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Powerhouse Summer Suppers at Café on the Quad available on Fridays & Saturdays, July 3 - Aug. 1, 2009.
Powerhouse Theater has joined with five Arlington restaurants and will offer "Powerhouse Summer Suppers at Café on the Quad," on Friday and Saturday evenings - July 3 to August 1 - from 5:30 to 8:00pm (note there is no offering on July 4). Powerhouse patrons will now be able to relax, savor, and enjoy a selection of cuisines on five weekends this summer. These will be offered on a rotating basis by Arlington's Babycakes Café, Beech Tree Grill (with desserts by Bittersweet), the Dubliner, Twisted Soul, and Zorona Restaurant.
Full casting announced for Powerhouse Musicals and Anika Noni Rose confirmed for Powerhouse gala, June 27, 2009
Casting has just been announced for Vassar & New York Stage and Film Powerhouse Theater's three musicals of the 25th anniversary season and Tony Award-winner Anika Noni Rose will join the star-filled line-up of the 25th anniversary Powerhouse Theater gala.
Voyages: The Art of Evelyn Metzger, an exhibition of work spanning the 20th century, June 25 – July 31, 2009.
The Palmer Gallery presents Voyages: The Art of Evelyn Metzger, June 25 – July 31. Metzger’s work spans most of the 20th century and from the thousands of paintings she created, 42 have been chosen to represent the range of her temporal, stylistic, and physical journeys as an artist.
Powerhouse Theater announces casting for first Mainstage show Ninety, June 30 - July 12, 2009
Vassar & New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater announces the cast for the first of three Mainstage productions of the 25th anniversary season: Ninety, by Joanna Murray-Smith, directed by Maria Mileaf, beginning performances June 30 and running through July 12, and new additions to the star-filled line-up for the 25th anniversary gala benefit, “Silver Celebration under the Stars,” June 27.
The newly restored model of Eero Saarinen’s original design for Vassar’s Emma Hartman Noyes House will be on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, June 2-September 6, 2009.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center will provide a view into noted architect Eero Saarinen’s original design for The Emma Hartman Noyes House (1958), part of his 1954 master plan for the north end of the Vassar campus, with an exhibition featuring his original architectural model for the site, on view from June 2 through September 6.
The celebratory 25th anniversary of Vassar & New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater season, June 26 - August 2, 2009.
Announcing the celebratory 25th anniversary of Vassar & New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater season, including new plays and musicals by Lewis Black, Keith Bunin, Beth Henley, Joanna Murray-Smith, Theresa Rebeck, John Patrick Shanley, Duncan Sheik, Regina Taylor, along with a full production of the new musical, The Burnt Part Boys (6/26 – 8/2/2009).
Annual summer concert series offers four concerts by world-renowned artists, June 14 - August 2, 2009.
Beginning on Sunday, June 14, the Vassar Department of Music will offer the 14th annual free summer concert series, held in the acoustically superb (and air-conditioned) Martel Recital Hall of the Skinner Hall of Music on the Vassar College campus. This series of four concerts will open with an afternoon of chamber music on June 14 at 3pm—performed by violinist Joseph Genualdi, cellist Sophie Shao, and pianist Richard Wilson—and will continue with concerts on June 21 (violinist Stephanie Chase, cellist Mark Shuman, mezzo-soprano Mary Ann Hart, and pianist Todd Crow, 3pm); July 10 (cellist Colin Carr and pianist Thomas Sauer, 8pm), and August 2 (pianist Brian Mann, with guest artists including jazz violinist Iain Mann, 3pm).
Archive
- Powerhouse Theater’s 25th anniversary gala benefit, 6/27
- Limited balcony seating at Powerhouse’s 25th anniversary gala now available for $50, 6/27
- Lehman Loeb Art Center acquires three paintings of Matthew Vassar’s estate
- Studio Arts exhibitions at the Palmer Gallery through 5/24
- Recitals, concerts, workshops, and master classes this spring, 2/13 – 5/23
About the Arts
Powerhouse Theater
The Powerhouse Theater is a collaboration between New York Stage and Film and Vassar College. It is dedicated to both emerging and established artists in the development and production of new works for theater and film. During an intense eight-week summer residency on the Vassar campus, up to twenty different projects are publicly presented, typically engaging more than 200 professional artists and theater students. Plays, musicals, and screenplays are presented in a variety of forms: readings, workshops, and fully staged productions. Since the first Powerhouse Theater season in 1985, New York Stage and Film and Vassar have served more than 2,000 artists and over 175,000 audience members through the development and production of artistically exceptional and affordably priced performances.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Located just inside Vassar's Main Gate, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center houses the college's permanent collection, over 15,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and glass and ceramic wares, charting the history of art from antiquity to the present. The Permanent Collection Galleries feature 350 works, ranging from the sculpted Head of Viceroy Merymose from His Outer Sarcophagus (Egyptian, c 1375 BCE) in the Antiquities Gallery to Marsden Hartley's oil on canvas Indian Composition (1914-15) in the Twentieth Century Gallery. For information on current and upcoming special exhibitions, self-guided and curriculum-based tours, and group visits, please visit the website. The art center is open to the public, and admission is free.
James W. Palmer Gallery
Located in the College Center in Main Building, the James W. Palmer III '90 Gallery presents eight shows annually, including exhibitions by renowned artists and photographers, studio art faculty and students, and local arts organizations. Recent highlights included Andrea Baldeck’s black-and-white photo exhibit, Touching the Mekong: A Southeast Asian Sojourn, organized by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; the Vassar Haiti Project’s annual exhibition and auction of imported arts and handcrafts; and Design Inside, showcasing the work of Vassar’s College Relations design team. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. For information on upcoming exhibitions, visit the website or call (845) 437-5370.
Music Department
Located in the Belle Skinner Hall of Music, the Martel Recital Hall is wonderfully suited, both acoustically and aesthetically, to music performance. With seating for 500, the Martel is home to the Vassar College Orchestra, Choir, Women's Chorus, Madrigal Singers, and numerous chamber groups and ensembles. The Martel concert schedule routinely includes distinguished guest artists, faculty recitals, senior recitals, and special musical events, such as last year's series of organ recitals celebrating the installation and dedication of the college's superb pipe organ, designed by masterbuilder Paul Fritts. For information on upcoming concerts and events (which are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted), please visit the website.
Dance Department
The Department of Dance sponsors several public performances each year. Among those, the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre (VRDT) has a series of Works in Progress showings in the fall, a winter Modfest performance in conjunction with the The Department of Music, winter galas at the 1869 Bardavon Opera House, and two All Parents Weekend performances in the spring. The department's Master Class program annually invites at least one ballet and one modern expert to campus in addition to two people in other areas of dance. Public performances and lectures are often associated with these renowned visitors. Guest artists in the past have included: Irina Kolpokova, Arthur Mitchell, Helene Alexopoulos, Gregory Hines, Anna Kisselgoff, Donald Byrd, Edward Villella, Ronald K. Brown, Irene Dowd, Allegra Kent, Gelsey Kirkland, Pilobolus w/Adam Battlestein, Suzanne Farrell, Mummenschantz, Eldar Aliev, Deborah Jowitt, Bill T. Jones, Pascal Rioult, Clinton Luckett of ABT, Bill Irwin, and Donald McKayle. Many of the department's dance performances are in the Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, located in Kenyon Hall.