Six readings bring the 2010 season to a close
August 1st, 2010
The 2010 Powerhouse Season finished with a bang, featuring 6 readings along with performances of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Pirate, and a special joint apprentice and professional company workshop of 1940′s Radio Hour. Readings presented included:
I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World by Eve Ensler, directed by Rosario Dawson and Josie Rourke
Over Martinis, Driving Somewhere by Romulus Linney & Eleanor Cooney, directed by Michael Wilson
Umbrage by Steven Sater & Duncan Sheik, directed by Peter Askin
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert, directed by Judith Ivey
Friends with Kids by Jennifer Westfeldt (screenplay)
F2M by Patricia Wettig, directed by Maria Mileaf
Readings Festival casts featured Rosemarie DeWitt, Noah Emmerich, James DeMarse, Erin Gann, Lecy Goranson, Jon Hamm, Neal Huff, Patricia Kalember, Keira Keeley, Jodie Markell, Kathryn Meisle, Deirdre O’Connell, Ken Olin, Adam Scott, Heidi Schreck, Robert Stanton, Yul Vazquez, and more.
Kathryn Meisle and Neal Huff; Vikki Eugenis; Patricia Kalember. Photos by Buck Lewis.
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
July 28th, 2010
Concert reading of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, featuring Brian d’Arcy James, Anika Noni Rose, and David Turner, begins performances today. Catch it at the Powerhouse before it heads off-Broadway to the Vineyard!
Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Burton Lane
New book by Peter Parnell, based on the original book by Alan Jay Lerner
Musical direction and arrangements by Lawrence Yurman
Choreography by JoAnn Hunter
Re-conceived and directed by Michael Mayer
July 29 – August 1, 2010
David Turner; Anika Noni Rose and Brian d’Arcy James; Sarah Stiles, Saum Eskandani, and Zachary Prince. Photos by Buck Lewis.
John Patrick Shanley’s PIRATE begins on the mainstage
July 21st, 2010
Tony, Oscar, and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Patrick Shanley returns to the Powerhouse with Pirate: a funny, provocative, and wildly theatrical tale of a guy who keeps showing up. One never knows where the Pirate may appear. But when evil makes its entrance, Pirate can usually be found. The cast features Bill Camp (Coram Boy, Heartbreak House, Revolutionary Road), Ivan Hernandez (Yank!, Romantic Poetry, Most Happy Fella), Charlotte Parry (Equivocation, Coram Boy, The Real Thing), and Michael Puzzo (Killing Women, Khartoum, Dirty Story, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings).
There are 13 performances of Pirate: July 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 at 8:00pm; July 24, 25, 31, August 1 at 2:00pm. There will be a post-show discussion on Tuesday, July 27.
Purchase tickets to Pirate. Listen to John Patrick Shanley discuss Pirate on WAMC Northeast Public Radio.
Bill Camp; Ivan Hernandez and Michael Puzzo; Ivan Hernandez and Charlotte Parry. Photos by Buck Lewis.
Maria Cassi in My Life With Men – And Other Animals
July 13th, 2010
With Jamie Edwards at the piano
By Maria Cassi and Patrick Pacheco
Directed by Peter Schneider
July 16 – July 18, 2010
Internationally acclaimed performance artist Maria Cassi offers an exhilaratingly intensive course on love, seduction, death, and … olive oil, and explodes the American myths of Italian romance and womanhood created through movies and television, exemplified by iconic stars like Gina Lollobridgida, Anna Magnani, and Sophia Loren.
At the Shiva Theater. For tickets and additional information, see http://powerhouse.vassar.edu.
Bonfire Night: July 16 – 18
July 13th, 2010
Book, music, and lyrics by Justin Levine
Directed by Alex Timbers
Musical supervision by Kimberly Grigsby
In this scrappy, hilarious, and thought-provoking new musical, a rousing band of English Catholics revolt against a tyrannical King James in the new musical Bonfire Night, with book, music, and lyrics by Justin Levine, directed by Obie winner Alex Timbers (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson). This true story of Guy Fawkes and the 1605 Gunpowder Plot is illuminated by a score that blends jazz, pop, rock, and gospel.
The cast features Drama Desk Award winner Santino Fontana (Billy Elliot, Sunday in the Park With George, and Tony Award nominee John Ellison Conlee (The Constant Wife, The Full Monty), David Rossmer (Children and Art, Fiddler on the Roof, Titanic), Jonathan B. Wright (Spring Awakening), Robert Petkoff (Ragtime, Spamalot, Fiddler on the Roof), Charlie Pollack (Urinetown), Greg Hildreth (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Demond Green (The Toxic Avenger), and Michael Izquierdo (The Miracle Worker, Taking Woodstock).
Presented as a concert reading in the Martel Theater, there are three performances only of Bonfire Night: July 16, 17 at 8:00pm, July 18 at 2:00pm. For additional information and tickets, see http://powerhouse.vassar.edu.
David Rossmer, Santino Fontana, and Jonathan B. Wright; Greg Hildreth; Demond Green and John Ellison Conlee. Photos by Buck Lewis.
