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
Almost Floyd presents
AN EVENING OF PINK FLOYD CLASSICS
Saturday, May 2, 2026 at 7:00pm
Experience the timeless magic of Pink Floyd with Almost Floyd, the tri-state area's premier tribute band. Covering decades of iconic material from one of the most legendary rock bands in history, Almost Floyd delivers an authentic and immersive performance that captures the essence of Pink Floyd’s music. From the haunting tones of Wish You Were Here to the explosive power of Comfortably Numb, audiences are mesmerized by the band’s dedication to recreating every sound and nuance with near-original precision.... 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​
The Gallery at the Woodstock Playhouse is honored to invite you to ‘Mary Elwyn: A Solo Exhibition of Oil Paintings’ opening November 22nd and showing through March of 2026.
Mary Elwyn is the cousin of Robert Elwyn who was responsible for building the Woodstock Playhouse on its site in 1938. They are both members of one of Woodstock’s oldest and most positively influential families.
Born and raised in the Woodstock art colony, Mary Elwyn’s desire to become an artist began in early childhood when she was coached by her father Grant Elwyn, a commercial artist.
Some of her young friends were children of artists and she has fond memories of watching their parents as they worked at their easels. She was also inspired by local artists who demonstrated their techniques to the children attending Woodstock Elementary School through the “artists in the schools” program.
Having studied with many Woodstock painters including Ethel Magafan, Franklin Alexander, John Pike, Robert Angeloch, Lois Woolley and Zhang Hong Nian, her paintings often focus on those special Woodstock places she has known and loved all of her life i.e. Tannery Brook, Overlook Mountain, the Millstream and the Sawkill.
She works exclusively in oil with a concentration on still life and Hudson Valley landscapes.
Mary Elwyn’s paintings are an illumination of Woodstock’s Art and Nature – in essence, art for the collector who has a desire to invite the spirit of Woodstock – the longstanding community and town – into their homes and lives; an investment in honor, devotion, a treasured artist, a family playhouse and an age of unconditional renewal.
Additionally, Mary Elwyn was introduced to metalsmithing in the 1970's and went on to create a jewelry and tableware business selling her designs, which won numerous national awards, to more than three hundred craft galleries in the United States, Canada and Japan.
She is pleased to be included in this special Art Exhibit to benefit the Woodstock Playhouse Landscape Fund for the beautification and enjoyment of the community and artists.
View and purchase the oil paintings of Mary Elwyn when attending a performance or during a private showing by appointment.
Join us for the Woodstock Symphony Orchestra Saturday, November 22nd and spend time in the gallery in the good company of Mary Elwyn.
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.
