencer

The Super Bowl has begun, everyone is hyped and ready to watch. In this comedy-drama, old friends, and new friends, fight old battles, begin new ones, learn secrets and choose sides. Some still try to enjoy this one night event.

Jason Wang is a proud Connecticut native who often travels to New York City to catch new shows. Every time he steps into a theatre, he’s inspired by the creativity on stage—stories that make audiences laugh, cry, or feel a mix of both. After each show, Jason finds himself motivated to write something of his own, hoping one day to see his work performed Off-Broadway or on Broadway.

Round The Bend Theatre is a mobile theater company with a mission to encourage Hudson Valley playwrights and their work in development. Through the process of inclusive readings and reflection, new voices are nurtured for future work.

JOIN US for a dazzling theatrical spectacle where a mysterious medieval troupe tells the extraordinary journey of a young prince searching for his place in the world. Guided by a magnetic Leading Player, Pippin plunges into war, power, passion, and illusion—only to discover that the promise of greatness may come at a dangerous cost. Bursting with electrifying music, dark humor, and Fosse choreography, Pippin is a thrilling, thought‑provoking adventure about the true meaning of a life well lived.

Bridge Street Emerging Artists are local performers, ages 15-25.

At 82, Vivian, a legendary singer, actress, and songwriter, is incommunicative with dementia. When she moves into her daughter Eleanor’s home everyone in the family is excited, except Eleanor. When her son brings home an avid Vivian fan and would-be biographer who knows how to get Vivian talking lucidly about her checkered past, Eleanor becomes even more uneasy. What secrets might be revealed?

Daniel Martin Chadwick (Book, Lyrics, and Music) is an American playwright, novelist, short story writer, lyricist, and composer. His fiction is mostly horror, speculative, urban fantasy, and psychological thrillers that come from the dark catacombs of his mind. He lives in a secret paradise in South America where he fills his days with reading, writing, chocolate, coffee, lots of sunshine, and his two cats, Tadzio and Fausto, who may or may not be reincarnated gods, (but probably are).

Timothy Brown (Music and Arrangements) Composer, arranger, and copyist made his debut in music for the theatre with Curious George which toured nationally in a production by Theatreworks/USA for nearly ten years. Soon after that success his short musical, The Cost of Living – with Broadway veteran, George Gorham – premiered at The West Bank Theatre. Another Gorham/Brown collaboration, Come Dance With Me, was a finalist in the Dramatists Guild showcase. Tim was honored to be included in a concert of “classical” works by “theatre” composers presented by The Other Side of Broadway; his Incidental Dance Suite for solo piano was premiered alongside pieces by renowned Broadway composers, Galt MacDermot, David Amram, and Charles Strouse at Merkin Concert Hall in New York. He has been a music assistant to Broadway legend John Kander and on several major shows for Broadway music directors, David Loud, Patrick Vaccarrielo, and Todd Ellison. Tim is a veteran of the Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writers Workshop (BMI).

Round The Bend Theatre is a mobile theater company with a mission to encourage Hudson Valley playwrights and their work in development. Through the process of inclusive readings and reflection, new voices are nurtured for future work.

A devastating explosion kills hundreds of people and collapses a building. Searchers are looking for survivors. A robot designed for such emergencies – The Goodness Robot – is dispatched to the scene of the crime. Her name is Shelley, and she is fearless by design.

Paul Allman’s plays include Metesky, Appendix, Dog in the Manger, Aloyssius Day, The Puritan, Kill the Vumpire, Otis Furioso, Bombers Row, Dig We Must, and Kenneth – What is the Frequency? Allman served as Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Screenwriting Fellow at the Sundance Institute, and Playwriting Fellow at the Playwrights Lab at the Sundance Institute. He has published two young adult novels and one literary novel with St. Martin’s Press, and his fiction has appeared in Paris Transcontinental, Harpers’s Magazine, Film Comment, and Witness, where his short story “We Have Time” won a Pushcart Prize. He has appeared sporadically and unpredictably as Captain Croaker, performing his sea-chanty opera “Break of Dawn” with the Mercantillers band at small venues in the city.

Round The Bend Theatre is a mobile theater company with a mission to encourage Hudson Valley playwrights and their work in development. Through the process of inclusive readings and reflection, new voices are nurtured for future work.

$30 Adults

$25 Students

Season Tickets available here ($150 Adults, $125 Students – 6 for the price of 5!)

