The Forestburgh Playhouse celebrated its landmark 80th Anniversary Season in 2026, and it’s known as the oldest operating professional summer theater in New York. It played through the glory days of the Catskills resort era, when New York City families summered in the mountains and needed something to do after dark. It has played through the quiet years that followed. And it kept playing in 2020, when nearly every stage in the country went dark.

Eighty seasons and more than 250 productions later, the curtain is still going up.