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
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. As we are poised to begin the 2025 season featuring rising Pre-Broadway professional actor/singer/dancers from across the country and around the corner, 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 this summer; 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.​​
Our Cast & Crew 2025
Rock Academy presents
BEST OF SEASON
May 31at 7pm
Rock Academy presents our Best of Season show, featuring songs from our Judas Priest, 80s Prom, Styx v Journey, Heart and Stevie Wonder shows. Best of Season is a fundraiser for Rock Academy's scholarship program, which gives the gift of Rock to kids who could not otherwise afford it. It's a great night for a great cause.... 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.
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 ​​
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 ​​
Our Season's
Sponsors and
Community Leaders
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 ​​
The THE BAND Band presents
A TRIBUTE TO BOB DYLAN & THE BAND
The Basement Tapes 50th Anniversary
August 30th at 8pm
Join us for a special tribute to The Band and their mentor and long-time collaborator, Bob Dylan, celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Basement Tapes! No artist is more closely associated with Woodstock than Bob Dylan and The Band. In the summer of 1967, they recorded dozens of songs in the basement of Big Pink, including the classics “Tears Of Rage,” “This Wheel’s On Fire,” and “I Shall Be Released.” The recordings were never meant to be publicized, but in June 1975, after 8 years of... 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.
The Gallery at Woodstock Playhouse
presents
​STANDPOINT 3
​A Comparative Look at 5 Contemporary Hudson Valley Artists
​May 10th through June 1st at the Woodstock Playhouse
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STANDPOINT is Back! Five Artists Work the Same Subjects with Their Individual Perspective and Style.
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STANDPOINT was formed by JW Cornbroom and Archil Pichkhadze for the purpose of engaging with other active artists and providing challenging artistic tasks with art exhibitions in sight as a goal.
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Join us Saturday, May 10th from 5-7pm for the Artists Opening Reception and MEET THE ARTISTS on Saturday, May 31st 1-5pm.
To Preview the Artists and their artwork, Click Here Now.​​
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.
