The Dark Web: “Octet” at Hudson Valley Shakespeare
Posted August 6, 2025Hudson Valley Shakespeare in Garrison will present a new production of “Octet” August 11 through September 4. Director Amanda Dehnert answered the following questions by email.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare in Garrison will present a new production of “Octet” August 11 through September 4. Director Amanda Dehnert answered the following questions by email.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare (Davis McCallum, Artistic Director; Kendra Ekelund, Managing Director) announced today that Laura Steinberger has been appointed as the new Director of Finance, following a nationwide search led by Tom O’Connor Consulting Group.
Listen to the interviews from WAMC's The Roundtable with HVS favorites Ryan Quinn, Nance Williamson & Kurt Rhoads.
New York Times Critics' Pick. "The Matchmaker, now enjoying a fine revival at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, N.Y., is a musical lover’s delight, besotted with song." -Jesse Green, New York Times
Listen to episode #105 of Behind The Awards With Eila Mell & Bruce Gotlieb, where one of their hosts discuss their experience at HVS.
"I think a theater performance should be a communal event...And the story that unfolds happens between the actors and the audience, and they kind of create it together. That’s why it’s so much fun. It’s not just this inert thing that you go and observe. It’s a thing that you go and actively participate in." -Davis McCallum, HVS Artistic Director
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.