{"id":2417341,"date":"2026-05-15T01:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2417341"},"modified":"2026-05-15T01:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:38:20","slug":"hudson-valley-shakespeare-theater-set-for-first-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hudson-valley-shakespeare-theater-set-for-first-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson Valley Shakespeare theater set for first season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hudson Valley Shakespeare on Thursday cut the ribbon on its new\u00a0Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center, opening the facility in Garrison following completion of a six-year project.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly 15,000-square-foot venue is the company&#8217;s first ever permanent home and theater. Its first season of shows begins on June 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe opening of the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center recognizes the important role that arts and culture organizations play in strengthening communities, welcoming visitors, supporting local economies, and stewarding shared public spaces,\u201d said Kendra Ekelund, managing director of Hudson Valley Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center was made possible by two extraordinary acts of generosity: Christopher Davis\u2019s vision in conveying this 98-acre landscape to HVS, and Wendy Scripps\u2019s lead philanthropic support, naming this theater in honor of her father, Samuel H. Scripps,&#8221; said Davis McCallum, artistic director.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The $33 million project includes a LEED certified theater and ecological land restoration, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul, who also announced the opening of the center on Thursday. She said the project was supported by a combined $15.25 million in state funding.<\/p>\n<div class=\"data-image-wrapper img-hash-d0f9069a-dcc1-4af0-ac16-cc9afca0aad6 hashed-image center percent-hundred caption-container image\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: relative;\"><\/p>\n<p>(Spectrum News 1\/Richard Peterson)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source spectrumlocalnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hudson Valley Shakespeare on Thursday cut the ribbon on its new\u00a0Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center, opening the facility in Garrison following completion of a six-year project. The nearly 15,000-square-foot venue is the company&#8217;s first ever permanent home and theater. Its first season of shows begins on June 10. \u201cThe opening of the Samuel H. Scripps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2417342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[22694,360254,361822,21738,26783],"class_list":["post-2417341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-app-arts-entertainment","tag-app-latest-arts-entertainment-stories","tag-hudson-valley","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Hudson-Valley-Shakespeare-theater-set-for-first-season.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417343,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417341\/revisions\/2417343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2417342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}