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Oct 23, 2025
2026 Season Announcement
Inaugural Season in the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center Announced!
Aug 08, 2024
All Hail the Queen!
Shakespeare’s Margaret takes center stage Whitney White’s trajectory from MFA to CAA happened fast. After earning a Master of Fine Arts from Brown University in 2015, she is now represented by Creative Artists Agency, a talent juggernaut in...
Aug 08, 2024
REVIEW: ‘Medea: Re-Versed’ puts an exciting new spin on a classic Greek tragedy
“Medea: Re-versed” is an idea whose time has come. Marrying a hundred words a minute of furious rapping and street beats with the grandeur and epic emotions of Greek tragedy makes perfect sense in this production by Luis Quintero which was...
Aug 08, 2024
The Gift of Living in Whitney White’s Queendom
An intrepid, in-demand force in the American theatre, this writer-director is finding more to say through Shakespeare’s only recurring female character, Queen Margaret.
Aug 08, 2024
A summer Shakespeare Fest without the Bard? Just wait until you see what’s in the cards
GARRISON — Davis McCallum, director of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare, took a big risk this year: For the first time in its 37-year history, the festival will not present one of its namesake’s complete plays.
Jul 03, 2024
15 Summer Theaters for That Nearby, Out-of-Town Experience
Summer used to be when playgoing in the city came to a full stop. With no air-conditioning, most shows closed, at least until fall. But now that urban theater is a year-round sport, Memorial Day is more like a comma than a period. Notable...
Apr 11, 2024
My Treatise on Murder Mystery
My Treatise on Murder Mystery (Why I love it and think you will too) “In the Murder Game, the inciting incident is a dead body. And where there is one body — another will surely follow. The only rule of the murder game is that a life calls...
Feb 27, 2024
Casting Announced for 2024 Season
The World Premiere of Medea: Re-Versed, by longtime HVSF company member Luis Quintero (Love’s Labor’s Lost), adapted from Euripides, and co-conceived and directed by Nathan Winkelstein (Seascape), in a co-production with Red Bull Theater and...
Nov 16, 2023
Announcing the 2024 Season
We’re proud to announce our lineup for the 2024 Summer Season, which will feature three original works — with two World Premieres — inspired by Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, and Euripides, as well as our educational tour.