Featured Post
Oct 23, 2025
2026 Season Announcement
Inaugural Season in the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center Announced!
Jul 25, 2023
CHRONOGRAM: Theater Review: “Henry V”
Originally published on July 25, 2023 in Chronogram by When settling in to watch one of Shakespeare’s history plays, expectations run toward battles, murders, and weighty ruminations. What you might not expect—humor. “Henry V,” one of...
Jul 25, 2023
NIPPERTOWN: “LOVE’S LABOR’S LOST” WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD
Originally published on July 24, 2023 on Nippertown by Patrick White. Who would have thought that a story about serious, young students who take a vow of chastity, abstinence, and intermittent fasting would produce such a party? It is impossible...
Jul 24, 2023
What Would Shakespeare’s Characters Eat If They Came to HVSF?
When you come to the Hudson Valley Shakespeare, your night out includes more than a great theater experience. You can also enjoy a mouth-watering meal at the Valley Restaurant, have a cozy picnic, or you can pick something up at concessions.
Jul 24, 2023
What To Do: Love’s Labors Lost at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare is “Bats#@t Bonkers”
Originally published on July 24, 2023 in What To Do Digital. Someday, when you’re playing mahjong in Boca you’ll meet someone you never knew from the ABC towns – a great chance to compare notes and make new friends. Until you get the...
Jul 21, 2023
THE NEW YORKER: An ecstatic success
Originally published on July 21, 2023 by Ken Marks in The New Yorker (“Goings on about town”). The Hudson Valley Shakespeare’s mounting of this early comedy from the Bard is an ecstatic success. It can be a difficult play to parse, with...
Jul 13, 2023
What to Expect at Love’s Labor’s Lost
LOVE’S LABOR’S LOST our second Shakespeare play of the Summer is now on stage! Here’s what to expect: In this lively comedy, the King of Navarre and his three companions, Berowne, Dumaine and Longaville, commit to a life of study for three...
Jul 06, 2023
LOHUD: Hudson Valley Shakespeare sets bold path at new home, with help from its friends
Originally published on July 5, 2023 in LOHUD by Peter Kramer. In the pre-battle gloom of a French overnight, before England’s fateful day at Agincourt, King Henry V disguises himself and walks among the fires of his camp, gauging his army’s...
Jul 01, 2023
CHRONOGRAM: “Love’s Labor’s Lost” at Hudson Valley Shakespeare
Originally published on July 1, 2023 in Chronogram by Nola Storms. “Love’s Labor’s Lost” is a rarely performed Shakespearean comedy. Possible causes: out-of-date political humor and complex wordplay. Director Amanda Dehnert has updated...
Jun 12, 2023
NIPPERTOWN: HVSF’S “HENRY V” Creatively Crowns a New Leader
Originally published on June 10, 2023 on Nippertown by Patrick White. What does it do to Shakespeare’s rousing patriotic play Henry V play to cast Henry with a woman? Hudson Valley Shakespeare is asking this summer how does it make us see...
Jun 07, 2023
HVSF Awarded $10 Million by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
GARRISON, NY (June 7, 2023) – The Hudson Valley Shakespeare announced today a grant award totaling $10 million from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the construction of a LEED-Certified outdoor theater, and the...
May 22, 2023
Sharing Space
Originally published on May 19, 2023 by Alison Rooney in The Highlands Current. With fewer vestiges of the pandemic inertia that lingered into 2022, the Hudson Valley Shakespeare is preparing for an energy-infused season this summer.
May 12, 2023
Draft Environmental Impact Statement Now Publicly Available
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GARRISON, NY (May 11, 2023) – The Hudson Valley Shakespeare’s (HVSF) Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), which was completed and submitted to the Philipstown Planning Board on Monday, April...