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!”
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Because you're not all alike!
As we have opened our fourth year in the Gerding Theater at the Armory, we’re interested in learning more about our audience. Those who have been with us for years, and those who may have only found us' [...]
Storm and the Minor League All Stars
Well, one idea is singing the Star Spangled Banner at the Minor League All Stars game at PGE Park in Portland, July 15, 2009. Lucky for all of us, it’s a quick dash back [...]
As most of you have read by now, Oregon Ballet Theater has launched an effort to raise a significant amount of funds before the end of their fiscal year, June 30. As part of that effort, they have put together an amazing benefit performance featuring international stars of the dance [...]
Bread & Circuses Survey
Portland Center Stage is working to collect data about our community programming. If you attended our Bread & Circuses event on Saturday, April 17, you received an invitation to take this survey. Your responses will be invaluable in this research, so thank [...]
You are invited to the 17th Annual Businesses for an Environmentally Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Awards Breakfast Event, with a keynote from Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof.
Enjoy a delicious, local breakfast and celebrate as Portland’s most sustainable businesses for 2009 are announced! Learn from [...]
Just added special event!
Portland Center Stage presents the American premiere of How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found in the Ellyn Bye Studio from January 27 through March 22. Playwright Fin Kennedy, a breakout new theatrical star in Great Britain, is in the U.S. for only a few days, [...]
As Marty Hughley wrote in the Oregonian this week, the Fertile Ground Festival, the new citywide festival of original theater, made an especially fitting offer for these times: a price reduction.
The Portland Area Theater Alliance, which developed the festival concept and coordinated presentations by dozens of theater companies and [...]
Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Portland Center Stage, Portland Opera, Oregon Ballet Theatre, the Oregon Symphony and White Bird invite you to make the rounds of culture in February! We know times are tough so we, collectively, want to help you see more performances [...]
Tuesday, January 20, the U.S. welcomes a new president to office. As the nation celebrates one of the hallmarks of our democracy — the peaceful passing of power from one leader to the next — Portland Center Stage offers a one day sale to its current production, [...]
As we prepare to stage the American premiere of How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, in the Ellyn Bye Studio, the staff at PCS has found that our ears are especially attuned to stories of people who have, or have attempted, to “drop out” [...]
December 23, 2008
The weather outside IS frightful. But it’s warm and glowy in the Gerding Theater at the Armory, and many patrons are still making their way to Portland Center Stage. So we are here, and will present performances of A Christmas Carol as scheduled!
If you cannot make it to the [...]
A Christmas Carol matinee today, December 21, is scheduled to go on as planned. We have a number of patrons who live within walking distance or easy public transport ride of the theater, and our cast all stayed downtown this weekend in order to avoid dangerous travel. So for those [...]
{photo: Julianna Jaffe as the Ghost of Christmas Present. Photo by Owen Carey.}
With the predictions of rough weather this weekend, we wanted to update you about performances at Portland Center Stage.
We do adhere to “the show must go on!” philosophy. So you can plan on our performances taking [...]
I’ve worked in professional theater for (gulp) 28 years now, and this is the first time I’ve been part of presenting a production of Dickens’ holiday classic. Seriously, that is a lot like someone who’s been a waiter for 28 years and never poured a cup of [...]
On November 12, Portland Center Stage will be 20 years old! And we’re in our 21st season…so we’re counting ourselves as legal!
To celebrate, we’re offering a one day sale, and on that day you, too, are only 21. Purchase any available seat for the remaining performances [...]
Portland Center Stage encourages everyone to get out and vote! So we’re offering our own little incentive…
Between now and the close of polls Tuesday night, anyone who tells us they have voted, or who enters the code word “vote” when ordering online, will be able to purchase [...]
Oregon Public Broadcasting interviews author/director D.W. Jacobs about R. Buckminster Fuller: the History [and Mystery] of the Universe. [news.opb.org]
[...]What a fun morning! Into the studio we went, to record our radio spot for Guys & Dolls. We have a terrific actor named Todd A. Horman playing “Nicely-Nicely Johnson” at PCS, and our producer, George Taylor, worked up a great script for him to play with. And [...]
While theater experiences come in all varieties, and the kinds of people who go to theater come in even more varieties, there is one fact about theater that virtually everyone involved in it will agree with – there is no live theater without an audience. Most of [...]
Many people have noted that life’s path is seldom straight and that the twists and turns it takes are filled with unexpected events. Those people aren’t just purveyors of cliché; or, if they are, it’s because cliché is usually the result of, and by definition, a well-worn [...]
