New York Stage and Film announces Powerhouse Season

4/8/2014 12:10pm


New York Stage and Film and Vassar College, this summer celebrating the 30th year of their Powerhouse Theater collaboration, has announced the three new works that will be featured on the Mainstage during the 2014 Powerhouse Theater Season, running from June 20 to July 27 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.  The three mainstage productions of the 30th Powerhouse Theater Season are: THE BABYLON LINE (June 25-July 6) by Richard Greenberg, Directed by Terry Kinney. 1967.  A 38-year-old writer from bohemian Greenwich Village commutes to Levittown, Long Island to teach an adult-education Creative Writing class.  He finds anything but the cookie-cutter lives he expected in this straight-laced community, as his students come to discover the power of storytelling to transform their lives. And one special student – a kindred spirit? or something more? – reawakens him to his own artistic impulses.  IN YOUR ARMS (July 5-13) directed and Choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, Music by Stephen Flaherty, Vignettes written by Douglas Carter Beane, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Carrie Fisher, David Henry Hwang, Rajiv Joseph, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, Lynn Nottage, & Alfred Uhry. "In Your Arms" features ten dance vignettes that each tell a story without words of a pair of lovers, constituting an evening of storytelling, dance and music with a cast of more than 20 performers. THE LISTENER (July 16-27), Written and Directed by John Patrick Shanley. "The Listener" is a mystery which unfolds against an international backdrop. The main character, a female insurance investigator, finds herself battling wits with a formidable Danish widow.  Disturbing, funny, deadly serious, sexy, like a Hitchcock film with a modernist edge. Press contact: O&M Co (695-7400)...