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Powerhouse Summer Suppers at Café on the Quad available on Fridays & Saturdays, July 3 - Aug. 1, 2009.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY-Vassar & New York Stage and Film's 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.
The Café on the Quad will be located between the Powerhouse Theater and the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film on the Vassar campus. Wine and beer will be offered in addition to a menu sampling from each of the restaurants (cash only):
- On Friday, July 3, The Dubliner will offer selections from their popular Irish pub menu.
- On Friday, July 10, and Saturday, July 11, Zorona Restaurant will offer samplings from their Middle-Eastern menu.
- On Friday, July 17, and Saturday, July 18, The Beech Tree Grill will offer samplings from their American bistro menu, while Bittersweet will offer a dessert selection.
- On Friday, July 24, and Saturday, July 25, Twisted Soul will offer selections from their new American menu.
- Concluding the 2009 Café on the Quad on Friday, July 31, and Saturday, August 1, will be selections from Babycakes Café European-style eatery menu.
In addition, at the Alumnae House on Friday and Saturday evenings [7/10-11, 7/17-18, 7/24-25, 7/31-8/1] Gigi Hudson Valley will offer "Hudson Valley Mediterranean" flavors starting at 6pm. The prix-fixe dinner menu is available to view online. Reservation requests should be made to (914) 388-7175.
In addition, Powerhouse patrons should save their ticket stubs as 17 Arlington restaurants will redeem them for a pre- and post- theater discount or special Powerhouse menu offerings.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE POWERHOUSE SEASON
Join the Powerhouse Theater community and become among the first to see a new play or musical performed, often before it goes on to a larger venue, on or off-Broadway, or in theaters across the country.
The Powerhouse Mainstage productions this season will feature Joanna Murray-Smith's Ninety, directed by Maria Mileaf and featuring Sarita Choudhury and Kevin Kilner (June 30 - July 12); there will be a special musical presentation of The Burnt Part Boys (7/17-26); and Hudson Valley native and HBO's In Treatment writer Keith Bunin's Vera Laughed, directed by Carolyn Cantor (July 22 - August 2) - all tickets $35.
All tickets to the Martel Musicals are $25. Performances and seating is limited for the concert readings of Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow's Whisper House, directed by Keith Powell (July 10, 11) and Anton Dudley, Charlie Sohne, and Brian Feinstein's Tina Girlstar, directed by Jeremy Dobrish (7/31 - 8/1).
All performances for comedian Lewis Black's comedy Slight Hitch, directed by Joe Grifasi, have already sold-out, however limited tickets for Ben Snyder's urban fairy tale Shoe Story, directed by Tony Award-winner Thomas Kail, are still available (July 23 - July 25) - all tickets for the Inside Look series are $20.
The second free Readings Festivals will close the season and will include new plays by Andrew Dolan, Beth Henley, Dan Moran, John Patrick Shanley, and Regina Taylor. Seating is extremely limited and reservations are strongly recommended for this free series.
Mainstage subscriptions ($89.25) offer admission to any performance of the three Mainstage shows (Ninety, The Burnt Part Boys, and Ninety) and all nine readings at 15% off single ticket prices.
This year, continuing its mission of presenting artistically exceptional and affordably priced performances, Powerhouse Theater will offer a $5 student rush ticket for students 25 years and under [as available 15 minutes before curtain].
To purchase tickets, go online to the Box Office, call (845) 437-7235 or (845) 437-5599, or visit the Box Office on the Vassar campus.
Vassar is sited in New York's beautiful Hudson Valley in Poughkeepsie, NY. Go online for directions to the Vassar campus.
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations at Vassar should contact the Office of Campus Activities at (845) 437-5370. Without sufficient notice, appropriate space and/or assistance may not be available.
Posted by College Relations Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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 18,000 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.