Hudson Classical Theater Company

The HW was founded in 2004 by NMS with the intention of delivering the most vibrant, relevant, and engaging outdoor theatre possible. The first season consisted of a single modest production of "The Tempest" which performed over two weeks in July. Our season has now expanded to encompass the entire summer. We produce three shows, each for a month run. Over the years our audiences have grown to the hundreds, multiplying every year by word of mouth and our growing reputation. The first season consisted of a single modest production of "The Tempest" which performed over two weeks in July. Our season has now expanded to encompass the entire summer. We produce three shows, each for a month run. Over the years our audiences have grown to the hundreds, multiplying every year by word of mouth and our growing reputation.

The HW was founded in 2004 by NMS with the intention of delivering the most vibrant, relevant, and engaging outdoor theatre possible. The first season consisted of a single modest production of "The Tempest" which performed over two weeks in July. Our season has now expanded to encompass the entire summer. We produce three shows, each for a month run. Over the years our audiences have grown to the hundreds, multiplying every year by word of mouth and our growing reputation.

About

Hudson Classical Theater Company
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Occupation	Director
Website	Yarbrough Strategic Advisors

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The "original" femme fatale, Marlene Dietrich, in a publicity shot for Josef von Sternberg's mordant melodrama Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel; 1930)

Located along the Hudson River in Riverside Park, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (New York) is a beautiful back-drop and the north patio lends itself to a natural three-quarter thrust stage much like the one used by the actors at the original Globe Theater. This design allows our actors to freely interact with the audience, be it dogs, children, or just passers by. Our community of artists have a commitment to present the classics in quality productions, accessible to the Upper Westside and all five boroughs of the City of New York. People from all over the world make this unique theatre experience a destination point during their visit to the City.

In addition to our summer season, we teach workshops of the classics to high school students as well as bring our productions into schools. We also stage Shakespeare readings throughout the year. While we cover a lot of the costs out of our own pockets, we are only able to continue to provide such wonderful entertaining productions through the donations of our friends, our generous audience, and other supporters.

Summer performances on the North Patio of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Riverside Park, West 89th and Riverside Drive in New York City

Past productions include The Tempest, Hamlet, Midsummer Night Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Macbeth, Love's Labour's Lost, The Bachaae, Twelfth Night: Or What You Will

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Mission

The mission of HW is to present the classics in exciting productions inspired by our past and relevant to our present day. We want to educate the novice and enthrall the well-versed. We embrace the traditional and innovative, the classical and the modern classic. Through the dedication, passion and intelligence of all our theater artists, we bring these works to life. When our work elicits a true emotional response from an audience member, this experience reaffirms that theatre is a “ware” that is essential to daily life.

Production History

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Shadows of window blinds fall upon private eye Jake Gittes, performed by Jack Nicholson, in Chinatown (1974).

• 2004: The Tempest, directed by NMS
• 2005: Twelfth Night, directed by NMS

Black-and-white image of a young woman wearing a tuxedo-like suit and top hat. She sits with her right leg, almost parallel to the ground, over her left knee. She leans forward and gazes out directly with a tight-lipped smile. In her right hand she holds a cigarette from which a large plume of smoke rises.

The "original" femme fatale, Marlene Dietrich, in a publicity shot for Josef von Sternberg's mordant melodrama Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel; 1930)

• 2006: Love's Labour's Lost, directed by NMS, The Bacchae directed by Ashley Kelly-Tata
• 2007: As You Like It, directed by NMS, MacBeth directed by Richard Harden
• 2008: Much Ado About Nothing, directed by NMS, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, directed by David Fuller
• 2009: The Tempest, directed by Jerrod Bogard, Hamlet, directed by NMS, Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Richard Harden
• 2010: Trojan Women, Cyrano, Romeo and Juliet, directed by NMS
• 2011:

Critical Response

In August 2009, The L Magazine voted the HW the “Best Out Door Theatre” in New York City, over even the Public Theatre in Central Park with its A-List Celebrities. Of the compan John Marshall of Huff said, "I saw one of the best Julius Caesar's I have ever seen at the P&G Bar at Columbus & 78th, performed by the amazing Hudson Warehouse Theater Company. Shakespeare in the Park is one thing, but Shakespeare in the Bar is not only better, it's more ... Shakespearean. You're sitting and drinking with people who are no different from anyone else you'd see in a bar, except every so often some of them get up to deliver classic lines and move the story along. It's like witnessing the most literary, spell-binding arguments and bar fights you've ever seen."

Marshall has also said, "Shakespeare in the Park is one thing, but Shakespeare in the Bar is not only better, it's more ... Shakespearean."

