Vassar & New York Stage and Film has announced the programming lineup for their upcoming 34th Powerhouse Season, the annual summer season that brings together some of the most influential theatrical voices working today for fully-staged productions, workshop presentations, and readings of new plays and musicals in progress. The 34^th Powerhouse Season will be presented at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY from June 22 through July 29, 2018. For more information, visit powerhouse.vassar.edu. The upcoming season will feature two main stage productions in the Powerhouse Theater: RADIO ISLAND (June 28 – July 8) by Liza Birkenmeier directed by Jaki Bradley.  Ellen is an expert hostage negotiator facing her biggest challenges yet. In this high-stakes thriller, she works from her rural childhood home to free an oil tanker from pirates – while also balancing her injured mother’s rehab, salvaging her crumbling love life, and tracking down a mysterious visitor from her troubled past;  and THE WAVES (July 19 – July 29) adapted from the novel by Virginia Woolf, book by Lisa Peterson, music and lyrics by David Bucknam, with additional music by Adam Gwon, directed by Lisa Peterson, with creative consultant, Raul Esparza.   Six childhood friends and their shifting relationships come vibrantly to life in this captivating chamber musical inspired by Virginia Woolf’s celebrated novel. Over the course of one day - or is it a lifetime? The musical workshop presentations, presented in the Vogelstein Center for Drama & Film and the Susan Stein Shiva Theater, will include four new projects: ALICE BY HEART (July 5-7) book by Steven Sater and Jessie Nelson, music by Duncan Sheik, lyrics by Steven Sater  & directed by Jessie Nelson;  THE CONNECTOR    (July 13-15) music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, book by Jonathan Marc Sherman, directed by Daisy Prince. LITTLE ORPHAN DANNY (July 26-29), book, lyrics, and music by Dan Finnerty, created by Dan Finnerty and Sean Daniels, additional music by Dan Lipton, directed by Sean Daniels;  COWBOY BOB  (July 27-29) created by Molly Beach Murphy, Jeanna Phillips, and Annie Tippe, music and lyrics by Jeanna Phillips, book and additional lyrics by Molly Beach Murphy, additional music by Alex Thrailkill, directed by Annie Tippe.  This summer’s ‘Inside Look’ Workshops to be presented in the Susan Stein Shiva Theater are: INDIA PALE ALE (July 6-8) by Jaclyn Backhaus, directed by Will Davis &  OUR COUNTRY (July 13-15) conceived by Annie Saunders and Becca Wolff, direction and dramaturgy by Becca Wolff, additional dramaturgy and original writing by Annie Saunders, additional devising by The Company.  The annual Readings Festival, split between two weekends (June 22-24 and July 20-22), will include: On That Day in Amsterdam by Clarence Coo; The Pain of My Belligerence by Halley Feiffer; Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur; The North Star by Donja R. Love; The Purists by Dan McCabe; The Dizziness of Freedom by Stephen Nathan; Melissa R. and Dorothy Sue, book by Geoffrey Nauffts, music and lyrics by Jonatha Brooke; and additional projects to be announced. Press contact: DKC/O&M (212-695-7400)...