I Performed at Woodstock! The Tie-Dyed Diaries: Missing Woodstock stories & more!

I’m S.Rachel Lovey & I performed at Woodstock with the critically acclaimed & EARTHLIGHT Theater troupe and during it's successful 2 year Off-Broadway run & national tour. We are proudly featured in the Directors Cut of the original Woodstock film yet litigiously lampooned in Ang Lee's 2009 delusional movie "Taking Woodstock."" EARTHLIGHT is primarily responsible for connecting the original Woodstock Festival with Max Yasgur's farm.

Earthlight Exposed; A Brief Bio

Earthlight Theatre, was the only theatre troupe to perform at Woodstock. Leaving its Mafia store front workshop, they transformed a barn into a theatre in Whitelake, N.Y. The producer Allan Mann having heard the Woodstock Festival had lost its venue hooked up the powers that be to Max Yasgurs farm & with co-founder Jane Richardson brought Swami Satchidanande to the festival. With the money we were paid we bought a bus, did a year of nat'l touring and ended up off Broadway to rave reviews "Brilliant......magnificent simplicity." Hollywood Reporter. I was fortunate to be part of this "metaphysical and transformational theatre." personal history of Woodstock. A. Mann

S. Rachel Lovey (blog author/original Earthlight member) is an acclaimed comic-actor-speaker, honored and roasted at The Friar's Club, Featured on FOX Television for her long running live show 'Women in Comedy Who Don't Have a Series Yet' at the Comedy Store, which was influential in the development of female comics such as Chelsea Handler and Retta. Also featured on a CBS Woodstock special celebrating Woodstock's 40th anniversary, Lovey has also opened for B.B. King, Big Bad Voodoo Daddies, and others. Widely associated with experimental comedy formats e.g. motivational humor and comedy traffic school. To quote one of the greats; "Rachel's Comedy is like jazz, and boy do I like jazz".- Rodney Dangerfield.

I Performed at Woodstock! The Tie-Dyed Diaries: Missing Woodstock stories & more!

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Thursday, August 6, 2026

Allan Mann, Originator of EARTHLIGHT

Still shot from Director's cut of the original Woodstock Film, I'm in the middle!