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Oct 23, 2025
2026 Season Announcement
Inaugural Season in the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center Announced!
Aug 19, 2022
VOX: Recreating The Simpsons in the post-apocalypse
Originally published on August 16, 2022 in Vox by Constance Grady. Anne Washburn’s play Mr. Burns begins with a striking image. A group of four people sits around a campfire. They are tense, watchful, carrying guns. A woman apparently mute...
Aug 17, 2022
TIMES UNION: Mohegan Playwright Madeline Sayet Explores Belonging and the Bard
Playwright Madeline Sayet wouldn’t blame you if you thought the founding of the United States was a one-way street — if you were under the impression, held by many Americans, that as Europeans colonized the “New World,” its Native peoples...
Aug 17, 2022
THEATERMANIA: Imagining the Future Through the Lens of The Simpsons
After the apocalypse, what will survive? Sports? The great works of literature? Or Bart Simpson? In Anne Washburn’s 10-year-old but still extraordinarily timely Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, the answer is firmly the latter.
Aug 12, 2022
HIGHLANDS CURRENT: Pushing a Sitcom Past the Apocalypse
Originally published on August 12, 2022 in The Highlands Current by Joe Dizney. Written by Anne Washburn, with music by Michael Friedman, lyrics by Washburn and direction by Davis McCallum, Mr. Burns is the darkest of dark comedies and unlike...
Aug 10, 2022
NIPPERTOWN: A Sensational Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse with The Simpsons
Originally published on August 6, 2022 in Nippertown by Patrick White. “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play”, at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare, is a 2012 black comedy by Anne Washburn with music by Michael Friedman which finds us huddled...
Aug 10, 2022
THE NEW YORKER: Intelligence, humor, passion, and clarity
Originally published on August 15, 2022 by Ken Marks in The New Yorker (“The Theatre, Now Playing”). With color-and gender-blind casting becoming more common in today’s theatre, the Hudson Valley Shakespeare is making a strong case for...
Aug 03, 2022
‘Simpsons’-Inspired ‘Mr. Burns’ Takes the Stage in New York
To view the original article, please click here: ‘Simpsons’-Inspired ‘Mr. Burns’ Takes the Stage in New York | Broadcasting+Cable (nexttv.com)
Jul 29, 2022
THE NEW YORKER: A landscape of humor and dread
Originally published on July 25, 2022 by Ken Marks in The New Yorker (“The Theatre, Now Playing”). “The Simpsons,” a starting point for Anne Washburn’s 2012 play, has been on TV for thirty-two years, only slightly shorter than the...
Jul 27, 2022
THE NEW YORK TIMES: In ‘Mr. Burns,’ Apocalypse Now, With ‘The Simpsons’ and Songs
Originally published on July 27, 2022, in The New York Times by Alexis Soloski Stories, like viruses, are transmissible. In the brain, in the blood, they mutate and change. Tragedies become comedies; dramas become myths. And in Anne...
Jul 26, 2022
HVSF’S “ROMEO & JULIET” ARE STAR-CROSSED SENIORS
BY PATRICK WHITE ON JUL 26, 2022 Click here to see the original article: HVSF’s “Romeo & Juliet” Are Star-Crossed Seniors | Nippertown The Hudson Valley Shakespeare has opened up their new home with a rejuvenated, fresh, coursing take...
Jul 03, 2022
The Greenest Theater in America
For a decade now, I’ve been raving about the Hudson Valley Shakespeare. The artistic excellence of its productions rivals that of Manhattan’s Public Theater on a more modest budget. We admire the audacity of its sometimes-edgy interpretations...
Jun 21, 2022
10 Outdoor Plays and Musicals Worth Traveling for This Summer
Originally posted on June 21, 2022; click here for the original article. The details: Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, Balboa Park (June 5 to July 10)