Community Day

Sunday, May 17, 2026
1:00PM-4:00PM

WE ARE OPEN!

Let’s celebrate this incredible milestone by welcoming the community to our campus for the first time since the completion of the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center.
This is your opportunity to explore, take tours of the new theater center, and get a first taste of what it’ll feel like to enjoy a live performance from the new seats.

Schedule of Events

1:00PM Season Pass Holders Tour
1:30PM Public Tour
1:30PM Best in Show
2:00PM Public Tour
2:30PM Overtures
3:00PM Public Tour
3:30PM Prologue
3:30PM Public Tour

Sample our brand-new Wednesday night program, Best in Show. Each week members of the HVS company will be joined by a canine co-star for a tail-wagging, behind-the-scenes conversation. We'll be partnering with local rescue groups and spotlighting an adoptable dog. During Community Day we'll be joined by Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF), is a non-profit, no-kill, 100% volunteer animal rescue located in Beacon, NY. Since 1986, they’ve rescued, rehabilitated, sheltered, and found loving homes for thousands of cats and dogs.

About the Salt Cracker Crazies

The Salt Cracker Crazies jug band, formed in 2010 in Astoria, Queens, continues to delight and transfix New York City area audiences with our unique and impertinent issue of exclusively acoustic jug, string, and vintage hokum chestnuts from the 1920's and beyond -bathtub distilled to a fiery concoction that goes down sweet -and kicks like a mule. Boasting an evolving livery of musical common-law spouses expanding and contracting like a cajun accordion over the decade-plus tenure of the band, our current Salt Cracker Crazies sextet roster resembles a veritable police blotter of NYC area musical scofflaws, snake charmers, chorus girls, and confidence men: Throat Cancer Jefferson coaxes strange melodies from the 5 string banjo; Ticklebritches Burnett forges twice-told truths from a resophonic guitar; hot mama Rusty Buttons commences to rubbing the washboard and potpourri; Cowboy Roy Lacroix wrestles bold rhythms from brushes and snare; Roebuck Redbone "cleans up" with washtub bass; hot mama Liquory Splitz shakes loose the forbidden fruit. Joining also on celebrated occasions: fiddle conjurings from Confetti Tornado; and jug rumination by Spitzyfitz Fitzpatrick. All heretofore concerned lift voice and sing with unabashed ardor for this evergreen musical idiom we call the blues.

Band features Frank Gresham, Joe Jung, Laura Dillman Frank, Jennifer Logue, and Michael McComiskey

Community Conversation with Alex and Sophia from PAW

Join us for a lively community led by Processional Arts Workshop (PAW), the internationally celebrated creative team who lead our annual Highland Lights. This year, Highland Lights will take place on July 4 and the theme will reflect on 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This is your opportunity to learn about the vision for this year’s event, Assembly, how it will be created, and how our local community can participate in workshops leading up to the event and on the day of the event itself. Most importantly, Assembly will be celebrating revolutionary figures from the distant and recent past, and we need YOU to help us determine who those individuals are. So, bring your ideas and help us name the inspiring figures—past and present—who’ve helped shape and strengthen our democracy.