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In our mission to support a variety of artistic disciplines, RiverArts has recently added theater to our programming. As we strive to bring communities together through art, the medium of theater provides endless opportunities. From performances of commissioned scripts by local playwrights to play readings of new work, RiverArts is building creativity and conversation through theater.

Upcoming Events

River Readings

Saturday, January 27
South Presbyterian Church; 343 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry
7:30PM, doors open at 7:00PM
Themes recommended for ages 16+
$25

Three contemporary playwrights share selected scenes from plays in progress. Experience new scripts on their journey of development read by talented actors, with a discussion to follow. 

Amina Henry Interstate
Interstate tells a story about family and change. In the play, Red, a single flight attendant, takes her children on a cross country road trip. This trip sets in motion events that will either destroy this family or make them stronger.

Peggy Stafford Ambulette: a non emergency vehicle
Ambulette is a memory play that unfolds inside a moving non-emergency vehicle, a beach on the south side of Long Island, and a cemetery where people used to have picnics. It’s a journey of friendship, grief and remembrance.

Melisa Tien Disrupted
In the male-dominated tech arena, two women join forces to create a first-of-its-kind app—one that tracks the menstrual cycle—and form a partnership that is tested to its limits.

Past Events
Kindness Committee

Friday, March 18, 2022 & Saturday, March 19, 2022

 

Set at a concert on a cold winter night, Kindness Committee sneaks us into the minds of seven audience members connected by varying degrees to one another. As the musician performs, each character’s inner world ignites. Some desire, others despise. One mourns, another commits to a life of living without a past. One warns of the limits of “kindness” while another embodies the act of forgiving. All of them peel away layers of their past as they reach for a sustainable present.
 
Kindness Committee delves deep into longings and forebodings, and examines the increasing importance of strengthening our community as our social, political and environmental problems mount.
Six Feet

Saturday, October 17, 2020

 

Doctor, caterer, therapist, lover. It’s been 217 days since the virus changed their lives. At 6 PM (Hawaii time), they’ll meet on ZOOM to discuss a tragic event that connects them all. But will this call tear them apart
 
RiverArts has commissioned an original, innovative play to be performed live on ZOOM. Written and directed by Melanie Hoopes (Netflix’s BloodlineHere’s the Thing hosted by Alec Baldwin), SIX FEET is full of tension, intimacy, and a cathartic, biting clarity. It’s a play about confronting emotions that are made more raw, volatile, and intense the more they are confined. It shows us what happens when we rely on flat, 2D interactions to communicate things that are so much bigger than the spaces we inhabit.

CONTACT US

RiverArts
P.O. Box 60
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
(914) 412-5120
info@riverarts.org