The Forestburgh Playhouse is the oldest continuously operating summer theater, in New York State, 7 mi (11 km) south of Monticello.

[1] One of a handful of small summer theaters left in the country.

The 292-seat theater operates during the summers only, from mid-June through Labor Day.

On a reader's choice article, the Times Herald-Record named the playhouse, one of the Top Ten Attractions, in the Hudson Valley for 2009.

[2] Every year the playhouse hires a company of more than 50, including actors (Equity, to play the leading roles in each show and non-Equity who form the Resident Acting Company who perform, in all main stage musicals, as well as children's theatre (YAFF) and cabaret), Equity stage manager for full season, directors, musicians, designers and technicians.