Who: The Bridge Production Group
What: I Am Your Masseuse (six short digressions) by John Patrick Shanley
Where: Brooklyn Navy Yard
When: August 18 and 22, $15, 8:00
Why: As we emerge from the pandemic lockdown, theater companies are finding unique locations to stage works in front of a live audience. The nonprofit Bridge Production Group, which is “committed to dismantling and rebuilding an audience’s expectations of theatrical storytelling, [seeking] to disrupt traditional conventions and assumptions about how stories are told,” has turned to the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard, where it is currently in residency. On August 18 and 22 at 8:00, the company will premiere I Am Your Masseuse (six short digressions) by Pulitzer Prize and Oscar winner John Patrick Shanley, a New York City native whose previous works include Doubt, Moonstruck, and Wild Mountain Thyme. The new show, directed by Claire Edmonds (Red Light Winter, Where the Lovelight Gleams), features Marcus Naylor, Crawford M. Collins, Carlo Alban, and Christina Toth. Tickets are only $15, with all proceeds going to the Actors Fund. Performed for two nights only, the plays are “designed to aid the digestion and further erode our attention span.” The Bridge Production Group is also presenting Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell’s musical [title of show] with Keri Rene Fuller, Josh Daniel, Jennifer Apple, and Max Hunter at the Navy Yard August 13-21.