Hudson Valley Shakespeare in Garrison, New York, has unveiled their 2026 summer season. It will include a new staging of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's long-running West End and Broadway hit Les Misérables. Directed by Jenn Thompson, the staging will play in the theatre's new outdoor space August 12-September 27, 2026. Casting is to be announced. Amanda Morton will serve as music supervisor.
Hudson Valley's outdoor production is being presented by arrangement with both Music Theatre International and Cameron Mackintosh. This production is unrelated to the Les Miz arena spectacular tour that is scheduled to play NYC next summer.
The company, which presents titles in repertory, is opening their season with a new production of As You Like It, directed by Miriam Laube and featuring original music by Amanda Dehnert, performing June 10-September 18, 2026.
Then, Kurt Rhoads will star in the title role of King Lear in a staging directed by Davis McCallum June 12-September 18, 2026.
The upcoming season is the first that will perform in the company's new, permanent outdoor space, the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center in Garrison, New York. Also new in 2026 is a series of student matinees that will bring students to the theatre for "an inspiring day of world-class performance and discovery." Both As You Like It and King Lear will be part of that program in 2026.
"The well-known monologue in act two of As You Like It refers to the stages in life, so it is fitting that the play will be the debut performance in HVS’s new space, the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center, as we enter our next stage of life as a company, and a community," says Artistic Director McCallum in a statement. "We’ve programmed a season that celebrates love—for each other, for nature, for freedom—as well as one that looks to the past to try to make sense of the present. We have been building towards this moment for more than five years and now I am eagerly counting down the days until we can welcome audiences into our new home.”
Ticket information is forthcoming. Visit HVShakespeare.org.
