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2026 Season Announcement
Inaugural Season in the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center Announced!
Oct 27, 2021
Gala Honors Past and Celebrates Future
GARRISON, NY (October 25, 2021) – In celebration of a successful 2021 season and post-pandemic comeback to live theater, Hudson Valley Shakespeare (HVSF) hosted a celebratory gala on October 10 to showcase the plans for its new, permanent home...
Oct 08, 2021
HVSF Appoints Two New Hires, Including first-ever General Manager
GARRISON, NY (October 5, 2021) – In its continuing dedication to engaging audiences in and beyond the Hudson Valley with theatrical celebrations, Hudson Valley Shakespeare (HVSF) announced the addition of two new senior staff appointments....
Aug 26, 2021
THE NEW YORKER: The Energy & Artistry Never Flag
Originally published on August 20, 2021 by Ken Marks in The New Yorker (“The Theatre, Now Playing”). “The Tempest” is a beautiful, exciting, and fitting production to conclude the festival’s thirty-four-year tenure at Boscobel. (The...
Aug 26, 2021
THE TEMPEST Director Ryan Quinn on WAMC
Ryan Quinn joined WAMC’s Sarah LaDuke for August 20th’s episode of The Roundtable! Hudson Valley Shakespeare’s production of “The Tempest,” directed by Ryan Quinn, runs under the tent at Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, New York...
Aug 13, 2021
WALL STREET JOURNAL: ‘The Tempest’ Review – Curtain Calls
Originally published on August 13, 2021 by Terry Teachout in the Wall Street Journal (‘The Tempest’ Review: Curtain Calls). The Hudson Valley Shakespeare bids farewell to its current campus with a superb production of the play thought to be...
Aug 12, 2021
THE NEW YORK TIMES: A Sorcerer’s Evolution in the Hudson Valley
Originally published on August 9, 2021 in The New York Times by Laura Collins-Hughs GARRISON, N.Y. — Prospero’s grievance has been gnawing at him a dozen years when at last he speaks of it to his teenage daughter, Miranda, explaining how...
Aug 11, 2021
How Hudson Valley Shakespeare Is Adapting to the New World
Originally published on August 11, 2021 by David Gordon on TheaterMania For all theaters, the return to live performance in the wake of both the Covid pandemic and last year’s social-justice reckoning has been a long and difficult path. When it...
Aug 08, 2021
Forgiveness & Reckoning: Director Ryan Quinn on THE TEMPEST
Photo by William E. Marsh. Ryan Quinn and the cast of “Pericles” from a 2009 production at Hudson Valley Shakespeare. Originally published on August 7, 2021 in The Highlands Current by Alison Rooney
Aug 07, 2021
Holding Space for Grace: “The Tempest” at Hudson Valley Shakespeare
Photo by William E. Marsh. Ryan Quinn and the cast of “Pericles” from a 2009 production at Hudson Valley Shakespeare. Originally published on August 1, 2021 in Chronogram by Brian K. Mahoney
Jun 28, 2021
The Original First Lady, Haunted by Slavery.
Originally published on June 28, 2021 in The New York Times by Maya Phillips James Ijames’s amusingly cynical and eclectic new play, “The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington,” is at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare...
Jun 21, 2021
A Guide to Theater Festivals in New York and the Berkshires
Originally published on June 17, 2021 in The New York Times Most summers, as tourists pour into New York City to see theater, New Yorkers pour out to see theater elsewhere. This summer, though, they may do so with extra ardor. As the pandemic...
Jun 11, 2021
Director Raz Golden on MACBETH
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