About

Powerhouse: International launches this fall at Brooklyn’s Powerhouse Arts. Conceived and curated by Tony Award–winning producer and Artistic Director David Binder, the festival draws on Brooklyn’s legacy of cultural intersection to bring together artists from around the world in a space built for imagination without limits.

At a time when opportunities for cultural exchange are shrinking, Powerhouse: International offers a charged meeting ground for theater, music, dance, installation, and works that defy category. The former power plant becomes a place where artists and audiences move through each other’s rhythms, stories, and forms. Three major artists will make their American debuts; others return with groundbreaking new work. Across nearly three months, the program ranges from global superstars to daring new voices, each testing the stage’s capacity to provoke, connect, and transform.

That energy is matched by a commitment to access: more than 10,000 tickets at $30 to ensure that the work is for everyone. This festival is rooted in artistic freedom, experimentation, and bold response in a moment that demands nothing less—unstuffy, unbound, porous, alive.

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The Venue

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Powerhouse Arts, with its graffiti-clad walls, vibrant artistic community, and ethos of radical possibility, is more than a venue. It’s a statement, and the perfect home for a festival rooted in artistic freedom, experimentation, and bold response in a moment that demands nothing less.

The 117-year-old building once powered Brooklyn’s streetcars. Now it powers something else entirely: 50,000 square feet of space, a massive Grand Hall, and studios and fabrication shops. An extended network of art and fabrication professionals work together here to co-create and share artistic practices vital to the wellbeing of artists and the communities to which they belong.