A razor-sharp exploration of obsession, identity, and the fragile bonds of chosen family, set against the backdrop of opera’s soaring passions. When two friends—one a flamboyant opera aficionado, the other quietly unraveling—collide over love and betrayal, their witty banter spirals into a devastating confrontation that exposes the cost of living for art versus living for truth. At once hilarious and heartbreaking, this play asks: how far will we go to protect the illusions that define us?

In 1883, two women—one married to the scientist inventing the lightbulb, the other to the reverend resisting it—sit down over birthday cake to debate the future. Sides aren’t what you expect and parlor talk jolts from lightbulbs to AI in a reality-bending collision of past, present, and the terrifying hope of technology racing faster than we can reckon with.

Stephen Kaplan Selected awards and productions: NNPN Rolling World Premiere: Tracy Jones (Finalist: ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest, B Street New Comedies Festival, Trustus Playwrights Festival); Long Drive Home (Theatre Aspen Solo Flights); Un Hombre: A Golem Story (Winner: Barbour Award; Finalist: Gulfshore Playhouse New Works Festival, Jewish Plays Project, Chameleon Theatre Circle’s New Play Contest, Wild Imaginings Epiphanies; Development: NJ PlayLab, RTB); Branwell (and other Brontës) (Semi-Finalist: O’Neill); Community (Finalist: Seven Devils; Road Less Traveled National Residency, Semi-Finalist: Premiere Stages, March Forth Productions); Exquisite Potential (Theatre Ariel, Dezart Performs, Project Rushmore; Winner: NJ Playwrights Contest, Across the Generations New Jewish Play Festival, Finalist: Woodward/Newman Award, Semi-Finalist: Seven Devils); A Real Boy (59E59 Theatre, Last Act Theater, This Is Water Theatre and Semi-Finalist: PlayPenn, Ashland New Play Festival, Dayton Playhouse FutureFest and MTWorks’ Newborn Festival). SPACE at Ryder Farm. MFA: Point Park University. www.bystephenkaplan.com

Round The Bend Theatre is a mobile theater company with a mission to encourage Hudson Valley playwrights and their work in development. Through the process of inclusive readings and reflection, new voices are nurtured for future work.

A razor-sharp reimagining of Julius Caesar set inside a soaring AI startup. When Emor AI’s CEO slips an absolute-power clause into the company’s IPO filing, her co-founders face a brutal choice: loyalty or revolt? At once a hilarious sendup of corporate culture and a searing exploration of power in the algorithm age, Julia C asks: In a world where truth is malleable and leadership is a brand, who deserves to rule?

Daniel Pink is the author of seven bestselling nonfiction books on a range of topics, from human motivation to the science of timing to a graphic novel career guide. His books include the New York Times bestsellers The Power of Regret, A Whole New Mind, and When—as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. His deeply researched works have been translated into 46 languages and have sold more than five million copies around the world. Over the years, he has also hosted a National Geographic television series, worked as a columnist at the Sunday Telegraph and the Washington Post, served as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore, and been a clue on Jeopardy. Writing plays is his next act.

Round The Bend Theatre is a mobile theater company with a mission to encourage Hudson Valley playwrights and their work in development. Through the process of inclusive readings and reflection, new voices are nurtured for future work.

$30 Adults

$25 Students

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This masterpiece, which led to Beckett’s 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, is a hauntingly comic meditation on resilience and the human spirit. Trapped waist-deep—and later neck-deep—in earth, Winnie clings to optimism and routine as her world literally closes in around her. Beckett transforms this stark image into a powerful exploration of hope, habit, and the absurdity of existence, reminding us that even in the most confining circumstances, the will to endure—and to find joy—persists.

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$25 Students

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Three sisters reunite in their late father’s backyard, transforming the task of sorting through his belongings into a raw, electrifying reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear. As childhood games collide with adult grief, the sisters slip between roles—parent and child, ruler and rebel—exposing the stormy legacy of family, memory, and forgiveness. With biting humor and aching honesty, the play explores how we inherit not just possessions, but wounds and love, asking: how do we keep hold of selfhood as we weather the past together?

$30 Adults

$25 Students

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WORLD PREMIER!

A poignant, time-hopping tapestry that explores the fierce, funny, and often fraught bonds between mothers and daughters spanning across generations. This is a story about finding freedom in establishing who we are at our core—sometimes in spite of, sometimes because of—the tangled relationships that binds us. At its heart, this play is a moving meditation on the search for connection and understanding—how the secrets we keep, the words we withhold, and the histories we inherit, shape who we are. With wit and raw honesty, we witness the messy beauty of family: the longing to be seen, the ache of forgiveness, and the liberating power of finally standing strong in our own truth.