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How do you celebrate over two decades of top-notch theater? With food, drink, and Powerhouse artists returning to perform, of course! The 25th anniversary gala will take place Saturday,
June 27. The benefit kicks off in the Martel Theater with performances of selections from past plays and musicals, including Powerhouse’s first production Savage in Limbo, as well as Snakebit, Side Man, Dangerous Beauty, and Nero, featuring Oscar winner Mary McDonnell, Randle Mell, Mark Linn-Baker, Rob Morrow, and many others. more...
A Silver Success
"The partnership started with a bang," recalls Beth Fargis-Lancaster, executive producer of the Powerhouse Theater until 2006. "Vassar and New York Stage and Film produced amazing theater and so affordably," says Fargis-Lancaster. "Every year it got a little bigger, and now you need a roadmap to read the season. There’s so much going on." more...
Driven
In June of 1909, just six years after Horatio Jackson completed the first transcontinental drive across the U.S., Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old Vassar alumna, set off on a record-breaking journey of her own. With three female companions in tow, Ramsey took to the open road in a 30-horse-power Maxwell DA, making history as the first woman to drive cross-country. more...