Announcing Our 2024 Season
Supporting theater-makers in developing new work is a highlight for us each year. In 2024, we deepen that commitment through our burgeoning residency program, Summer Play Lab, which connects visionary creators and their projects with you through showings, workshops, and first-look productions. Two new exciting collaborations–with NYC’s The Civilians and Soho Think Tank–are also making it possible for us to expand our offerings this season. With so much innovative performance on tap, we hope that you’ll join us often this season!
Jeffrey Mousseau & Paul Ricciardi, Directors
Get ahead of the crowd! Save 15% on your ticket purchase for three or more events in our season lineup with our exclusive early bird discount. This offer is valid until Wednesday, May 1st. Discount applied automatically at checkout.
SPRING OPEN HOUSE
Saturday, June 1st, 3-5pm
at Ancram Center for the Arts
Join your friends, neighbors, and the Ancram Center team to kick-off the 2024 season at this free, family-friendly get-together.
SUMMER PLAY LAB 1: LOCAL ARTISTS
Sunday, June 16th at 4:00pm
at Ancram Center for the Arts
Summer Play Lab residencies support artists creating bold new performance and feature public work-in-progress showings, free community workshops and discussions. For the June edition, we are proud to showcase an artist or artistic team from the region.
REAL PEOPLE REAL STORIES
Saturday, June 29th at 7:30pm
at The Hilltop Barn at Roeliff Jansen Park
Everyone has a story to tell. With each edition of Real People, residents share stories with the community.
SUMMER PLAY LAB: Kate Douglas, Matthew Dean Marsh, and Raina Sokolov-GonzalEZ
Sunday, July 7th at 4:00pm
at Ancram Center for the Arts
Oscillating between collective and personal voices, Centuries is an immersive concert event that celebrates humanity and the willingness to face the unknown in a changing world.
CRYSTAL RADIO SESSIONS
Saturday, July 13th at 7:30pm
at Ancram Center for the Arts
Actors bring to life short stories in this series curated by Hudson Valley writer Ashley Mayne.
Rizo: hOME
Saturday, July 20th at 7:30pm
at The Circa 1799 Barn
Rizo uses her trademark blend of songs, stories, performance art, comedy and glamor to explore the nature of home and how it informs our identity. Does where you hang your hat define who you are or how you think about yourself?
SUMMER PLAY LAB: Martha Redbone, with AARON WHITBY
Sunday, August 4th at 4:00pm
at Ancram Center for the Arts
in collaboration with The Civilians, NYC
This music theatre project will be created from extensive interviews with multigenerational Native American people from communities across the country.
Constellations
By Nick Payne
August 16th - 25th
Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30p
Sundays at 3p
at Ancram Center for the Arts
CONSTELLATIONS intertwines love, fate, and quantum mechanics as Marianne and Roland's relationship shifts across parallel universes.
Downtown Upstate
September 7th - 15th
Saturdays at 7:30p, Sundays at 2p
at Ancram Center for the Arts
The first annual Downtown Upstate festival, produced by Soho Think Tank, brings the best of NYC downtown theatre artists to the Hudson Valley.
Centuries
October 25th - November 3rd
Fridays and Saturdays at 7p, Sundays at 3p
at Ancram Center for the Arts
Following their Summer Play Lab residency, collaborators Kate Douglas, Matthew Dean Marsh, and Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez return to Ancram to stage the world premiere of Centuries, an immersive concert event celebrating humanity and the willingness to face the unknown in a changing world.
Real People Real Stories: Taconic Hills Edition
Saturday, November 9th at 2:00pm
at Ancram Center for the Arts
4th, 5th and 6th graders from Taconic Hills Elementary share their often hilarious, frequently touching, and always authentic tales from the AOH stage.
Real People Real Stories
Sunday, November 17th at 3:00pm
at Ancram Center for the Arts
AOH’s community storytelling program, presented twice a year, features residents from the region crafting and telling personal narratives.
Get ahead of the crowd! Save 15% on your ticket purchase for three or more events in our season lineup with our exclusive early bird discount. This offer is valid until Wednesday, May 1st.
Ancram Center's 2024 season is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.