Handmade, locally-sourced Mask & Puppet Theater rooted in NY’s Hudson River Valley

Arm-of-the-Sea fuses visual storytelling with live music in original works of mask and puppet theater. Founded in 1982 by Marlena Marallo and Patrick Wadden, the company channels the evocative power of the arts as a force for insight & community uplift. Much of their work explores relations between humans and the life-support networks of this blue-ocean planet.

Theater Arts Immersion Camp

July 2024

Arm-of-the-Sea Theater and the Tidewater Center are hosting a two sessions of a 3-day intensive in mask and puppet theater for 8-14 year olds in July 2024! Register and find out more!

Arm-of-the-Sea offers programs, workshops, and performances at their new cultural space in Saugerties NY, The Tidewater Center.

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Arm-of-the-Sea Theater tours to cultural centers, festivals, parks, and schools throughout the Northeast USA.

Check out the upcoming tour schedule:

Scenes from our 2022 show ONE BLUE SKY.

RIPARIAN RHAPSODY, one of our current touring shows about how the Forest Sings to the Stream and the importance of streamside buffer zones.

Check out our promo for Estuary Tales, one of our touring show for 2024

Arm-of-the-Sea Theater is committed to making artistic productions accessible to all residents of New York State and to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and racial justice through its programming and practices.

SPONSORS

Arm-of-the-Sea's 2024 season is made possible by Individual Donors. Thank you for your generosity!
And by the following business sponsor
s: 
Naccarato InsuranceWoodstock Chimes FundStewart's ShopsPrice Chopper's Golub FoundationTown & Country Liquors, Steve Hubbard Real Estate Services,  Kiwanis Club of Saugerties , and Ulster Savings Bank
Grants from: Laura Jane Musser Fund ~ NoVo Foundation ~ Upstate Coalition for a Fair Game ~ Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley ~ Malcolm Gordon Charitable Trust ~ Klock Kingston Foundation ~Villchur Foundation

Public funds from: ~ The County of Ulster's Ulster County Cultural Services and Promotion Fund, administered by Arts Mid-Hudson; ~ The Maurice D. Hinchey Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area; ~ The Hudson River Estuary Program; ~ And the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Governor and the NYS Legislature.