The Gathering Place for Great Performances at the Gateway to Woodstock, New York; Uniting Country Living with Fulfilled Expectations of Great Quality Performances; Rooted in the Founding of Woodstock: The Town, The Festival and The Destination
The Non-Profit Iconic Site of American Theatre & Music History Established 1938 as One of the First Rural Extensions of Broadway
by Robert Elwyn, A 5th Generation Member of One of Woodstock's Oldest Families
Woodstock Symphony Orchestra presents
WOODSTOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT
Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 7:30pm
Join the Woodstock Symphony Orchestra for an exciting opening to the 2025/2026 season. The concert under the baton of Mina Kim, Music Director, will feature 'Les Préludes' by Liszt, 'Trumpet Concerto' by Hummel with soloist Bill Owens, and Symphony No. 2 in D Major by Sibelius delivers soul-stirring Classical Music featuring regional professional musicians to Woodstock, New York in its 46th Season... Click Here for Further Details and Tickets
The Woodstock Playhouse is a member site of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area which protects, promotes, and interprets the nationally significant resources of the Hudson River Valley for the benefit of our Nation.
Woodstock Playhouse Production Company in conjunction with the New York Conservatory for the Arts presents
December 12, 13, 14, 2025
From the opening celebration in Mother Goose Land to the triumphant March of the Wooden Soldiers, the adventure of 'Babes in Toyland' is a treat for the entire family. The reworked music and contemporary flare makes Francoeur & Ryland's adaptation of Victor Herbert's 'Babes in Toyland' an updated classic with our professional holiday cast and rising local performing arts youth... Click Here for Further Details and Tickets
Woodstock Symphony Orchestra presents
WOODSTOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT
Saturday, January 10, 2026 at 7:30pm
Join the Woodstock Symphony Orchestra for another exciting concert of the 2025/2026 season. The concert under the baton of Mina Kim, Music Director, will feature the Overture in C Major by Fanny Mendelssohn, ​Cello Concerto in A Minor, op. 129 by Robert Schumann with soloist Christopher Santos, and Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, op. 55 “Eroica” by Ludwig van Beethoven promising soul-stirring Classical Music featuring regional professional musicians to Woodstock, New York in its 46th Season... Click Here for Further Details and Tickets
Woodstock Symphony Orchestra presents
UNITY, LOVE, AND THE NEW WORLD
WOODSTOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT
Saturday, March 14, 2026 at 7:30pm
Join the Woodstock Symphony Orchestra for another exciting concert of the 2025/2026 season. The concert under the baton of Mina Kim, Music Director, will feature Umoja: Anthem of Unity by Valerie Coleman, ​La Traviata Prelude and selected excerpts from Act I by Giuseppe Verdi with soloist Paulina Swierczek, and Symphony No. 9, in E Minor, op. 95 “From the New World” by Antonin DvoÅ™ák promising more soul-stirring Classical Music featuring regional professional musicians to Woodstock, New York in its 46th Season... Click Here for Further Details & Tickets
Our Season's
Sponsors and
Community Leaders
Thank you all for an extraordinary 2025 Summer Theatre Festival Season!
The Woodstock Playhouse Summer Theatre Festival Season is a tradition in Woodstock, New York since 1938, the year that Robert Elwyn, professional actor/stage director/producer/Hollywood film director and fifth-generation member of one of Woodstock's oldest families, established the Woodstock Playhouse on its current site at the Gateway to the town. Each season features rising Pre-Broadway professional actor/singer/dancers from across the country and around the corner. This season we celebrate the 87th anniversary of playhouse seasons which launched the classic careers of Robert Hutton, Lee Marvin, Karl Malden, Larry Hagman, Estelle Parsons, Anne Meara, Judd Hirsch, Chevy Chase, Andrea Martin, to mention a few, and our 15th Contemporary Anniversary of seasons launching the careers of Dimitri J. Moise, Riza Takahashi, Tassy Kirbas, Hank Santos, Johnny Duvelson and many more. Catch a rising star at Woodstock Playhouse each summer from early-June to mid-August, at the Stepping-Stone to Broadway and Professional Performance Careers since 1938. It's Broadway in Your Backyard...in a charmer of a town steeped in American Theatre and Music History filled with Art Galleries, great shops, pubs, restaurants, lodgings and outdoor activities for all to enjoy; plus, the Woodstock Playhouse is climate controlled and cooled for your comfort.
​ Click Here for the 2025 Season's Playbills ​​
It is an honor to share and say "thank you!" to our 2025 Theatre Festival Sponsors; the important community leaders who are helping to sustain and care for the Iconic Woodstock Playhouse and our community. Please frequent their businesses to show your appreciation for their leadership. Click on their ads to follow the link to their website.
The Gallery at Woodstock Playhouse
presents
​'WELCOME TO WOODSTOCK'
​Featuring the Artwork of Sixteen Celebrated Local Artists
September 20th through October 2025 at the Woodstock Playhouse
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​​Join us for any event at the Woodstock Playhouse to experience 'Welcome to Woodstock'. The exhibit features the work of 16 local artist; reflecting and resonating the diverse, multifaceted community of Woodstock, NY expertly and passionately curated by Diane Jones Godfrey. The current exhibition marks the celebratory 15th anniversary of the renewal and reopening of the Woodstock Playhouse currently celebrating its 87th year as a legacy destination at the Gateway to Woodstock, New York.
Enjoy the exhibit when visiting the iconic Woodstock Playhouse for a show throughout the month of October and early November; or contact us to schedule a private visit and viewing. All artwork in the exhibition is for sale with a portion of the proceeds applied to the care and beautification of the Woodstock Playhouse and its grounds for the community.
To Preview the Artists and their artwork, click here.​​
Elliott Landy's Woodstock Vision:
The Spirit of a Generation
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Elliott Landy, born in 1942, began photographing the anti-Vietnam war movement and the underground music culture in New York City in 1967.
He photographed many of the underground rock and roll superstars, both backstage and onstage, from 1967 to 69.
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His images of Bob Dylan and The Band, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Joan Baez, Van Morrison, Richie Havens, and many others documented the music scene during that classic rock and roll period which culminated with the 1969 Woodstock Festival, of which he was the official photographer.
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After that, Elliott moved on to other inspirations and art forms, photographing his own children and travels, creating impressionist flower photographs and doing motion and kaleidoscopic photography in both still and film formats.
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His photographs have been published worldwide for many years in all print mediums including covers of Rolling Stone, Life, the Saturday Evening Post, etc. and album covers, calendars, photographic book collections, etc.
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He has published Woodstock Vision, The Spirit of A Generation, in book and CD-ROM format, and authored the book Woodstock 69, The First Festival.
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He is currently publishing a series of limited edition lithographs of his classic rock photographs. To additionally view and purchase Elliott Landy's photographs and merchandise, click here to visit his website.
