{"id":280799,"date":"2026-04-22T20:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280799\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:31:10","slug":"review-at-bridge-street-theatre-bakersfield-mist-offers-engaging-performances-amid-a-talk-heavy-serviceable-staging-arts-and-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280799\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: At Bridge Street Theatre, &#8216;Bakersfield Mist&#8217; offers engaging performances amid a talk-heavy, serviceable staging | Arts and Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CATSKILL, N.Y. \u2014 Maude Gutman, one of the two characters in Stephen Sachs&#8217; comedic \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bridgest.org\/bakersfield-mist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bakersfield Mist<\/a>,\u201d is an irresistible force of nature, especially as she is portrayed by the deeply gravel-voiced Lusia Strus in Bridge Street Theatre\u2019s generally serviceable season-opening production.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployed bartender lives in a home \u2014 exquisitely designed by the show\u2019s director, Mark Perry, who also is Bridge Street&#8217;s acting artistic director \u2014 at a place called Sagebrush Trailer Park in Bakersfield, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Theater Review<\/p>\n<p>What: &#8220;Bakersfield Mist&#8221; by Stephen Sachs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CATSKILL, N.Y. \u2014 Maude Gutman, one of the two characters in Stephen Sachs&#8217; comedic \u201cBakersfield Mist,\u201d is an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,120847,152,120845,120846],"class_list":{"0":"post-280799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-mist","11":"tag-bakersfield-news","12":"tag-bridge-street-theatre","13":"tag-catskill-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}