The Rock Experience: Ten Songs and Stories the Shaped Rock & Roll

Friday, September 26, 2025 
7PM; Doors at 6PM

​Featuring many of the top songs and superstar bands that shaped rock; 'Rock Royalty' is a fascinating new show that explores Rock 'N' Roll with incredible stories, a full scale multimedia experience, and of course a live all-star band to bring it all to life. Includes The team that produced  Rock 101 two years ago has now created this new show featuring ten entirely different iconic rock songs. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Supremes, U2, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Eagles, The Who, Jimi Hendrix and more.  

With stunning visuals and unforgettable performances, this brand new immersive evening will debut (first time ever!) on Friday, September 26th in rock's most iconic city - Woodstock NY.  
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Featured Songs include:  She Loves You, You Can't Hurry Love, Gimme Shelter, All Along the Watchtower, Hotel California, The Chain, Stairway to Heaven, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Comfortably Numb, Won’t Get Fooled Again  - and a few surprises!

​Length: 2 hours

​TICKET PRICING:

All Tickets are General Admission

$45 General

(each ticket reflects a $5 handling and platform charge; no refunds or exchanges; all sales are final) 

During the late 1950s and into the 60s, the Woodstock Playhouse directors instituted Saturday morning children's productions & concerts as well as midnight concerts featuring such artists as Tom Paxton, Peter Yarrow, Tim Hardin, Pete Seeger, Happy and Artie Traum, Billy Faire, and Jack Elliot. The Band, including Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Jaime Robbie Robertson, would record their album Stage Fright at the Woodstock Playhouse with Todd Rundgren serving as sound engineer. As the 1960s evolved and Woodstock found itself at the center of a cultural revolution, the Playhouse was host to the final concert in a series of performances known as the Sound-Outs in 1968. Produced by John “Jocko” Moffitt and generally perceived as a precursor concert to the Woodstock Festival held in Bethel a year later, the Playhouse concert featured Richie Havens, with additional performances by Jerry Moore, Don Preston, Major Wiley and Bunky and Jake. 

Throughout the 60s and 70s, legendary musicians and bands played at the Woodstock Playhouse, including Arlo Guthrie, Van Morrison, Orleans, Full Moon, Sonia Malkine, John Hammond, Holy Moses, Dave Van Ronk, Levon and The Band, The Montgomeries, Geoff and Maria Muldaur, Jim Rooney and Bill Keith, and after the burning and rebuilding of the Woodstock Playhouse: Leon Russell, Cindy Cashdollar, Jacke DeJohnette, Sonny Rollins, Peter Yarrow, Bethany and Rufus Cappadocia, John Sebastian, Natalie Merchant, Larry Campbell, David Bromberg, Richie Havens, Noel Paul Stookey, The Indigo Girls, Leon Russell, Well Strung, all of the amazing Headliners at the annual String Sampler Concert, and so many more. 

Additionally, the Woodstock Playhouse, established in 1938 by a member of one of Woodstock's Oldest Families, became a central hub for the launching of major careers on Broadway and in film and television.