Our Season gets under way in March with the third edition of our hugely popular SoloFest – four weekends, four thrilling and very different one-person shows.
You can purchase a 2025 SoloFest Pass to see all four shows for $90, a savings of $26 over the purchase of individual shows.
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Or, even better, get a 2025 Season Super Value Pass and you can see all the SoloFest shows, all the 2025 Season shows, $1 off all other events at BST, and invitations to special events.
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Tickets for individual shows are $27 online, $29 at the door and $15 for students. They are available below.
March 7, 8, 9
BENT COMPASS – written by Neil Brookshire and Colin Sesek, and performed by Neil Brookshire. Originally directed by Phil Darius Wallace. One of the most successful and popular shows we’ve ever brought to BST was Logan Black’s BOND: THE STORY OF A SOLDIER AND HIS DOG, performed back in 2015 right here in our Speakeasy. With so many veterans in our area, we know this opening salvo in our 2025 SoloFest will really resonate. BENT COMPASS explores the transformation of a young man from raw recruit to seasoned combat Army Medic to a civilian attempting to re-adjust to life back in the world. How did his personal experience of war change the way he sees and reacts? Non-judgmental, reflective, humorous, raw, and candid, BENT COMPASS honors a man whose unique perspective speaks to both veterans and non-combat civilians alike. More…
March 14, 15, 16
HELP! I’M TRAPPED IN A ONE-WOMAN SHOW! – Written by Mark Hampton, lived and performed by Kate Skinner, and directed by Michael Edwards. She’s a magnificent, late-middle-aged Broadway actor, alone in the world (as only a widow can be) after losing the husband who was the genuine love of her life. At age 70, Kate finds herself reluctantly dipping her toe into the online dating pool – the world of “man 87 seeks loving relationship with woman under 30.” Her tales from the dark side are at once wickedly funny and delightfully disturbing. And at her side throughout the ordeal is the spirit of her husband, her true soul mate even from beyond the grave. Her valiant effort to find life after LOVE winds up being relatable, heroic, and uniquely touching. A raucous, romantic treat! More…
March 21, 22, 23
O TIME – written and performed by David Zellnik and directed by Danilo Gambini. Perhaps our personal favorite of any of the world premieres we’ve presented here at BST is David Zellnik’s heartbreaking THE LETTERS, which we produced in 2019. This new solo show, which David himself wrote and performs, is based on an actual experience from his own life. When his musical YANK! was produced down in Rio de Janeiro, David found himself part of a passionate community of theatre makers—including a vibrant young producer named George. Two years later, George was dead. David returns to Brazil but the more he digs into George’s personal life, the more he’s forced to wrestle with his own feelings and fears and the true source of his desire to understand George’s life and death. Structured as an investigation, O TIME explores the space between countries and cultures, language and translation, past and present. More…
March 28, 29, 30
GHOST DANCE: PICTURE OF A MADMAN – written and performed by Erica Knight and directed by John Ahlin. In February of 1916, Ralph Albert Blakelock’s haunting landscape, “Brook by Moonlight”, was sold at auction for $20,000, a record price for a painting by a living American artist. The sale made him famous, newspapers called him America’s greatest artist, and thousands flocked to exhibits of his work. Yet at the time of his triumph Blakelock had spent 15 years confined in a psychiatric hospital in Middletown, New York and his wife and children were living in poverty in a ramshackle cabin in Leeds. While Blakelock’s early works were heavily influenced by Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School painters, the onset of schizophrenia pushed his paintings into ever more controversial and radical areas. This remarkable solo show, created and performed by Blakelock’s own great-great granddaughter, explores the life, times, and madness of one of America’s most celebrated and exploited painters whose brooding, hallucinogenic landscapes anticipated Abstract Expressionism by more than half a century. More…