Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s 2024 Line-Up

HVSF’s Mainstage season will include By The Queen, by Whitney White (Macbeth in Stride), adapted fromWilliam Shakespeare’s Henry VI and Richard III, and directed by Shana Cooper (The Taming of the Shrewat HVSF); the World Premiere of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Heidi Armbruster (Mrs. Christie), adapted from Agatha Christie, and directed by Ryan Quinn (The Tempest at HVSF); and 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 Bedlam. All three productions will run in repertory throughout the summer.

Davis McCallum, the Festival’s Artistic Director, said, “A classical theater company like ours is always building bridges between the past and the present, a conversation across centuries, or sometimes millennia, that happens in the very present moment of live performance. Our 2024 season will feature three adaptations of classic stories – carrying on the tradition of Shakespeare himself adapting existing stories for his own plays – brought to new life by some of the most exciting artists working in the American theater today.”

HVSF will also produce an HVSF Educational Tour of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothingdirected by Kholoud Sawaf which will be available to regional middle and high schools from March 20 – April 28, 2024.

Full details about HVSF’s 2024 season, including casting, dates, and ticket information, will be announced at a later date.

This will be HVSF’s third season on the grounds of its new home in Garrison, NY, using its pre-existing seasonal theater tent during the construction of a permanent open-air theater venue, slated to open in 2026. HVSF has engaged a team of experts including Jeanne Gang + Studio Gang, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, and Fisher Dachs Associates Theater Consultants to lead the design process of the performance space and surrounding campus. Now and into the future, HVSF audiences will continue to experience the company’s signature open-air productions and pre-show picnicking on the grounds.

MORE ON THE 2024 SUMMER SEASON:

You can kick my words to the curb. I think it’s time that we heard from her.”

 An ice-cold, high-octane adaptation of Euripides’ play written in battle rap verse, this brand-new hip-hop version of Medea sheds contemporary light on the classic tragedy of family, power, and revenge – as terrifying and shocking today as it was two thousand years ago. Quintero’s version of the story reignites the sacred rage of our ancestors and illuminates in the most human terms the extraordinary lengths that some people will travel to even the scales of justice.

Originally commissioned and developed by Red Bull Theater. The rolling world premiere of Luis Quintero’sMedea: Re-Versed begins at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison NY, in June 2024 and Off-Broadway at Red Bull Theater and Bedlam in NYC, from September 12 to October 15, 2024.

 HVSF Educational Tour

Much Ado About Nothing

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Kholoud Sawaf

March 20 – April 28, 2024

 “There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and Beatrice: they never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them.”

 Scandal abounds in Shakespeare’s hilarious, biting comedy about lies, courtship, and the chaos created in pursuit of true love. The famous bantering lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, trade barbs while matching wits (and hearts) in this celebrated romantic romp. Perfect for the whole family, this 90-minute production is built to tour, and geared towards audiences of all ages. Learn more about education programming here.