Vassar & NY Stage and Film announce 2016 Powerhouse Season

4/14/2016 12:17pm


Vassar & New York Stage and Film has announced some of the projects tapped for the upcoming 32nd Powerhouse Season, the annual summer season which stages full productions of new plays, workshop presentations of new plays and musicals, and readings of other works in progress, among other developmental programming.  Running June 24 to July 31 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, the upcoming season will be headlined by two fully-staged productions of new plays written and directed by women: TRANSFERS (June 30 – July 10) written by Lucy Thurber and directed by Jackson Gay, and THE WOLVES (July 21 – July 31) written by Sarah DeLappe and directed by Lila Neugebauer. The musical workshop presentations will include Taylor Mac’s first-ever 12-hour marathon performance of material from A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC A, co-directed by Mac and Niegel Smith, for one day only, July 30, noon to midnight.  Another major feature of the musical workshops at Powerhouse will be a new adaptation of Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley’s The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd by Santino Fontana. Artists with extensive stage and screen backgrounds will also be featured this summer, including John Slattery who will direct a reading of Lorien Haynes’ new play Good Grief; and Josh Radnor, who will bring his first-ever play, Sacred Valley, to the Reading Series. Additionally, the Powerhouse Season will provide an artistic residency for the new musical HEAD OVER HEELS, with a book by Jeff Whitty and music by The Go-Go’s, directed by Michael Mayer with musical supervision by Tom Kitt.   Casting and additional projects will be announced at a later date. Press contact: DKC/O&M (212/695-7400)...