Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (NY)

The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival began in 1987 with a modest outdoor production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed under the stars in a meadow at Manitoga, industrial designer Russell Wright’s home in Garrison, New York, fifty miles north of Manhattan. 22 years later, the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival is a critically-acclaimed regional theater, attracting audiences from the tri-state area and beyond. In addition to its summer productions, the Festival sponsors year-round education programs, including Access-Shakespeare, a fully staged touring production;Shakespeare Students on Stage; and Free Will, an artists-in-residence program which teaches over 22,000 students annually from elementary school through college.