Thanksgiving weekend at Portland Center Stage was a very busy one indeed! While we were closed for the holiday itself, as the company enjoyed time off with friends and family and, of course, a fowl, the rest of the weekend defined “bustle!”
photo credit: Tom Oliver
Our November artist Ali Ippolito, has invited her dear friend, the deeply talented Singer-songwriter Levi Cecil (of Heroes and Villians, KBOO Midnight Mixtape and Destination DIY fame) to sing songs and share the riches this weekend.
“If the Northwest has its [...]
With a gift of $15 to Portland Center Stage, you could provide one young person with a new experience; a chance to see a live theater performance! Or send a group of ten students for $150. Make a difference in someone’s life and introduce them to the arts by making [...]
The Cratchitt family
The holidays mean family time. Lots and lots of family time! And welcome as that may be, sometimes you need a great actiivty to keep them occupied and out of your hair/kitchen/media room. How about a visit to Portland Center Stage and [...]
{photo: Amidst the post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping hubbub, we invite you to join us for a brief, relaxing Oasis at the Armory on Saturday, November 28th from 11 am to 7:00 pm. Palm trees not included.}
Planning to be downtown getting a jump start on holiday shopping this [...]
The Green Gift Guide
Gift-giving may take a different form this year, and the Chinook Book Green Gift Guide aims to help Portland-area residents shop locally, give experiences and save money. A partnership of the Portland Arts Coalition and Chinook Book, the guide [...]
So you’ve bought your tickets to A Christmas Carol for Mom, Dad, Grandma, Bobby and Susie. But what about little Sally? She’s only four and that’s too young for A Christmas Carol (No children under 6 are allowed into PCS shows). She really wants [...]
I’m really excited to announce and offer this backstage experience for Portland Teens.
Behind the Scenes for Teens: A Christmas Carol
Join cast member Kelsey Tyler (Fred, Young Ebeneezer) backstage for a behind the scenes look at rotating platforms and magic doors, hairpieces, petticoats, and dressing [...]
Each of the ghosts of A Christmas Carol has a rather heady message to impart to Scrooge on Christmas eve. Looking back at your past brings up painful regret. Looking ahead to a lonely, miserable future is so very grim. But it is [...]
As we immerse ourselves in the world of A Christmas Carol here at Portland Center Stage, we can’t help but be inspired by the spirit of giving that is the central message of this holiday classic. It may seem a bit sentimental, but when IÂ hear [...]
Portland Opera invited a few folks from the arts and journalism community to “live” blog from the Friday night performance of Philip Glass’ “Orphee.” Seemed like a new thing to do — knowing very little about Opera, but loving live performance. So, I said “sure.”
Phlip [...]
As a way to celebrate the people who support Portland Center Stage in a crucial way, we wanted to highlight Dennis and Jean Wilde, longtime donors of Portland Center Stage. We hope you enjoy getting to know some of the many people who make theater happen [...]
Ali Ippolito is back this week, TODAY (Saturday, Nov. 14) at 5 pm with Sweet Williams Ghost, the kind of luxurious music that lives in the dreamy recesses beneath the floorboards of roots-rich Americana. It features Ali with Dean Gorman (guitar, vocals) and Ben Cartwright [...]
Join us THIS Sunday, following the 2 p.m. matinee of Josh Kornbluth’s Ben Franklin Unplugged for Formative Stages: Theater and the Life of the Mind, copresented with The Oregon Psychoanalytic Center.
For this installment, Dr. Nancy Winters will delve into issues of independence, family and parental disappointment, [...]
Ben Franklin may be most famous for his role in a certain hand-signed Founding Document, but he actually made his living for many years as a printer and author of the Poor Richard’s Almanack. In celebration of that fact we have invited Portland-Area letterpress artists [...]
My daughter has the right idea, very dialed in with this high-velocity noveling.
She’s only 195 words into her nanowrimo novel, and already the hero/villain (to save time cutting to the chase, one character does double-duty as both good AND evil) has committed the crime, set out on [...]
Novel Influenza A, H1N1, yes, the swine flu, has blown its foul, fetid breath through our humble abode, leaving us all weak, pale, and pounds lighter, even our six-year-old, who hadn’t an ounce to spare, and now, only now, soon to be restored to our former health [...]
Natalie Gilmore, trishap, susanl, TdR, cyn, jessy-ola, Kelsey
