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April 1942. The Nobel Prize-winning author Ivan Bunin escaped the Russia Revolution 20 years earlier and created a new life for himself in the French countryside with his wife Vera  and his mistress. He still dreams of returning home, but he's not a young many anymore, and the world is at war again. Based on a true story, Vera Laughed is the funny, sexy, romantic, and moving story of a great writer in exile.

The cast will include Tony & Drama Desk-nominated actress Maureen Anderman (The Lady from Dubuque, You Can't Take It With You) as Vera, Jeffrey DeMunn (Our Town, Bent, CableACE Award for HBO's Citizen X)  as her husband Ivan, Ana Reeder (Hedda Gabler, Top Girls, Sight Unseen) as Margarita, Gareth Saxe (The Homecoming, Heartbreak House, Michael Mann's Public Enemy) as Vladimir, Jesse Pennington as Leonid, Bess Wohl as Galina, and Jason Dechert as Andrei.

Playwright Keith Bunin is the author of The Busy World is Hushed, The Credeaux Canvas, and a writer of HBO's award-winning In Treatment. Director Carolyn Cantor (Pumpgirl, Something You Did, Orange Flower Water) is the founding artistic director of the Obie Award-winning Edge Theater.

Listen to playwright Keith Bunin and actor Jeffrey DeMunn delight the WAMC 'Tablers' with their articulate and clever conversation.

Read an interview with Vera Laughed playwright Keith Bunin that appeared in the Poughkeepsie Journal (7/24/09).

July 22, 23, 24, 25, 28*, 29, 30, 31, August 1 at 8pm; July 25, 26, August 1, 2 at 2pm (*Post-show discussion on 7/28)

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A new musical set in West Virginia in 1962, The Burnt Part Boys follows a group of teenagers whose fathers were killed ten years earlier in a tragic coal mining accident. When they learn that the mine will be reopened, they set out secretly in the hopes of seeing the site, and keeping it closed. A deeply moving and powerful odyssey, The Burnt Part Boys is an unforgettable coming of age tale, set to a haunting and distinctive bluegrass and pop inspired score.

The cast will include Al Calderon (13) as Pete, Skylar Astin (Spring Awakening, Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock) as Jake, Noah Galvin as Dusty, Andrew Durand as Chet, Molly Ranson as Frances, Joe Cassidy (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 1776, Show Boat, Les Misérables) as Pete’s Movie Fantasy Men / Dad, and as the other three miners: Timothy Warmen (The Who’s Tommy), John Schiappa (Assassins, Take Me Out), and David Abeles. 

Originally conceived as a NYU thesis project by the award-winning team of Chris Miller (music) & Nathan Tysen (lyrics)-both recipients of The Vineyard's Kitty Carlisle Hart Musical Theatre, Jonathan Larson, and Richard Rodgers awards (Fugitive Songs, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick)-they enlisted the help of fellow NYU alum, Mariana Elder, to write the story. The initial outing of the The Burnt Part Boys, in 2006, was a critically-acclaimed workshop at Barrington Stage's music theater lab.

Four years later, the musical has been re-envisioned, and now with direction by Vassar and Powerhouse alumna Erica Schmidt (Humor Abuse), choreography by Peter Pucci (Drama Desk nominee for Queen's Boulevard), and musical direction by Vadim Feichtner (The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), a spring 2010 off-Broadway run is planned.

Listen to director Erica Schmidt and cast members Al Calderon and Noah Galvin discuss The Burnt Part Boys with WAMC Northeast Public Radio's Joe Donahue, Alan Chartock, and Sarah LaDuke.

July 17, 18, 21*, 22, 23, 24, 25 at 8pm; July 19, 25, 26 at 2pm; July 19, 26 at 7pm (*Post-show discussion on 7/21)

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Isabel just wants ninety minutes. Soon William will be married again, so ninety is all she has to make her case. Ninety to remember what they had. Ninety to regain what was lost. Just ninety to rediscover love or call it a day, forever.

The poignant and provocative new play from the author of the international hits Female of the Species, Honour, and Nightfall.

There will be a post-show discussion on Tuesday, July 7.

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Tina Girlstar is a pop music fairy tale about the corruptive lure of fame and the redemptive power of true talent! An aging record producer Daniella (Sandy Binion / Jane Eyre) decides her swan song will be to create the ultimate pop princess Vanessa (Leslie Kritzer / A Catered Affair, Legally Blond, Hairspray), Jeff (Eric William Morris / Coram Boy), Piper (Natalie Weiss), CeCe (Deone Zanotto / A Chorus Line), and Neela (Ronica Reddick / Jonestown).

Anton Dudley (Getting Home, Slag Heap; Honor and the River), a Vassar alumnus, wrote the book; lyrics are by Charlie Sohne (ReelPolitik: The Musical); music by Brian Feinstein (Anna Sosenko Trust Award for Mimi Le Duck); with direction by Jeremy Dobrish (Inner Voices: Solo Songs); and musical direction by Chris Fenwick (Grease, The Pajama Game).

