2022 / 2023 SEASON
Dear Hudson Theatre Works Audience,
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THANK YOU for being a critical part of our world...and to ask you for your timely support before our fiscal year closes. This past year has been our 10th season! We are amazed that what we started with "Of Mice and Men" would expand into our own space and that we would be able to continue our commitment to low prices and challenging and entertaining theatre.
And what a year it has been!
The 2022-2023 season was outstanding, with critically-acclaimed productions of women playwrights, including:
The rarely performed "Machinal," by Sophie Treadwell.
Lillian Hellman's masterpiece "The Little Foxes."
The World Premiere of "Shelley," about Mary Shelley and the mystery behind her creative and personal journey leading up to her creation of Frankenstein, by Joanne Hoersch.
We continued our PlayWorks series of new plays, in which the audience becomes part of the process by having a dialogue with the playwrights.
Also, our 10 Minute Festival including a new play by John Patrick Shanley, our holiday show, a workshop of "Son of Zeus," by James Georgiades and our packed post pandemic children's shows.
Please Support Our Work
Hudson Theatre Works is deeply committed to ensuring that our entire community has access to live theatre and our coming arts education classes. Our $25 ticket price means that everyone can experience theatre magic! And our decision to adopt a fully pay-what-you-choose Thursdays, was not made lightly, but rather was truly a leap of faith. Today, the theatre is operating on all cylinders with one exception. We have fallen short of our individual giving goal and donations are significantly below pre-pandemic levels.
Please allow Hudson Theatre Works to continue to fund the important work in our community by making a tax deductible donation. Your support is greatly appreciated.
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Our 2023-2024 will be announced soon.
Thank you, Hudson Theatre Works
MACHINAL BY SOPHIE TREADWELL​
October 2022
“Your skin oughtn’t to curl - ought it - when he just comes near you- ought it? That’s wrong, ain’t it? You don’t get over that, do you - ever, do you or do you?” The city. A woman is restless. A woman is suffocating. A woman is silenced. The woman revolts.
Inspired by the infamous 1927 Snyder/Gray murder trial, this rarely-performed masterpiece portrays the hardened soul of America in the Machine Age. Machinal follows the life of Young Woman who is constrained by a society that favors men and money.
10 MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
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December 2022
Our in- house company, the Forge, will be performing our 10 Minute Play Festival benefit with writers like John Patrick Shanley, Sarah T. Schwab and Richard Vetere.
Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus
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December 2022
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THE LITTLE FOXES BY LILLIAN HELLMAN
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March 2023
Iconic playwright Lillian Hellman's searing tale of family betrayal and corruption ignites the stage in this explosive revival. Ben and Oscar Hubbard stand to earn millions funding an industrialized cotton mill, if they can get their sister Regina’s husband to help finance their scheme. His refusal sets off a violent series of betrayals, which shatters the Hubbard clan’s genteel façade and lays bare their ruthless pursuit of wealth.
SHELLEY BY JOANNE HOERSCH
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MAY 2023
In 1814, 17 year old Mary Godwin, runs off to post-Revolutionary France, with Percy Shelley, one of the greatest of the Romantic poets, seeking adventure and enlightenment. What they find instead, sparks her creative talents in a way she could never have imagined. Hudson Theatre Works continues it’s commitment to producing one new play a year. Coming from the companies workshop, “Shelley,” as in Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 feminist tour-de-force, Machinal, a young woman struggles to find her place in a society that was not made for her. Treadwell uses theatrical expressionism to portray a world that has become impersonal and unfeeling; a world that only has room for those who are willing to submit and conform.
