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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...
Aug 22, 2018
New York Times: Rip Van Winkle, Newly Awake, Meets His Neighbors Onstage
Originally published on August 21, 2018 by Jennifer Schuessler in The New York Times (“Rip Van Winkle, Newly Awake, Meets His Neighbors Onstage”).
Aug 21, 2018
New Yorker: ROBIN HOOD “turns the familiar legend on its feather-hatted head”
Originally published on August 21, 2018 by Ken Marks in The New Yorker (“Goings On About Town”). David Farr’s 2011 play, THE HEART OF ROBIN HOOD, directed by Suzanne Agins, turns the familiar legend on its feather-hatted head, and is all...
Aug 04, 2018
Hair & Power: Bianca’s Wig Reveal
HVSF Company Member Britney Simpson plays the sugary-sweet, scheming Bianca in this season’s THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. And while the skill required to pull off her expertly-staged dance numbers and angelic vocal interludes may be on full display...
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...
Jul 27, 2018
Becoming the Green Man
Originally published on July 20, 2018 by Mark Westin for The Highlands Current. Conservatory Company member Colleen Litchfield is the actor behind THE HEART OF ROBIN HOOD’s mystifying Green Man! In this video for The Highlands Current,...
Jul 27, 2018
Mark Bedard, Bullet-Headed Bulldozer
For returning audiences, seeing Mark Bedard – a celebrated clown and HVSF fan favorite – in the role of the “bullet-headed” Henry Bolingbroke (Wall Street Journal) in this season’s RICHARD II may come as a bit of a shock. The...
Jul 26, 2018
With Full Circle, Everyone Gets Into the Act
Originally published by Fina Badolato, Times Herald-Record One of Dante De Leo’s most vivid boyhood memories is visiting the Bear Mountain Inn on Sundays with his family, and being captivated by a tapestry hanging above the stone fireplace. The...
Jul 24, 2018
5 Questions: Wesley Mann
Originally published on July 20, 2018 by Alison Rooney in The Highlands Current. Wesley Mann has performed in 13 seasons of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare. This summer he portrays the Earl of Northumberland in RICHARD II and the manservant...
Jul 24, 2018
Davis McCallum on the “Chameleonic Shape-Shifting” of Rep with WAMC
HVSF Artistic Director and RICHARD II Director Davis McCallum joined WAMC’s Joe Donahue in-studio for July 24th’s episode of The Roundtable! Get his take on the “chameleonic shape-shifting” of our company as they weave in and out of...
Jul 20, 2018
Robyn Kerr Talks ROBIN HOOD, RIP VAN WINKLE with “Token Theatre Friends”
2018 Company Member Robyn Kerr (Marion, ROBIN HOOD; Geertje, RIP VAN WINKLE) sat down with American Theatre’s Token Theatre Friends – Jose Solís and Diep Tran – to talk about her roles in David Farr’s THE HEART OF ROBIN HOOD and Seth...
Jul 19, 2018
TAMING is New York Times Critic’s Pick!
Originally published on July 19, 2018 by Jesse Green in The New York Times (“Review: Taming ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ Under a Tent”). When last we dropped in on Kate, Petruchio, Bianca and the gang, they were contestants in some kind...