The Project

HVS’s mission is to engage the widest possible audience in a theatrical celebration of our shared humanity, and our new home will be a place of gathering and belonging, with the theater at its center.

Improved facilities will support our commitment to artistic excellence, with a permanent open-air theater and backstage spaces to support it, as well as on-site artist lodging to ensure HVS is a place where the country’s best talent continually wants to work.

The social isolation that we experienced during the pandemic must now be countered with community, and with artistic inspiration. Our expansive new campus will be an immersive arts destination and will be one of the few significant theaters constructed in the years immediately following the pandemic.

Our ambition is to create one of the most extraordinary open-air theaters in the world, in one of the most beautiful and important landscapes in America, and we want this experience to be available to everyone. For that reason, we are designing the campus and its structures as models of inclusivity and accessibility, with an extensive institutional commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

All buildings will be fully accessible and ADA compliant, and the rolling parkland on the property will be available for passive uses such as walking and biking, as we transition a golf course to an open green space offered as an amenity to the public.