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Oct 23, 2025
2026 Season Announcement
Inaugural Season in the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center Announced!
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...
Aug 09, 2019
CYRANO Co-Authors Jason O’Connell & Brenda Withers on the Process of Adapting a Classic
CYRANO co-authors Jason O’Connell and Brenda Withers discuss the process of tackling Edmon Rostand’s unabridged text. The pair focused on keeping the classic moments and breadth of the story while collaborating to create a tight script. The...
Aug 02, 2019
HV1: “Festival Delivers Zesty Five-Actor CYRANO”
Originally published on August 1, 2019 by Frances Marion Platt in Hudson Valley One (“Hudson Valley Shakespeare delivers zesty five-actor Cyrano“).
Jul 05, 2019
HV1: CYMBELINE is “immensely fun and gracefully executed.”
Originally published on July 3, 2019 by Frances Marion Platt in Hudson Valley One (“Brush up your obscure Shakespeare with an energetic Cymbeline at Boscobel“).
May 11, 2019
There’s an Overgrown Teenager Inside Cyrano’s Body
We caught up with longtime HVSF fan-favorite and CYRANO co-playwright Jason O’Connell to find out why he and his writing partner, Brenda Withers, took on this well-trodden romance. CYRANO previews begin on June 27, with direction by Meredith...
Sep 01, 2018
RIP VAN WINKLE Cast Spotlight: Roger, Yudy, and Maribel
Roger Acevedo and Yudy Gomez (Demons, Pirates), ensemble cast members from Newburgh NY, talk with Maribel Martinez (Sara Van Winkle) about HVSF’s 2018 production of RIP VAN WINKLE, their own experience as community theater-makers abroad and...
Aug 26, 2018
The Taming of Petruchio
HVSF Company Member Biko Eisen-Martin has been bringing “collegiate gamesmanship and good looks” (New York Times) to the stage this summer as THE TAMING OF THE SHREW’s wild Petruchio. As the show comes to a close, Biko shares his take on...
Aug 23, 2018
NPR: Actors, Married For 35 Years, Enrich Their Lives With Others’ Words
Originally heard on August 23, 2018 on NPR’s Morning Edition. Recorded and edited by Jeff Lunden. Plays are often so intense that actors fall in love. It was 35 years ago, Nance Williamson and Kurt Rhoads were cast opposite each other in...
Jul 29, 2018
Stephen Paul Johnson joins casts of TAMING, RICHARD II
Stephen Paul Johnson* will join HVSF’s 2018 company, filling the roles of John of Gaunt (RICHARD II) and Gremio (THE TAMING OF THE SHREW). Beginning Tuesday, July 31, Johnson will return for his nineteenth season under the Theater Tent, where...
Jun 22, 2018
Julia Coffey and Liz Wisan on Performing Shakespeare in 2018
Originally published on June 19, 2018 by Sarah Rebell, with photography by Jessica Nash, The Interval [HVSF Actors] Julia Coffey and Liz Wisan are no strangers to Shakespeare. Combined, their credits include As You Like It, Macbeth, Merchant of...
May 12, 2018
Meet the Young Local Talents in this Season’s ROBIN HOOD
One Saturday in February, dozens of kids from all over the region auditioned for the roles of Sarah and Jethro Summers in this season’s THE HEART OF ROBIN HOOD, bringing an energy and youthful creativity we don’t often get to feature at the...
Apr 29, 2018
Golden State Killer: HVSF Alum recorded ‘Gone in the Dark’ bestseller
Originally published on April 27, 2018 by Peter D. Kramer, LoHud. [HVSF Alum] Gabra Zackman couldn’t help but gush a little. The voice actor and Larchmont native — a longtime mainstay and favorite at Hudson Valley Shakespeare in Garrison...