Post Tagged with: "Bridge Players Theatre Company"

  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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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

“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 [...]

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 [...]

(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…  [...]