GARRISON- The $33 million Samuel Scripps Theater Center — the new home of Hudson Valley Shakespeare — opens today in Garrison.
The project, which includes a LEED certified theater and ecological land restoration, is supported by a combined $15.25 million investment from the New York State Council on the Arts, Empire State Development, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and the New York State Education Department.
An additional $250,000 investment combined from Assemblymember Dana Levenberg, former Assemblymember Sandra Galef and State Senator Peter Harckham contributed to the overall multi-million-dollar state investment in the world class arts venue.
Designed by architecture and urban design practice Studio Gang, the structure is the first public purpose-built LEED Platinum theater in the United States. The gently curved, timber-framed grid shell improves year-round functionality while evolving the theater company’s tradition of immersive performances, opening directly onto the revitalized landscape and framing views of the highlands along the Hudson River.
While the campus opens to the public today, it officially will reopen this summer with William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” and “King Lear.”
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