David Hyde Pierce, Sam Gold, and More to Direct 2014 Season of Powerhouse Play Readings
(© David Gordon)
New York Stage and Film and Vassar College have announced the Play Readings Festival lineups that will bookend their upcoming 30th Powerhouse Theater season, running from June 20-July 27 at Vassar College.
The season's first Reading Festival, which will run June 20-22, features The Unbuilt City, written by Keith Bunin and directed by Sean Mathias; Choice, written by Winnie Holzman and directed by Sheryl Kaller; The Humans, written by Stephen Karam and directed by Sam Gold; Gilgamesh, the Prince written by David Rabe; and Fall written by Bernard Weinraub and directed by Peter DuBois.
The second festival, which will run July 25-27, will include The Invisible Hand, written by Ayad Akhtar and directed by Ken Rus Schmoll; American Pop, written by Michael Friedman and directed by Trip Cullman; Turn Me Loose, written by Gretchen Law and directed by John Gould Rubin; Ripcord , written by David Lindsay-Abaire and directed by David Hyde Pierce; and Dry Land, written by Ruby Rae Spiegel and directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt.
As previously announced, the three mainstage productions of the 30th Powerhouse Theater season are The Babylon Line, written by Richard Greenberg and running from June 26-July 6; In Your Arms, a collaboration with 10 playwrights (Douglas Carter Beane, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Carrie Fisher, David Henry Hwang, Rajiv Joseph, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, Lynn Nottage, and Alfred Uhry), running from July 5-13; and The Danish Widow, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, and running from July 16-27.
For more information about the 30th Powerhouse Theater season, click here.
