Live professional theater returns to Vassar for the first time in over a year with an outdoor performance of Mexodus—a hip-hop concept album co-created and performed by actor-musicians Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, inspired by the thousands of enslaved people in the Southern United States who followed a lesser-known branch of the Underground Railroad into Mexico instead of heading north.

The July 17 event kicks off the 2021 summer season of New York Stage and Film, the not-for-profit theater incubator that has been Vassar’s partner in presenting Powerhouse Theater every summer since 1985.

New York Stage and Film’s 2021 Summer Season will also hold performances at Poughkeepsie’s Revel 32 and at Marist College, including another performance of Mexodus on July 24. To reserve pay-what-you-can tickets for any of the performances, visit New York Stage and Film.