ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Book by Charles Turner
Music and Lyrics by Steve Moore
Adapted from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Theatre For Young Audiences

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July 11th and July 18th

Saturdays at 2:00pm

 ​Come spend a dreamy afternoon chasing a rabbit whose heart is beating much too fast and in the company of bizarre and challenging characters conversing in "pretzel-logic". Included in the verbacious collection of sleep-induced characters are the Mad Hatter, March Hare, Cheshire Cat, Duck, Dodo, Gryphon, Mock Turtle, Caterpillar, Tweedle-Dum & Tweedle-Dee, Cook, Duchess (not to be confused with the County of Similar Title,) Dormouse, Chatty Playing Cards, the ineffectual King of Hearts...and, of course, the top-score of Her Royal Majesty The Omnipresent Queen of Hearts! 

Join your hostess and conjuror of regrettable dreams, Alice as she tumbles, floats and falls into every imaginable predicament in Wonderland. Then watch her fearless heart triumphantly turn the whole deck of Wonderland jabberers on their heads as she finds her voice! 

​​This engaging musicalization of the well-known classic has toured with enormous success and has grown in popularity since its publication when it was first presented at El Camino College in Torrance, California, on May 30, 1975; directed by Dorothy La Spina.

​Author Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. Some of Alice's nonsensical wonderland logic reflects his published work on mathematical logic. 

Join us for this outstanding performance during our 2026 Woodstock Playhouse Summer Theatre Festival Season as we celebrate the 88th season of the iconic Woodstock Playhouse; originally established in 1938 by Robert Elwyn, a fifth-generation Woodstock Resident, Broadway/Film professional director/actor and member of one of Woodstock's oldest families...and during this 16th anniversary season of leadership by the current Woodstock Playhouse team.

​This performance is brought to the stage of the iconic Woodstock Playhouse featuring the Woodstock Playhouse Summer Theatre Cast 2026, a regional company of professional performers widely acclaimed for some of the finest performances in our NY & Tri-State region at one of the most iconic theatrical sites in the Hudson Valley. They are joined by the Youth Cast of the New York Conservatory for the Arts of Hurley - the Official Performing Arts Educational Center of the Woodstock Playhouse.

​Director: Douglas Farrell

Resident Music Director: Robert J. Tomasulo

Resident Lighting Designer: Michael Gugliotti, Jr.

Resident Sound Designer: Steve Maffia

Resident Costume Designer: Diane Stein

Length of Performance: 75 minutes with no intermission 

​TICKET PRICING:

• ​$16 for Children & Senior Citizen
• ​$19 for Adults

​Each ticket price already includes a $4 handling/convenience charge; All seating is Reserved Seating, and all sales are final; no refunds nor exchanges.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
www.concordtheatricals.com

The Woodstock Playhouse, established in 1938 as a rural extension of Broadway and Summer Theater by a member of one of Woodstock's Oldest Families, became a central hub for the launching of major careers on Broadway and in film and television - including Robert Hutton, Larry Hagman, Lee Marvin, Diane Keaton, Chevy Chase, Andrea Martin, Karl Malden, Kitty Kelly, Elissa Landi, Judd Hirsch, Anne Meara, Dick Van Patten and Estelle Parsons to name just a few - as it continues to do today.

During the late 1950s and into the 60s, the Woodstock Playhouse directors instituted Saturday morning children's productions & concerts as well as midnight concerts featuring such artists as Tom Paxton, Peter Yarrow, Tim Hardin, Pete Seeger, Happy and Artie Traum, Billy Faire, and Jack Elliot. The Band, including Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Jaime Robbie Robertson, would record their album Stage Fright at the Woodstock Playhouse with Todd Rundgren serving as sound engineer. As the 1960s evolved and Woodstock found itself at the center of a cultural revolution, the Playhouse was host to the final concert in a series of performances known as the Sound-Outs in 1968. Produced by John “Jocko” Moffitt and generally perceived as a precursor concert to the Woodstock Festival held in Bethel a year later, the Playhouse concert featured Richie Havens, with additional performances by Jerry Moore, Don Preston, Major Wiley and Bunky and Jake. 

Throughout the 60s and 70s, legendary musicians and bands played at the Woodstock Playhouse, including Arlo Guthrie, Van Morrison, Orleans, Full Moon, Sonia Malkine, John Hammond, Holy Moses, Dave Van Ronk, Levon and The Band, The Montgomeries, Geoff and Maria Muldaur, Jim Rooney and Bill Keith, and after the burning and rebuilding of the Woodstock Playhouse: Leon Russell, Cindy Cashdollar, Jacke DeJohnette, Sonny Rollins, Peter Yarrow, Bethany and Rufus Cappadocia, John Sebastian, Natalie Merchant, Larry Campbell, David Bromberg, Richie Havens, Noel Paul Stookey, The Indigo Girls, Leon Russell, Well Strung, all of the amazing Headliners at the annual String Sampler Concert, and so many more. 

A more detailed history of the Woodstock Playhouse can be enjoyed by viewing the History Wall and memorabilia when visiting the Woodstock Playhouse and by viewing our history page online at  https://www.woodstockplayhouse.org/history-of-the-woodstock-playhouse where you can also read about and purchase tickets for our other upcoming events.