Woodshill, Inc

The Theater at Woodshill and Unity Hall are thrilled to announce our coming presentation of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, from February 5-8, 2025. 

• $30 general admission
• $25 for Unity Hall members

SAVE THE BARN

The Rose Theater is housed in a beautiful barn built in 1949-50 by Willis and Florence Wilcox. This beautiful round-roof style structure provides the summer home for The Theater at Woodshill. 

Since our inception in 2016, Woodshill has produced three of Shakespeare's classic plays:

Much Ado About Nothing (2016)
As You Like It (2018)  
Hamlet (2019) 

This 2020 season we had been slated to produce a timeless festive comedy, Twelfth Night, but due to the COVID pandemic shutdown, we are using our energies instead on a series of online content, including The Walled Garden Series, and a fully-audio production of Twelfth Night, slated for later this year. 

In the meantime, we are going to take advantage of this down year to make a series of important strides to the long-term success and development of the infrastructure of The Rose Theater. 
 
The first step in preserving the barn is getting proper architectural drawings done: we intend to use these drawings as the basis for a multi-year plan to develop The Rose Theater into a top-tier facility, while maintaining is rustic integrity and connection to the land. And yes, that means building, among other important amenities for our actors (such as *actual* dressing rooms), proper, ADA-approved, handicap-accessible restroom facilities for our audiences.

It's time to put a comprehensive plan together to SAVE THE BARN and these drawings are the first step!

A little about us...

THE THEATER AT WOODSHILL
The Theater at Woodshill  is a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization whose mission is to create a permanent home for the works of William Shakespeare on a beautiful farm in Central New York. We believe that upstate communities deserve local, affordable access to world-class productions of Shakespeare and other great classical dramatists. To achieve this goal we have built company of actors, directors, designers, producers, and dramaturgs, professional and non-professional alike, working in collaboration. We call this combined cultural community CNY + NYC.
 
Along with our commitment to the works of Shakespeare, The Theater at Woodshill is focused on providing educational opportunities for its community through workshops in acting, design, production, and dramaturgy. We are devoted to performing the Bard’s great works in repertory with other classics of the stage, both ancient and modern alike.

In August 2020 The Theater at Woodshill  will produce Shakespeare's "most perfect" festive comedy: 

TWELFTH NIGHT, OR, WHAT YOU WILL
by William Shakespeare

August 2020 | Theater at Woodshill | 9755 Sessions Road, Sauquoit, NY. Dates and times to be released later in year.

TWELFTH NIGHT is the third and final installment of our three-season TURN OF THE CENTURY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (see below). This floridly romantic, musically-ornate, downright zany festive comedy was considered by eminent Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom to be the Bard's "funniest play." Featuring a cross-dressing heroine and a cross-gartered villain, TWELFTH NIGHT is a rousing and delightful romp through seasons of mourning and merriment! 







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THE THEATER AT WOODSHILL
The Theater at Woodshill  is a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization whose mission is to create a permanent home for the works of William Shakespeare on a beautiful farm in Central New York. We believe that upstate communities deserve local, affordable access to world-class productions of Shakespeare and other great classical dramatists. To achieve this goal we have built company of actors, directors, designers, producers, and dramaturgs, professional and non-professional alike, working in collaboration. We call this combined cultural community CNY + NYC.
 
Along with our commitment to the works of Shakespeare, The Theater at Woodshill is focused on providing educational opportunities for its community through workshops in acting, design, production, and dramaturgy. We are devoted to performing the Bard’s great works in repertory with other classics of the stage, both ancient and modern alike.

TURN OF THE CENTURY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
2018: AS YOU LIKE IT (1599)
2019: HAMLET (1600)
2020: TWELFTH NIGHT (1601)


Watch a clip from the Theater at Woodshill's 2019 run of HAMLET:

RESERVE SEATS TODAY: Hamlet Reservations 


In August 2019 The Theater at Woodshill  will produce the world's most-exalted play: 

THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK
by William Shakespeare

August 17-18th, 20-25th, 2019 | Theater at Woodshill | 9755 Sessions Road, Sauquoit, NY.

HAMLET is the second installment of our three-season TURN OF THE CENTURY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (see below). This ecstatic, sublime, terrifying revenge drama pushes tragic theater to the brink of what is possible.  A vicious meditation on vengeance and political decay, HAMLET brings a terrible reckoning to the state of Denmark, a proxy for a state of decadence and abasement.

On the heels of two fantastic summers, this year we're producing a full week of off-script performances .

FROM HAMLET:
"To be, or not to be, that is the question." 
-Hamlet

"This above all: to thine own self be true."  
-Polonius

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." 
-Marcellus

"O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space."
-Hamlet

WHERE THE FUNDS ARE GOING
-Cast & crew costs: 3 weeks time for 8-10 professional theater and television actors from New York City (~$10,000)
-Room and board (~$4,500)

Curtain call from As You Like It (2018)

THE THEATER AT WOODSHILL
The Theater at Woodshill  is a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization whose mission is to create a permanent home for the works of William Shakespeare on a beautiful farm in Central New York. We believe that upstate communities deserve local, affordable access to world-class productions of Shakespeare and other great classical dramatists. To achieve this goal we have built company of actors, directors, designers, producers, and dramaturgs, professional and non-professional alike, working in collaboration. We call this combined cultural community CNY + NYC.
 
Along with our commitment to the works of Shakespeare, The Theater at Woodshill is focused on providing educational opportunities for its community through workshops in acting, design, production, and dramaturgy. We are devoted to performing the Bard’s great works in repertory with other classics of the stage, both ancient and modern alike.

TURN OF THE CENTURY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
2018: AS YOU LIKE IT (1599)
2019: HAMLET (1600)
2020: TWELFTH NIGHT (1601)