Press Releases

Josh Radnor, star of CBS’s How I Met Your Mother, and Tony Award-nominated Jennifer Westfeldt lead the cast of Finks, at Vassar and New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater. July 23 – August 3, 2008

“I deeply admire my parents’ courage,” said playwright Gilford about the inspiration for his choice to dramatize their story. “I also admired their acting talents. And the thing that I most admired was that despite everything, after years and years of struggle as artists and activists, they truly loved each other and stayed together for 40 years until my father’s death.”
Vassar College Press Release, posted July 14, 2008
Click for full story

Vassar and New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Apprentice Company presents a series of free productions this July, including two classic works by Brecht and Shakespeare, on the Vassar campus in Poughkeepsie. July 10 - 31, 2008

Each summer the apprentice company also stages free public performances of classic plays at the college’s Outdoor Amphitheater. In 2007, these performances were named the “Best Way to Introduce Kids to the Classics,” by Hudson Valley Magazine, in the annual “Best of the Hudson Valley.” This year the company will present Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Woman of Setzuan and William Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The apprentices also perform a special soundpainting program at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.
Vassar College Press Release, posted July 8, 2008
Click for full story

Emmy nominee David Schwimmer will direct workshop of Stephen Belber’s Fault Lines as part of Vassar and New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater season. August 2-3, 2008

Emmy nominated actor and director David Schwimmer has just signed on to direct the developmental workshop of Stephen Belber’s Fault Lines (August 2–3) during Vassar and New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater season. Also included in the workshop series are Alan Zweibel’s one-man show The History of Me, directed by Ron Lagomarsino (July 18–20) and Dael Orlandersmith’s Horsedreams, directed by Gordon Edelstein (July 25–27). This workshop series, called Inside Look, is intended to bridge the gap between a reading and a full production; works are presented with script-in-hand, with minimal production values.
Vassar College Press Release, posted July 7, 2008
Click for full story

Powerhouse Theater apprentices travel back in time at the Vassar-Warner Adult Home, performing a series of dramatic and musical sketches based upon interviews with residents. July 5-6, 2008

Powerhouse Theater apprentices are about to travel back to the 1930s and 1940s, in vignettes they’ve created based upon the lives of Vassar-Warner Adult Home residents.
Vassar College Press Release, posted July 2, 2008
Click for full story

Idina Menzel highlights casting for Powerhouse musicals, in the new work Nero by the Spring Awakening team Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, which has added a fourth performance on Sunday, July 13, 2008

Vassar and New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater announces the casting of Idina Menzel, the Tony Award-winning actress and singer from Broadway’s Wicked and Rent, in the new musical Nero, by Spring Awakening co-creators Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik. The cast will also feature Jeffrey Carlson (Taboo) as the title character, and Lea Michele (Wendla in the original cast of Spring Awakening) as Nero’s young wife Octavia.
Vassar College Press Release, posted June 30, 2008
Click for full story

Additional press releases and media coverage:

In the Media

David Schwimmer to direct Powerhouse workshop
Poughkeepsie Journal, July 7, 2008
View Current article

Schwimmer to Direct Belber's Fault Lines at Powerhouse Theater
Playbill, July 7, 2008
View Current article

PRESS CONTACT

Emily Darrow
Media Relations Associate
(845) 437-7690
emdarrow@vassar.edu