The Oscar Hammerstein Museum & Theatre Education Center

09/10/2026

Great reviews for “Oscar Hammerstein, The Journey of Highland Farm,” presented by our board member, Julie Flack! If you would like to schedule this presentation for your group or organization visit https://www.hammersteinmuseum.org/community-presentations

09/09/2026

🌎🎭 The Hammerstein Young Playwrights Festival has gone INTERNATIONAL! 🎭🌎

Young playwrights around the world are invited to share their stories with the 2026 International Young Playwrights Festival!

If you’re currently in grades 9–12, now is your chance to submit your original one-act script. Your play could be selected for a staged reading in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, performed by theatre professionals.

✨ Up to four plays will be selected for presentation.
🎭 Selected plays will be read by theatre professionals at a staged reading.
🗓️ Submission deadline: January 18, 2027

Your story deserves a stage. Write it. Submit it. Let the world read it.
👉 Info & submission link: hammersteinmuseum.org/young-playwrights

09/08/2026

🎟️ LIMITED TICKETS REMAINING!

There’s just ONE MORE WEEK to get your tickets to Something Wonderful, the Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center’s 2026 Gala!

Join us October 4 at the beautiful Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm for an unforgettable evening featuring Broadway icon Liz Callaway, an elegant three-course dinner, and an exciting auction.

Don’t miss this special night celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II’s legacy and supporting the future of the Hammerstein Museum. ✨

👉 Get your tickets today: hammersteinmuseum.org/gala2026

09/05/2026

Meet our 2026 Hammerstein International Youth Solo Contest winners!

Watch the video and enjoy their talents at the link below:
https://youtu.be/PVX3fF_NznQ?si=YD60w3agIbDhYy7V

08/25/2026

Just 2 more days to make your reservation if you wish to enjoy dinner with “Oscar Hammerstein, The Journey of Highland Farm" presented by our board member, Julie Flack. Details below...

Thursday, August 27th 5PM is the last day to make your dinner reservation!

Our next Perkasie Historical Society dinner meeting presentation will be “Oscar Hammerstein, The Journey of Highland Farm" presented by Julie Flack on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.

Take a journey through Oscar Hammerstein II’s life, family, musical works, life-long positivity, and humanitarianism. Learn how this lyricist and librettist changed musical theatre in both his writing and his mentorship to young Stephen Sondheim. Hear the story of Highland Farm, an almost two-hundred-year-old farm where ​Oscar lived with his wife Dorothy from 1940 to 1960 in Doylestown.

If you are planning to join us for dinner, reservations are required.

The Perkasie Historical Society has regular dinner meetings featuring a speaker or program. Meetings are held at 6:30 pm at the St. Stephen's UCC, 110 N. 6th Street, Perkasie, Pennsylvania.
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Dinners are $15, payable at the door. To better serve our members and guests, reservations for dinner meetings are required. Reservations are necessary to be made by 5PM Thursday August 27, 2026.

Please call Pat Gahman (215) 257-9624 to reserve your seat.
If the need arises, please be considerate and cancel your dinner reservation before 5PM.

Image: Emma Lee/WHYY

08/21/2026

Here's another opportunity to learn about Oscar Hammerstein II, his impact on musical theatre, and life in Bucks County! Hope you can join us! Reservations required... details below.

Our next Perkasie Historical Society meeting presentation will be “Oscar Hammerstein, The Journey of Highland Farm" presented by Julie Flack on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.

Take a journey through Oscar Hammerstein II’s life, family, musical works, life-long positivity, and humanitarianism. Learn how this lyricist and librettist changed musical theatre in both his writing and his mentorship to young Stephen Sondheim. Hear the story of Highland Farm, an almost two-hundred-year-old farm where ​Oscar lived with his wife Dorothy from 1940 to 1960 in Doylestown.

If you are planning to join us for dinner, reservations are required.

The Perkasie Historical Society has regular dinner meetings featuring a speaker or program. Meetings are held at 6:30 pm at the St. Stephen's UCC, 110 N. 6th Street, Perkasie, Pennsylvania.
​​​
Dinners are $15, payable at the door. To better serve our members and guests, reservations for dinner meetings are required. Reservations are necessary to be made by 5PM Thursday August 27, 2026.

Please call Pat Gahman (215) 257-9624 to reserve your seat.
If the need arises, please be considerate and cancel your dinner reservation before 5PM.

Image: Emma Lee/WHYY

08/17/2026

🎭 Discover the Story of Oscar Hammerstein II!
Join the Oscar Hammerstein Museum & Theatre Education Center for a special presentation of The Journey of Highland Farm at the Monroe Township Public Library in Monroe Township, NJ on Sunday, September 27.

Learn about Oscar Hammerstein II’s life and legacy, his remarkable contributions to American musical theatre, and his years at Highland Farm in Bucks County.

📍 Monroe Township Library
📅 Sunday, September 27
🎟️ Free program — registration required!
Register at http://monroetwplibrary.org/calendar or call 732-521-5000.

We hope to see you there!

07/23/2026

We're deeply grateful to Rep. Tim Brennan and Sen. Steve Santarsiero for their steadfast support of the Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center.

Their commitment to preserving Highland Farm and expanding arts education is helping ensure that Oscar Hammerstein II's legacy continues to inspire future generations of artists, students, and visitors.
Thank you for championing this important project and for believing in the power of history, education, and the arts. We look forward to continuing this journey together!

🎶Oh, what a beautiful mornin’, oh, what a beautiful day! I got a beautiful feelin,’ about this state funding that’s coming our way!🎶

I’m proud to support an investment that is so momentous and that will help bring even more folks here to enjoy Bucks County. Oscar Hammerstein’s work has touched generations of Americans and inspired them to live with hope, purpose and decency. It’s fitting that the place where he spent so much of his life will become a space where people can learn about his legacy and be inspired by it.

The Oscar Hammerstein Museum & Theatre Education Center has such a unique artistic and cultural value for our nation and the Doylestown area!

Find out more on my website: https://www.pahouse.com/brennan/inthenews/newsrelease/?id=144479

UPDATED 7/22 to add this story from BroadwayWorld! https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Hammerstein-Museum-Awarded-1-Million-PA-State-Grant-for-Highland-Farm-Redevelopment-20260720

07/22/2026

What happens when young playwrights gather in the very room where Stephen Sondheim learned from Oscar Hammerstein II?

Hammerstein Museum Board member and educator Jim DeVivo Ph.D. reflects on our first-ever Playwriting Workshop at Highland Farm in a moving new Substack article. He shares how Oscar's legacy of honest mentorship—treating young artists as serious creators—continues to inspire the next generation of storytellers.

As Jim writes, "It struck me... that young artists of all genres don't have enough opportunity to create a work, share it, and talk about it seriously with someone who's paying real attention."

We're grateful to Jim for carrying forward the tradition that began at Highland Farm more than 80 years ago and to the talented young writers who joined us for this special day.

📖 Read Jim's reflections here: https://takingthemseriously.substack.com/p/write-a-play-put-it-up

07/20/2026

Word about our $1 million PA State grant is getting around Broadway!🎭 Read the press release in the link below:

The Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center received a $1 million RACP grant from Pennsylvania to support redevelopment of Highland Farm in Bucks County, marking the museum's third such state award.