Presenting a repertoire that includes Shakespeare’s classics as well as plays by contemporary writers in an open-air setting since 1987, Hudson Valley Shakespeare is once again bringing the good stuff to its 98-acre campus.

If you want to understand what kind of place the Hudson Valley really is, look at summer's cultural calendar: dance at Kaatsbaan; jazz on the Poughkeepsie waterfront; Shakespeare in Garrison's fields; art exploding out of barns, black boxes, basements.

"It's not summer until I find myself under the tent at Hudson Valley Shakespeare in Garrison, ready to be taken on a theatrical ride."