Two Plays by William Inge Set for Bridge Street Theatre This August

Kaliyuga Arts and Bridge Street Theatre present THE KILLING and THE LOVE DEATH, Two Short Plays by William Inge, August 14-23, 2015, running Friday & Saturday evenings at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2:00pm.

Whenever Catskill's Bridge Street Theatre and its resident company Kaliyuga Arts turn their attention to play production, it's an occasion to sit up and take notice. Already this year, area audiences have been alternately shocked, delighted, inspired, and moved by LARK EDEN, UP FROM THE GROUND, SIGN FELT!, HOME FIRES BURNING, and THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH alongside Bridge Street's regular menu of music, magic, and art installations. October will bring a major revival of Oakley Hall III's monumental historical drama GRINDER'S STAND. But in the meantime, audiences will have a rare opportunity to view THE KILLING and THE LOVE DEATH, two late plays by William Inge, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such plays as PICNIC, BUS STOP, and COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA, that have just recently resurfaced.

Wildly successful initially -- his first four plays were all huge Broadway hits -- Inge, like Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee and many other great American playwrights, fell into critical disfavor for a time. He struggled with depression and alcoholism and eventually committed suicide in 1973. Housed among his papers at Independence Community College in his Kansas hometown, and previously available for viewing but not copying or borrowing, about two dozen of Inge's later works have only recently been made available for production. One of them, the full-length OFF THE MAIN ROAD, received its world premiere this summer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in a production starring Kyra Sedgewick and Estelle Parsons. THE KILLING and THE LOVE DEATH are two gems in this collection.

Kaliyuga Arts' production of THE KILLING and THE LOVE DEATH, directed and designed by John Sowle and featuring actors Andrew Colford and Steven Patterson, will be performed six times only, on Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2:00pm, from August 14 - 23. General Admission is $15, $10 for Students and Seniors, and reservations are suggested: (518) 943-3818 or online at BridgeSt.org. Bridge Street Theatre is located at 44 West Bridge Street in the Village of Catskill and ample free parking is available on the street or in the Catskill High School parking lot directly behind the theater building.

Andrew Colford (Huey/The Superintendent) Originally from the California Bay Area, Andrew went to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. After graduation he spent a year in Houston, TX as a Jesuit Volunteer. Other stage/screen credits: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Bristol Valley Theater), THE BETTER MAN (Unchained Festival), AFTER THE DANCE (Dirty Blondes), MY DIRTY LITTLE SECRET (Investigation Discovery), HACK MY LIFE (TruTV), MYSTERIES AT THE MUSEUM (Travel), and a commercial for American Collectors Insurance (Velocity).

Steven Patterson (Mac/Byron Todd) has performed regionally and in New York City with theaters such as Capital Repertory, Stageworks/Hudson, Lexington Conservatory Theatre, freeFall Theatre, South Coast Repertory, TheatreWorks, Kaliyuga Arts, and the Oregon, Orlando, Tennessee, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festivals. Favorite roles have included Lear in KING LEAR, Jean Genet in BEAUTY, Austin Wiggin in THE SHAGGS: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD, David in POOR SUPER MAN, Judi Boswell in HOW TO PRAY, and Jake Sturdy in KILL ME NOW. Co-founder of Kaliyuga Arts, he also serves as Associate Director of Bridge Street Theatre, where he recently appeared in a critically-acclaimed one-man adaptation of THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH.

John Sowle (Director) is Managing Director of Bridge Street Theatre, a new performing arts center in progress in Catskill, NY. He has produced, directed, designed, and performed in hundreds of productions over the years. He founded Kaliyuga Arts in 1986 with his partner Steven Patterson and has received multiple awards for his directing and design work on their Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York productions. In Manhattan, John directed and designed Beckett's ALL THAT FALL and Dan Carbone's KINGDOM OF NOT at the Cherry Lane Studio and the Al Carmines/Gertrude Stein musical IN CIRCLES at Judson Church. In 2012 he directed and designed THE MOUND BUILDERS and in 2013 directed and designed TRUE LOVE LIES and the U.S. premiere of KILL ME NOW, all at the Cross Street Theatre Center in Hudson. Most recently, John directed and designed Kaliyuga Arts' production of THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH in the Bridge Street Theatre "Raw Space". John has an undergraduate degree from M.I.T in mathematics and received a PhD in Dramatic Art from UC Berkeley.

Kaliyuga Arts was originally founded in Los Angeles, California in 1986 by John Sowle and Steven Patterson, who continue to lead it to this day. From its inception, it has been dedicated to the presentation of off-beat, challenging work, and has established an ever-expanding reputation for artistic excellence with a wide range of material. Based in San Francisco from 1990 thru 2004, New York City from 2004 thru 2010, and currently located in Catskill, NY, where it serves as "in-house" theater company of the new Bridge Street Theatre, Kaliyuga Arts continues to present some of the most exciting, risk-taking and innovative theatre available to audiences anywhere. kaliyuga.com

Bridge Street Theatre is a new performance space just 2 hours north of Manhattan and less than an hour south of Albany in the Village of Catskill, NY. John Sowle and Steven Patterson of the acclaimed theater troupe Kaliyuga Arts purchased an old warehouse building near downtown Catskill in November of 2013 and are in the process of converting it into a year-round performing arts complex. They have been presenting intimate theatre and cabaret performances in their "Speakeasy" and large scale art installations in their "Big Room" since April of 2014, and have recently begun to hold performances in the "Raw Space" which will eventually serve as the facility's Mainstage. For more, visit bridgest.org.

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