River Rep’s year-end funding drive is underway!
The 2025 season was filled with fantastical creatures and sublime humor, as River Rep premiered the hit fantasy classic The Neverending Story - the show The River Reporter called “breathtaking … a magical treat” - and the “deliriously funny” (NY TImes) comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
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As an artist-driven, community-supported non-profit, River Rep has become a vibrant and essential part of the Sullivan Catskills arts scene. Now we need your help to sustain River Rep's work into 2026, and beyond! Make a tax-deductible contribution through our donation page and help us reach our $5,000 funding goal by December 31 - no donation is too big or too small!
Inspired by the famous 1897 editorial that became a holiday staple, River Rep will perform an adaptation of the classic newspaper column
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
at Dickens on the Delaware
Saturday, Dec 13th at 12 & 1pm
inside the Callicoon Depot in Downtown Callicoon
Featuring Thomas Cambridge, Christopher Parsons, Christopher Peditto and Elaine Schumacher. Directed by Arthur Aulisi and Christopher Peditto.
FREE OF CHARGE
River Rep Jr.
Winter Workshop
Production starts
Jan 24 — April 4
Attention young performers! If you’re between the ages of 8-18 and interested in acting and stagecraft, River Rep Jr. is for you! Learn about performance and production design, working with theater professionals on a full-scale production.
River Rep closed its 2025 season with Christopher Durang’s sublime comedy, VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE — an unforgettable night of absurdist amusement, inspired by characters and themes of Anton Chekhov.
Jonathan Charles Fox of The River Reporter called the show "a funny, funny play that is absolutely entertaining ... the audience delighted in the performances.”
River Rep’s 2025 Season opened with the beloved fantasy classic The Neverending Story, which follows a lonely young boy with a love of books, who becomes drawn into a timeless world of fabulous creatures — a world only he can save from certain destruction
“Breathtaking … an extremely ambitious magical treat not to be missed, and it’s destined to be a memorable hit with the younger set as well as adults.” — Jonathan Charles Fox, The River Reporter
Tom Candela talks with River Rep artistic directors Christopher Peditto and Arthur Aulisi about The Neverending Story, and more!
Listen to the Catskill Public Radio podcast.
The Thanksgiving Play serves up the laughs
Larissa’s FastHorse’s savagely funny satire left audiences with a smorgasbord of things to talk about!
‘Art’ is in the eye of the beholder
Yasmina Reza’s witty contemporay classic delighted audiences in River Rep’s Season 2024 opener.
“Both plays are incredibly well crafted, both actors superbly suited to their roles, and both are so well staged and directed.”
Read Jonathan Charles Fox’s review of Sea Wall & The Catastrophist in The River Reporter
Audacious programming that engages and entertains
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