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 Playhouse Productions presents
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Woodstock Symphony Orchestra presents
"HARMONIOUS FUSION" CLASSICAL AND JAZZ
​WSO Artistic Director, Mina Kim leads the Woodstock Symphony Orchestra concert which opens with two works that welcome spring. "Appalachian Spring" with its rustic air and use of the Shaker song "Simple Gifts", shows Copland's determination to write music that was identifiable to Americans. Frederick Delius' short tone-poem for small orchestra, "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring" was composed in 1912 and may be the best-known of his works.
Leonard Bernstein used jazz elements in "West Side Story"... To Purchase Tickets & For More Information, Click Here ​​
New York Conservatory for the Arts presents
NYCA Youth Performing Arts students and adults perform the musical based on one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories and the classic animated film: Disney's ''The Little Mermaid' is a delight for all ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner, Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater and a compelling book by Doug Wright, this celebrated fable will inspire your heart with its irresistible songs, including "Under the Sea" and "Part of Your World." Ariel, King Triton's youngest daughter, wishes to pursue the human Prince Eric in the world above, bargaining with the evil sea witch, Ursula... To Purchase Tickets & For More Information, Click Here ​​
Woodstock Playhouse Productions presents
Our 2025 cast of pre-Broadway rising professionals are here for the summer. Join Rydell High’s senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys’ and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head “greaser” Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of their “Summer Nights” as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such songs as “Greased Lightnin’,” “It’s Raining on Prom Night” and “Alone at the Drive-In Movie,” recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Elvis Presley that became a generation's soundtrack.... To Purchase Tickets & For More Information, Click Here ​​
Woodstock Playhouse Productions presents
Rodgers & Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA!
Our 2025 cast of pre-Broadway rising professionals are here for the summer. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, setting the standards and rules of modern musical theatre. In a Western territory just after the turn of the 20th century, a high-spirited rivalry between local farmers and cowboys provides a colorful background for Curly, a charming cowboy, and Laurey, a feisty farm girl, to play out their love story. Their romantic journey, as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road, contrasts with the comic exploits of brazen Ado Annie and hapless Will Parker in a.... To Purchase Tickets & For More Information, Click Here ​​
Woodstock Playhouse Productions Theatre for Youth presents
Roald Dahl's WILLY WONKA for Young Audiences
​Our 2025 cast of pre-Broadway rising professionals join our youth performers from NYCA for the delicious adventures experienced by Charlie Bucket on his visit to Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory light up the stage in this captivating adaptation of Roald Dahl's fantastical tale. Featuring the enchanting songs from the 1971 film starring Gene Wilder, and new songs by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka Theatre for Young Audiences is a scrumdidilyumptious musical guaranteed to delight everyone's sweet tooth. ​Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka TYA follows enigmatic candy manufacturer Willy Wonka... To Purchase Tickets & For More Information, Click Here ​​
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.
Our Season's
Sponsors and
Community Leaders
Woodstock Playhouse Productions presents
Our 2025 cast of pre-Broadway rising professionals are here for the summer. Clue is a family-friendly delight from start to finish, chocked full of groan-worthy one-liners and great fun! It’s a dark and stormy night, and you’ve been invited to a very unusual dinner party. Each of the guests has an alias, the butler offers a variety of weapons, and the host is, well, dead. So whodunit? Join the iconic oddballs known as Scarlet, Plum, White, Green, Peacock, and Mustard as they race to find the murderer in Boddy Manor before the body count stacks up. Based on the cult classic film and the popular board game, CLUE is a madcap comedy that will keep you guessing until the final twist.... To Purchase Tickets & For More Information, Click Here ​​
Woodstock Playhouse Productions presents
Our 2025 cast of pre-Broadway rising professionals are here for the summer. In 1893 Paris, La Môme Pistache, the proud owner of a Montmartre dance hall, battles with Aristide Forestiere, a self-righteous judge determined to close all establishments featuring the scandalous can-can. Eventually, the two fall in love, and the judge concedes that “obscenity is in the eye of the beholder.” Cole Porter’s celebrated score features the famous “Garden of Eden Ballet,” along with several entrancing Porter standards, including “C’est Magnifique,” “I Love Paris,” "Allez-vous-en", “It’s All Right with Me” and the show-stopping title number, "Can-Can".
Can-Can premiered on Broadway on May 7, 1953 at the Shubert Theatre,... To Purchase Tickets & For More Information, Click Here ​​
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.
Woodstock Symphony Orchestra and
The Gallery at the Woodstock Playhouse
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PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
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Featuring Artwork and Sculpture by
Over 25 Local Artists
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An exciting Art Exhibit presenting over 25 local artists in collaboration with Woodstock Symphony Orchestra's performance, the music of "Pictures at an Exhibition". Join us Saturday, March 22nd at 6:30pm for the concert and art opening and then for the Gallery opening and Artist Reception on Sunday, March 23rd, 1-4pm. Exhibition on display through early May.​
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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.
