Hudson Valley Shakespeare will stage four productions on its outdoor stage in Garrison, New York, between June 2 and October 3, 2027, among them a new Sunday in the Park with George directed by Amanda Dehnert.
The 2027 summer comes forty years after the company began, and it starts by going back to the beginning. A Midsummer Night's Dream, the first play Hudson Valley Shakespeare ever produced, returns in a staging by Ryan Quinn that runs June 2–September 25.
Two days later, on June 4, artistic director Davis McCallum opens The Cherry Tortured, or The Parable of the Great Unsticking, a new play by Aaron Posner drawn from Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Posner, whose earlier Chekhov rewrites include Life Sucks, moves the story out of 19th-century Russia and into the present-day Hudson Valley, where a woman called Miss Lulu comes back after five years to a family estate that is falling down around relatives who have not changed at all. It plays through July 31.
Sunday in the Park with George, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and James Lapine (book), follows on June 6 and runs through September 4. Its first act is set in 1880s Paris, where the painter Georges Seurat is consumed by A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte at the expense of his relationship with Dot; its second jumps a century to his great-grandson, an artist trying to work out what to make next. Here it will be played in the open air, with the Hudson Highlands behind the stage.
This is a separate production from the Sunday in the Park with George that Barrington Stage Company and Tectonic Theater Project are planning for summer 2027 at the Boyd-Quinson Theater in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, with Moisés Kaufman directing, which we reported earlier this week.
Macbeth closes the season, running August 7–October 3 under Jenn Thompson, who returns to the company to direct it.
No casting, prices or on-sale dates have been given yet. Hudson Valley Shakespeare says those will come later, and notes in its season announcement that every date is subject to change.