July 31 and August 1 at 8pm

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The story of Whisper House begins with the arrival of young Christopher (Matthew Lobenhofer / Gypsy) at his aunt, Miss Lilly’s (Deirdre O’Connell / The Front Page) home – a lighthouse set on an island off the coast of New England. Christopher’s father was shot down in World War II and residents of the New England coastline are on alert for U-Boats and enemy aliens.  However young Christopher, who senses and hears the lighthouse’s ghostly residents, also weighs in on other possible aliens. The cast also Arthur Acuña as Yasujiro, Ted Koch (The Pillowman) as Charles, and Gideon Banner as Lieutenant Rando. The ghostly chorus will be David Poe (Lead Singer) and Holly Brook (Female Singer)—who is currently touring with Sheik.

The concept for Whisper House came about when actor and director Keith Powell (30 Rock) approached Tony-winner Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening) about developing a musical theater piece with him. Following a trip Powell took to New England, a story began to emerge that centered around a lighthouse. Playwright Kyle Jarrow (The Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant) was enlisted to write the script. Sheik's first solo CD since 2006, released in January, contains the tunes and stories from Whisper House.

Whisper House is slated to premiere at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre next January.

July 10, 11 at 8pm; July 11 at 2pm

Sold-out

An urban fairy tale about love, loss, and the metaphysical significance of a fresh pair of kicks.

From the author of In Case You Forget and History of the Word, and the director of the Tony Award-winning In the Heights.

The cast includes:

Peewee/Juney – Victor Rasuk
Sarah/Sabrina – Dominique Morisseau
Rob – Angelo Lozada
O.G. Mar – Ron Simons
Yu – Jinn S. Kim
Customers – Lucas Papaelias, Dominic Colon

July 23, 24, 25 at 8pm; July 25 at 2pm

Listen to Ben Snyder and Thomas Kail discuss Shoe Story with WAMC Northeast Public Radio "The Roundtable" producer Sarah LaDuke.

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From the comedian, actor, playwright and author Lewis Black (The Daily Show) comes this hilarious comedy about a wedding gone wrong, starting off with the appearance of one very uninvited guest.

*Please note, all performances of this production are sold out.

SOUL CAKE

By Dan Moran
Directed by David Wohl
With Brian Dykstra, Joel Farrell, Peter Gerety, Michael Lewis, Chris McCann, and Jay Patterson
July 30 at 8pm

PIRATE

Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley
With Ron Menzel, Fisher Stevens, Emily Swallow, and Yul Vazquez
July 31 at 8pm

RAIN

By Regina Taylor
Directed by Sheryl Kaller
With Eisa Davis, Harriet Foy, Lizan Mitchell, and Tonye Patano
August 1 at 2pm

THAT GOOD NIGHT

By Andrew Dolan
Directed by Bob Krakower
With Matthew Arkin, Gerry Bamman, Sheri Graubert, Marin Ireland, Wendy Makkena, Bruce Norris, Mary Beth Peil, and Reg Rogers
August 2 at 2pm

THE JACKSONIAN

By Beth Henley
Directed by Doug Hughes
With Margaret Colin, Paul Fitzgerald, Mary Catherine Garrison, Bill Pullman, and Bess Rous
August 2 at 5pm

FREE TO THE PUBLIC
RESERVATIONS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED (845) 437-5599)

A New Play

by Theresa Rebeck
Directed by Jeremy Cohen
Friday, June 26 at 8pm

Zero

By Julian Sheppard
Directed by Sarah Benson
Saturday, June 27 at 2pm

The Onion Game

By Bryan Delaney
Directed by Will Frears
Sunday, June 28 at 2pm

Language Rooms

By Yussef El Guindi
Directed by Blanka Zizka
Sunday, June 28 at 5pm

FREE TO THE PUBLIC
RESERVATIONS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED (845-437-5599)

THE APPRENTICE COMPANY: CONCERT READING
Martel Theater, Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film
August 1, 5pm
Free. Reservations (845) 437-5599

Set in 1916 in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the new musical Hello! My Baby--with book and new lyrics by Emmy and Golden Globe-winning writer Cheri Steinkellner, new music and arrangements by Jeff Rizzo, directed by Christa Kimlicko-Jones--will offer love triangles and gender swapping by a mixture of song-pluggers (sellers of sheet music), gangsters, immigrants, socialites, and sweatshop workers, featuring songs from the Tin Pan Alley-era by Irving Berlin, Gus Kahn, Shelton Brooks, Joe McCarthy, and George M. C

