Powerhouse Theater Line-Up Announced
Staff | May 20, 2012 | CommentNew York Stage and Film (Johanna Pfaelzer, Artistic Director; Thomas Pearson, Executive Director, Mark Linn-Baker, Max Mayer, Leslie Urdang, Producing Directors) and Vassar College (Ed Cheetham, Producing Director) have announced the line-up of their 2012 Powerhouse Theater season.
Season highlights will include:
- Two fully-staged Mainstage works: award-winning playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Abigail/1702 (June 27 – July 8), directed by David Esbjornson, given a reading this past February at Powerhouse, and Emmy nominated writer Stephen Belber’s The Power of Duff, directed by Peter DuBois (July 18–29).
- There will be two musical workshops: Itamar Moses & Michael Friedman’s The Fortress of Solitude, directed by Daniel Aukin, based on the novel by Jonathan Lethem (June 29 – July 1), and Julia Jordan & Juliana Nash’s Murder Ballad, directed by Trip Cullman (July 27–29).
- Developmental play workshops will include: Eva Anderson, Will Berson & Zach Helm‘s Fires Are Confusing, created by Teatro de Facto (July 13 –15) and Marcus Gardley’s The House That Will Not Stand (July 20–22).
- In addition, Powerhouse will offer 10 new works during the Readings Festivals (June 22–24 and July 27–29).
Johanna Pfaelzer, the artistic director for New York Stage and Film, noted that the works in development this season “will take us from Massachusetts in 1702 to a present-day newsroom in Rochester; from 1970’s Brooklyn to New Orleans in 1836; from a Soviet prison in 1952 to the Chicago World’s Fairs. These plays and musicals are ambitious in their scope, wildly varied in their style, and each one is a story that demands to be told in a theater.”
Edward Cheetham, producing director for Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College, noted that in addition to the three outdoor classic presentations and soundpainting performances, this year will feature a residency by noted theater artist Erik Ehn that will culminate in a performance of Ehn’s Burnt Umber, directed by Mia Rovegno (July 20).
Subscriptions to the 2012 Powerhouse Theater season are available online beginning Wednesday, May 16, with single tickets available online Friday, June 1: powerhouse.vassar.edu. The Powerhouse Theater box office on the Vassar College campus (124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY) opens Wednesday, June 6: (845) 437-5599 or [email protected].