Photo Coverage: Vassar & NY Stage and Film Preps for 32 Annual Powerhouse Season!
By: Jennifer Broski Jun. 07, 2016
Vassar & New York Stage and Film will soon present its 32nd Powerhouse Season, which runs June 24 to July 31 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, including full productions of new plays, workshop presentations of new plays and musicals, and readings of other works in progress, among other developmental programming. Past highlights from this celebrated program include the recent Tony nominees Hamilton, Bright Star, and The Humans.
A musical workshop of Another Word for Beauty, with book by Academy Award nominee José Rivera, music and lyrics by Grammy winner Héctor Buitrago, and direction by Steven Cosson, will receive its East Coast premiere following an acclaimed world premiere engagement at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. Set during a beauty pageant at Colombia's notorious Buen Pastor prison, this new musical inspired by true stories is a soulful portrait of women who fight to transcend their dire circumstances.
Academy Award, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley will return to Powerhouse with a reading of his latest comedy The Portuguese Kid. The Readings Series will now also feature Stephen Belber's We Are Among Us, Jocelyn Bioh's Nollywood Dreams, Dan LeFranc's Rancho Viejo, Stephen Nathan's The Ways of Necessity, and Tim Blake Nelson's Socrates,
Two "Inside Look" workshops will include the new play Fingersmith by Alexa Junge("Friends", "The West Wing"), an adaptation of Sarah Waters' novel (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize) about a female pickpocket set in squalid and sexy Victorian England, with direction by Bill Rauch; and the return of Joanna Murray-Smith to Powerhouse, with her newest play Fury, with direction by Mark Brokaw.
Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski
Mark Linn-Baker, Johanna Pfaelzer, Thomas Pearson
Jose Rivera
Brandon Michael Hull, Samantha Soule, Alfredo Narciso, Lucy Thurber, Jackson Gay, Howard Overshown
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