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It was his grandfather’s cousin, playwright Edward Martyn, who along with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory of Poole, founded the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Mr. MS has been the Artistic Director of the HW since its inception in the winter of 2004. He directed, and appeared in the company’s inaugural production of The Tempest the following summer. He also directed Twelfth Night: Or What You Will, Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, as well as Hamlet. It was Mr. MS’s concept of a fractured Hamlet, personified in three distinctly separate manifestations of the title role, that was realized in the 2009 season’s innovative production. This production was based on the adaptation by JHAM and NMS that was very well received by critics and audiences alike. Other directorial credits include Hotel America at the Metropolitan and Think Twice with the O.T.C. both of which had the film rights picked up. Mr. MS also directed The Night of January the 16th with the O.T.C. and Finding Mr. Right at the New York Comedy Club. Mr. MS has worked for years as an actor, most recently appearing Off-Broadway as Frank Deluca in The Rise of Dorothy Hale at St. Luke’s Theatre and as Hartrison Brent in Perfect Crime at the Snapple Theatre Center. Also Off Broadway as Angelo in Measure for Measure (Soho Rep), Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (Douglas Fairbanks) and as Antyphilus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (Riverside Shakespeare Co.). He also appeared in New York as Claudius in Hamlet, the Duke of Cornwall in King Lear and as King Magnus in The Apple Cart, under the direction of David Scott all at Theatre Ten-Ten. Other roles include Dr. Lvov in Ivanov at The Mint Theatre, Pentheus in Chuck Mee’s adaptation of The Bacchae, and Lt. Charles in Renee Phillippi’s adaptation of The Adding Machine at 78th Street Theatre Lab. Regionally he has appeared in The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing both at Boston’s Publick Theatre, and as Konstantine in The Seagull at the A.R.T. in Cambridge. He also appeared as Franny in Balm in Gilead, John Polk in Am I Blue, and in the title role of David Mamet’s Edmond, all at the Alley Theatre Company. Television credits include, “Law & Order,” “Another World” and “Spencer: For Hire.” Film credits include “Picture Perfect,” “Carlito’s Way,” “The Clothes Line” and “Boys Night Out”. He received his B.F.A. from Tulane University and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College where he was a graduate fellow. In addition to teaching at Brooklyn College, Mr. MS has taught acting at Marymount Manhattan College, St. Francis College and at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, as well as at his own studio. He is the recipient of the Monroe Lippman Founder’s Award for Acting, and a Best in Boston Award for his performance in the title role of David Mamet’s Edmond.

Managing Director) SLee has extensive experience in television and stage work. She began her television career at WGBH Public TV in Boston, where she worked on the NOVA Science Series for three years. She came to New York City and spent the following twelve years working as a Producer and Writer for Channel 13/WNET. During this time, she traveled to more than 100 cities across the United States scouting locations, interviewing and filming experts in their field. She has worked with international filmmakers, composers, editors, and such narrators as Roy Scheider, Matthew Modine, and William H. Macy. She has worked as a casting director, scouting and auditioning to find potential hosts for her documentaries. She has produced and written dozens of one hour documentaries for PBS, including producing and writing a Special 2-Part series on Urban Wildlife. She won the PBS Communications Award in 1999 as well as a Fellowship from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

As a member of the Writers Guild of America, East, she spearheaded their Writing Workshops program, enlisting writers to become mentors for at-risk teenagers. She partnered WGAE with “826 New York,” a nonprofit writing and tutoring center founded by David Eggers. This joint writing workshop resulted in the students, 15 to 18 year olds, writing radio dramas which were broadcast on public radio WNYE. Susane currently produces the WGAE's popular Screenplay Reading Series for Tom Fontanta, the Executive Producer & Writer of HBO’s “OZ” series and “Homicide: Life on the Street” and his Foundation. Working with casting agents, directors, and actors, she brings to the stage the works of emerging and seasoned writers on the east coast.

Susane has won the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Nonfiction Literature in 2005. She won a Fiction Writing Grant from the Urban Artists Initiative in 2006. She published a memoir in MORE magazine, a national magazine, in February 2010. She is a Lifetime Member of the Writers Guild of America, East and a Member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Shakespeare in a Bar" Series

The "SinB" series brings unrehearsed, brisk, and vibrant readings of these plays into a venue not associated with the performance of theater. It's a thrill to hear these plays read in the rough, intimate setting of a barroom. There's a camaraderie and uncertainty in the air, when actors, who have never worked together before, come together among the patrons of a tavern and bring these classics to life. And where else can you sit next to Caesar after his death and share a pint as you both watch the rest of the story unfold?

Atlantic Theatre Company

Address	336 West 20th Street Manhattan, New York City
Capacity	165
Website
http://www.atlantictheater.org/

The entrance to Stage 2, at 330 West 16th Street

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Portrait of Edward Martyn by Sarah Purser, 1924

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