About Us

The Philipstown Depot Theatre was founded in 1996 by a handful of visionary residents eager to establish a permanent home for the performing arts in their Hudson Valley community. Built on the legacy of our predecessors, the Hand to Mouth Players, the Depot Theatre is now a professionally run not-for-profit administered in partnership with the Philipstown Recreation Department.

The building in which we are housed opened at Garrison's Landing in 1893. A granite rectangle with high ceilings, generous eaves and a curved southern end, the Depot sits on the eastern bank of the Hudson, directly across the river from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. William H. LaDue, a contractor with several area depots to his credit—Cold Spring and Bronxville, among others—designed the building. It served its original purpose, facilitating train travel to, from and through the Hudson Highlands, until the early 1960s, though commuters continued to shelter beneath its eaves for years. Metro-North eventually built a new platform just down the line. One catches a train there and a show here.