Post Tagged with: "Bridge Players Theatre Company"

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“Curtain Up!” Podcast – Inaugural Episode

Podcasts April 30, 2013 at 12:37 am 0 comments

  This is the inaugural episode of Stage Magazine’s “Curtain Up!” podcast.  Hosted by Chris Laning, each weekly episode will give you a run down of the shows opening that upcoming weekend.  What a great way to find out, quickly and easily what is going on in and around [...]

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Bridge Players Theatre Company Proudly Presents CROWNS as Final Show of 37th Season

Press Releases April 14, 2013 at 10:51 pm 0 comments

Burlington City – Bridge Players Theatre Company proudly announces its May 2013 season finale production, CROWNS. In this moving and celebratory play by Regina Taylor of I’ll Fly Away fame, hats become the springboard for an exploration of black history and identity, as seen through the eyes of Yolanda, a [...]

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Tim Kirk as Dwayne; Joe Mattern as Rev. Hodges in Bridge Players Theatre Company's MESSIAH ON THE FRIGIDAIRE

MESSIAH ON THE FRIGIDAIRE: ‘Faithful’ Performances in an Unbelievable Tale

Community Theatre February 6, 2013 at 2:05 pm 0 comments

You’ve seen the tabloid covers at grocery store checkout lines touting sightings of Jesus on everything from grilled cheese sandwiches to Walmart receipts. John Culbertson’s MESSIAH ON THE FRIGIDAIRE examines the two-sided phenomenon of such apparitions of religious figures and the people who flock from far-off lands to observe them. [...]

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Bridge Players Theatre Company Proudly Presents the NJ Premiere of MESSIAH ON THE FRIGIDAIRE

Press Releases January 14, 2013 at 10:54 am 0 comments

Burlington City – Bridge Players Theatre Company proudly announces its February 2013 production, MESSIAH ON THE FRIGIDAIRE. In this comedy by John Colbertson, the small town of Elroy, South Carolina is thrust into the evangelical spotlight when what seems to be the image of Jesus appears on a refrigerator in [...]

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A Dark and Captivating BAD SEED at Bridge Players Theatre Company

Community Theatre October 11, 2012 at 7:22 pm 0 comments

The Bridge Players’ production of Maxwell Anderson’s BAD SEED adapted from William March and directed by Gabrielle Affleck in Burlington, New Jersey does not disappoint. The show is a two-act dramatic play with a fifteen minute intermission that centers around eight-year-old Rhoda the only child of Colonel Kenneth Penmark and [...]

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Marissa DiPilla, Nico Miele, Gabrielle Affleck, Tim Sagges are the McAfee family in Bridge Players Theatre Company's rendition of BYE BYE BIRDIE running in Burlington NJ through May 20.

Put On a Happy Face For A Terrific BIRDIE at Bridge Players

Community Theatre May 13, 2012 at 7:31 am 0 comments

The musical, BYE, BYE BIRDIE, performed by the Bridge Players Theatre Company, opened on May 4 and is playing for one more week end through May 20, concluding the group’s typical four-show season of performances which ends in May because of the lack of a performing space with central air [...]

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Lily Doyle and Celeste Bonfanti in a scene from LOST IN YONKERS, a Bridge Players Theatre Company production running in Burlington, NJ.

LOST IN YONKERS is Found With Great Heart and Wit in Burlington

Community Theatre February 7, 2012 at 8:35 pm 0 comments

Neil Simon is the only living playwright with a theatre named after him, and for good reason. Styled a great comic writer, Simon’s straight plays almost never follow standard, comic structure. Even though his works reflect standard moral reference, his use of structure is anything but standard. He plays in [...]

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Cast members from Bridge Players' YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS, which is based on the famous 1897 New York Sun newspaper editorial by Frank Church. from left is: Rose Lloyd, Delran, Celeste Bonfanti, Burlington City, and Dave Piltz, Bristol, PA

YES, VIRGINIA, Bridge Players Theatre Lives and Shines

Community Theatre November 26, 2011 at 5:43 pm 0 comments

Before it was the title of this show, YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS was the title of an editorial which appeared in the September 21, 1897 edition of The New York Sun in response to a plaintive question from 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon. This smart, tight play is a funny, [...]

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Sophia Chascsa as "Gloria" and Kori Rife as "Susy" in Bridge Players Theatre Company's production of WAIT UNTIL DARK, running in Burlington, NJ through October 22.

Intense WAIT UNTIL DARK at Bridge Players in Burlington

Community Theatre October 8, 2011 at 11:26 am 0 comments

This was a good night for theatre at the Bridge Players’ very successful production of WAIT UNTIL DARK. What the first act may have lacked a bit in character development and tension, the second act more than made up for it in suspense and excitement. I was very much impressed [...]

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STAGE Magazine Interviews Playwright Nancy Frick

Interviews May 7, 2011 at 1:47 pm 0 comments

STAGE Magazine News Reporter recently spoke with Philadelphia playwright, Nancy Frick, about her new play, EXIT DATE. The play is running at Bridge Players Theatre Company in Burlington NJ from May 6-21, 2011. Ms. Frick talks with Jim about her creative process as a playwright…. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKG3kfSLyCM

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Dan Brothers, Valerie Mazzagatti, Kathy Harmer, Tim Petrillo in a scene from EXIT DATE running at Bridge Players Theatre Company in Burlington NJ through May 21.

Bridge Players’ EXIT DATE Makes a Fine Entrance

Community Theatre May 7, 2011 at 10:31 am 0 comments

“What would you do if you learned the date of your death, or should I say, if you came to believe that you had that information? Would it change the way you live your life? Would it affect your relationships with those you love? Would it shake your faith? Would it [...]

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Presenting…Madame Rose: GYPSY at Bridge Players Theater Company

Community Theatre February 8, 2011 at 10:59 pm 1 comment

Bridge Players presents this production in the multi-purpose room of Broad Street United Methodist Church. If you are thinking folding chairs, sore “derrieres” and no stage …think again. There IS a stage and the room has been transformed into a café: cushions on the chairs, round tables, black tablecloths, a [...]

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"Hamlet's Ghost & Andrew" - Steve Kumke and Newel Gatrell in a scene from Bridge Players Theatre Company's I HATE HAMLET.

Hollywood HAMLET at Bridge Players in Burlington

Community Theatre October 4, 2010 at 7:23 pm 0 comments

(He Said….) by [author 10] The Bridge Players Theatre Company opening night production of I HATE HAMLET played to a sparse but enthusiastic audience at the Methodist Church in Burlington.  Here’s one time “strictly theatre fans” and “strictly TV fans” can unite and enjoy the show.  If such groups exist…  [...]

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