BeBa

Co-artistic Directors

Heather Berry & Elizabeth Fraser Barrows

BeBa Theatre Arts was started with the purpose of raising funds through performances for the parish hall

at the Church of the Ascension. Our goal is to restore this wonderful building and create a working space
for the performing and fine arts in the Mid-Hudson Valley community.

Shakespeare On Love

'The course of true love never did run smooth'

"Jennifer McG Barrows has directed her four principal actors
in employing a style of eloquent dialogue and vigorous body
language; they know their lines and switch character roles
with convincing speed. In addition, William E. Connors reads
the sonnets with clarity and a sense of their meaning."

-Times Herald Record 1/24/2006

Agnes of God

John Pielmeier

"For its premier production, BeBa Theatre Arts presented John Pielmeier's
three-character play "Agnes of God." And though it only ran for one
weekend, the performance at the parish hall of the Church of the Ascension
in West Park demonstrated a standard of excellence that should make this
new company proud. ...As directed in West Park by Elizabeth Fraser
Barrows on a spare set furnished with two chairs and a secretary, a
talented trio of actors held the audience's attention throughout the
compelling drama of a court-appointed psychiatrist's inquiry into a
mysterious birth and death at a Catholic convent.

- Times Herald Record 8/24/2004

Lamentable Love

One-Act plays by Tennessee Williams, Christopher Durang,
and Ralph Pape.

"Six actors in 10 roles created a variety of contrasting characters in
different dramatic styles for a delightful theatrical experience."

-Times Herald Record 1/18/2005