Post Tagged with: "Bristol Riverside Theatre"

Summer Broyhill (Jeanne Coyne) & Charles Osborne (Gene Kelly). photo credit BRT STAFF

BRT’s Solid WHAT A GLORIOUS FEELING Glimpses into Film History

Around the Region November 8, 2012 at 4:48 pm 0 comments

Bristol Riverside Theater’s latest production, WHAT A GLORIOUS FEELING, is billed as a musical. What it is, more correctly, is a play with music and a fascinating glimpse into the past—and it all makes for a very enjoyable evening. WHAT A GLORIOUS FEELING is the story of the love triangle between [...]

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Stellar Performances Highlight BRT’s OLEANNA

Professional Theatre October 6, 2012 at 5:52 am 0 comments

Sometimes I find that I am a very cranky older man, wondering how our world got so PC. Things that were acceptable in my youth are now looked upon as socially inept, and one wonders how that could have happened. Fortunately for all of us “male chauvinist pigs”, the world [...]

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Tovah Feldshuh Sparkles in BRT’s GYPSY

Around the Region December 11, 2011 at 9:50 pm 0 comments

Tovah Feldshuh, one of the hardest working actresses in stage, television and screen graces the stage at Bristol Riverside Theatre in the classic musical, GYPSY. GYPSY is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee the famous striptease artist, focusing on her mother Rose. Driving her children to [...]

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STAGE Magazine Interviews Tovah Feldshuh

Interviews, News December 8, 2011 at 8:13 am 0 comments

STAGE Magazine News Reporter interviews Tovah Feldshuh, Tony-nominated actress and star of Bristol Riverside Theatre’s upcoming production of GYPSY! The musical opens December 8, 2011 and runs through January 15, 2012. More info at www.brtstage.org httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uBWTLkewfw

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BARRYMORE at BRT: An Actor’s Dramatic Encounter With His Past

Professional Theatre October 14, 2011 at 9:11 am 0 comments

Keith Baker never ceases to amaze. He acts. He sings, He directs. He plays piano. He conducts. He writes and arranges musicales. He helps to plan the theatre season at BRT. And clearly, he can memorize one heck of a lot of lines. Once again, Baker demonstrates his remarkable talents [...]

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LITTLE WOMEN: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL continues at Bristol Riverside Theatre through May 22.

LITTLE WOMEN: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL at BRT

Around the Region May 12, 2011 at 10:49 pm 0 comments

Susan D. Atkinson, founding director of Bristol Riverside Theatre, provides a return to musical theater in its purest form with the closing productions of the 2010-2011 season, LITTLE WOMEN, THE BROADWAY MUSICAL.  Director Atkinson shines the proverbial spotlight on the talent, and leaves overly-done lighting and sound technologies to those with lesser casting capabilities. LITTLE [...]

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(From L-R)  David Kenner and Keith Baker in Bristol Riverside Theatre's Old Wicked Songs.  Running from November 18 to December 5, this Pulitzer Prize nominated drama explores the fascinating connections between art and guilt, compassion and identity as it mirrors the structures and themes of the piece they study -- Schumann's Dichterliebe.  For tickets call the BRT Box Office at 215-785-0100 or visit brtstage.org. (Photo credit: Susan D. Atkinson)

OLD WICKED SONGS Beautifully Done at Bristol Riverside

Around the Region November 27, 2010 at 10:37 am 0 comments

OLD WICKED SONGS is the newest offering from Bristol Riverside Theatre. This drama by Jon Marans pairs Keith Baker and David Kenner as a music professor and his student in 1986 Vienna. Stephen Hoffman (Kenner) is a piano prodigy who has come to Vienna to study with a piano teacher [...]

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A scene from Bristol Riverside Theatre's DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE, playing through October 17 in Bristol, PA.

Bristol Riverside Opens Season with Adaptation of Classic

Professional Theatre October 7, 2010 at 10:25 pm 1 comment

Bristol Riverside Theatre opened its latest season on September 28 with DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher. This is the classic tale of the doctor who is compelled to examine the sides of humanity’s personalities and his ill-conceived attempts to eradicate the negatives side. Mr. Hatcher delves [...]

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