Hello! My Baby will be performed by members of the Powerhouse Apprentice Company, including the two leads, Marisa Caruso (Wappingers Falls, NY) as Nelly and Harrison Brian Fuchs (Brooklyn, NY) as Mickey, as well as Jaclyn Bethany (Jackson, MS) as Alice, Matthew Bourne (Soquel, CA) as Junior, Mary Katherine Bushnell (Birmingham, AL) as Frances, Daniel Emond (Scarsdale, NY) as Johnny, Colton Hearn (West Palm Beach, FL) as Kid, Eli Petzold (Los Angeles, CA) as Albie, Alex Runnels (Greenvale, NY) as Noble, Theresa Serrian (Murray, UT) as Marie, Max Stein (New York, NY) as Dickie, Chris White (Glen Rock, PA) as Artie, Susana Wolk (Beverly Hills, CA) as Violet. The members of the ensemble will be: Jessie Gabbard (Dallas, TX), Nadav Hirsh (Philadelphia, PA), Trina McGee (West Chester, PA), Kayla Noble (Cornwall, NY), and Susanna Ziko (Raleigh, NC). Meg Heus (Palisades, NY) will give stage directions.

Joining the Powerhouse Apprentice Company will be Denise Summerford (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Taboo, Saturday Night Fever) as Ethel, John Summerford (The Room, Twelfth Night) as Bert, Trista Polo (Half Moon Theater) as Mama Gold, and David Ringwood (County Players) as Stanford.

ABOUT HELLO! MY BABY
"A fun business - this making a new-fashioned musical," exclaimed Cheri Steinkellner (co-writer with her husband Bill, of the new critically-acclaimed Sister Act: The Musical). The genesis of Hello! My Baby, she explained was that after directing a production of teenagers last year she "fell in love with the way the elegant Cole Porter score worked like a charm on teen actors whose previous musical-theater vocabulary began with Grease and ended with High School Musical." She proceeded to "dig into the turn-of-the-century song trunk and discovered a giant, untapped treasure trove of great old tunes just waiting to be brushed off and sung by young voices."

Steinkellner decided to set Hello! My Baby in 1916, the year before World War I changed the world, and during the Tin Pan Alley era. "This was an alley where a spunky, ambitious teens (inspired by real-life Tin Pan denizens Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Jerome Kern) could hit the streets, peddling sheet music, and make a million writing a hit tune of his (or her) own," explained Steinkellner. 

As the book evolved -- informed greatly by the literature of the era, Steinkellner and Jeff Rizzo played with new-to-sound-authentic musical material: intros, verses, and counter-melodies, specific to our characters but true to their source. "Our intention has always been to weave the great Tin Pan tunes into this story in a way that makes them feel like they always belonged together."

ABOUT CHERI STEINKELLNER
In addition to Sister Act, Steinkellner's credits include theater (Princesses, Jailbirds on Broadway, Instaplay, Mosaic; Our Place), film (Teacher's Pet), television (Cheers, The Jeffersons, Benson, The Facts of Life), and appears as Danny B's mom in Dorm Life. She directs and teaches writing at UCSB in Santa Barbara, CA.

Dances at an Exhibition is inspired by the Art Center's concurrent exhibition Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection, as well as by other works on view from the permanent collection. Dances at an Exhibition will be per formed to a recording of Mussorgsky's suite, Pictures at an Exhibition.

Listen as Ed Cheetham and Apprentice Company Education Director, Tom Pacio join WAMC Northeast Public Radio's "The Roundtable" - among other things - try to explain soundpainting to Joe, Alan, and Sarah.

Relax, enjoy, and whet your appetite for the performance by savoring a light tasting menu of favorite cuisines from some of Arlington’s restaurants.

Wine and beer will be offered.

The Café on the Quad, located between the Powerhouse Theater and the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film, will be open from 5:30 - 8:00pm.   Cash only.

7/3: The Dubliner will offer selections from their popular Irish pub menu.

7/10-11: Zorona Restaurant will offer samplings from their Middle-Eastern menu.

7/17-18: The Beech Tree Grill will offer samplings from their American bistro menu, while Bittersweet will offer a dessert selection.

7/24-25: Twisted Soul will offer selections from their new American menu.

7/31-8/1: Babycakes Café will offer selections from their European-style eatery menu.

At the Alumnae House on Friday and Saturday evenings [7/10-11, 7/17-18, 7/24-25, 7/31-8/1] you can enjoy “Hudson Valley Mediterranean” flavors by Gigi Hudson Valley at the Alumnae House starting at 6pm. Download the prix-fixe dinner menu and make reservation requests to (914) 388-7175.

Remember to save your ticket stub as these Arlington restaurants will offer a discount or special Powerhouse menu offerings for your pre–and post–theater meal or dessert: All Shook Up, Babycakes Cafe, Beech Tree Grill, Bittersweet, The Dubliner, The Dutch Cabin, FresCo Tortillas Tex-Mex Express, Julie’s Restaurant, Kismat, Miss Saigon, Peking Restaurant, Pizzeria Bacio Restaurant, Saigon Cafe, Thai Spice, Tokyo Express, Twisted Soul, Zorona Restaurant

A SILVER CELEBRATION UNDER THE STARS