june, 2024
Event Details
The 2024 Powerhouse Theater Season at Vassar College
From June 21-July 28, experience a summer full of music, artistic workshops and theatrical performances at Vassar College’s Powerhouse Theater.
Tickets are now on sale for the 38th Powerhouse Theater Season. The annual summer season brings together some of todayʼs most influential theatrical voices and welcomes the next generation of theater artists as members of the renowned Powerhouse Theater Training Program.
Powerhouse is thrilled to welcome new collaborators alongside the return of Vassar alums and old friends. This year Vassar welcomes an impressive lineup including Drew Droege (Titanique) and his new biting comedy, Messy White Gays, directed by Mike Donahue of The Legend of Georgia McBride. Jocelyn Kuritsky and her writing partners present episodes in progress of the Webby Award-winning podcast A Simple Herstory directed by Meghan Finn in collaboration with The Tank. Dorie Clark and Marie Incontrera bring the lesbian spy thriller musical Absolute Zero, turning the patriarchal spy genre on its head and director Ellie Heyman (The Great Work Begins) will bring it to the stage. Shanghai Sonatas, a musical based on the memoirs of Jewish refugee musicians who escaped Nazi Germany and eventually found safety in Shanghai in the 1930s and ’40s comes from the team of Sean Gao, Alan Goodson, and Joyce Hill Stoner, with direction by Chongren Fan (The Dragon King’s Daughter). The second installment of Performing Art at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center welcomes back Liz Dahmen. There will also be free readings of new works written and directed by Gloria Majule, Shariffa Ali, Savon Bartley, and Adam Coy (The Tank), C.J. Baer and Judson Jones (Theatre East), Max Reuben and Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, the winner of the Leah Ryan Fund’s “Leah Award.”
Vassar is also pleased to welcome to campus a new cohort of young actors, directors, and writers as members of the Powerhouse Theater Training Company. These emerging artists will present a slate of free theater throughout the season including Shakespeareʼs Twelfth Night, adapted and directed by Devin Kawaoka (“Chicago Med”), and The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Caley Chase. Both shows will be performed outside at the Preserve at Vassar. Max Reuben returns to direct the company in the innovative use of Soundpainting, a gestural language, in a completely devised project at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Theater-making team Hal Cosentino and Ellenor Riley-Condit explore humanity’s capacity to defy our assumed limits in Marathon.
“The 38th Powerhouse Season offers our audiences the opportunity to journey across the world, from a Hell’s Kitchen loft in Messy White Gays to a bumpy Tanzanian road trip in Gloria Majule’s Possessed; from a (possibly) haunted house in Max Reuben’s new play to the haven and challenger of Shanghai during the rise of the Nazi,” said Producing Director Michael Sheehan.
How to Purchase Tickets
Online
By Phone: (845) 437-5599In-Person: At the Powerhouse Theater Box Office
Box Office Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
All Musical Workshop and Play Workshop tickets: $30.00
Readings and Training Program Performances: FreeIf you have trouble purchasing your tickets online, please email phtboxoffice@vassar.edu.
Take Amtrak to the Powerhouse Theater
Attend the Powerhouse Theater when it reopens via Amtrak to the Poughkeepsie Station—Don’t forget to use the Amtrak See New York and Save 15% discount! Vassar College is 2.6 miles away from the station, which makes it an easy and convenient option to get to the theater.
From the Poughkeepsie Station, taken to your reserved NYTRAIN Enterprise Rent-a-Car. Click here to reserve your car or call the Poughkeepsie office today at (845) 485-2222.
