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 I 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 [...]
One very fun part of Benjamin Franklin’s printing career was the creation of Poor Richard’s Almanack , a collection of little nuggets of wisdom, or aphorisms. To celebrate Ben Franklin Unplugged, we ran a contest on Twitter to coin your own 21st Century aphorism [...]
Portland Center Stage is very happy to be hosting three vital conversations that touch upon three vital threads of Portland DNA: Education/Youth Activism; Bike Culture/DIY enterprise; The Arts & Evolving Audience.
The conversations are part of The New Communicators, a three-day festival of events, being held October [...]
The spectacular Mary Flower, one of the country’s premier finger-style acoustic blues/ragtime guitarists and the ineluctable Peter “Spud” Siegel, pianist/accordianist, trumpeter and vocalist nonpareil fill the Gerding with song this Saturday following the Ragtime matinee.
LIVE MUSIC EVERY SATURDAY!
Music Millennium, the place where people [...]
PCS’s production of Ragtime offers us an opportunity to take a keen look back at the physical and socio-cultural forces and aspirations that shaped our city (and in many respects continue to influence how we imagine progress and change), as well mine some [...]
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' [...]
DISCLAIMER: Unfortunately, I am not Kelsey. I’m his intern. If you don’t want to read further, I’ll understand. I will just be very profoundly sad.
To better welcome you the experience that is JAW, I have been given the daunting pleasure of preparing you, via daily blog, for [...]
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 [...]
{photo: The novelist E.L.Doctorow.}
File this under “Who Knew?”:
E.L. Doctorow (Edgar Lawrence), the writer of the book Ragtime upon which the award winning musical is based, was named after the great poet and short story writer Edgar Allen Poe, who had also lived in the Bronx.
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You’ve seen the bumper sticker, now see the play…
Nick Zagone’s work-in-progress piece being performed at tonight’s JAW: Made in Oregon is called Missing Pieces, and here’s what he has to say about it:
Hunter S. Thompson once said, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn [...]
Associate Artistic Director Rose Riordan has just released the official selections for our 2009 JAW: A Playwright’s Festival. I’m very excited, both by the caliber of playwright this year’s JAW has attracted and the breadth of plays, ranging from the anthropomorphic to the existential to the [...]
Friday, June 12, put together your Revoluntionary Costume when you attend Grey Gardens and receive a $10 gift card to Sweet Masterpiece chocolates. Generations of fashion designers have been inspired by Little Edie (check out Project Runway winner Jay McCarroll below). So show us [...]
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 [...]
“You should wear white more often—it becomes you.
The next person to speak to you will have a very intriguing proposal to make.
A lot of people in this room wish they were you.”—Frank O’Hara
À la recherche du temps Pardue
In conjunction with our Main Stage production of [...]
Week Two of Grey Gardens rehearsals. We’ve finished staging the play, and have another week and a half to build the layers, cement the harmonies and get the dance steps into the actors bodies. A week and half before we land onstage to add lights and sound.
Amy [...]
I just received an email from the folks at the Right Brain Initiative about an extraordinary summer institute they are hosting for parents and educators - all about how to integrate visual and performing art ideas and processes into a child’s overall learning experience (with some [...]
In honor of the cat-loving ladies of Grey Gardens, Portland Center Stage and Cat Adoption Team are hosting kitten adoption event at the Gerding Theater at the Armory on June 14, 2009. So come see Grey Gardens and bring home your very own fluffy [...]
We are one week into rehearsals for Grey Gardens, and it is proving both a fascinating and challenging journey. The harmonies, that sound so beautiful when you hear them, are really tight and tough to learn. Glad there are better people in the room than me [...]
Arts organizations are generally under a fair amount of pressure to inspire and engage young audiences- the “next generation,” as it were.
So how are we doing on that “metric?”
How about I let the kids speak for themselves? The following quotes are excerpted from a series of blogs [...]
THIS Sunday, following the 2 p.m. matinee:
Formative Stages: Theater and the Life of the Mind
Now in its second year, this engaging series (copresented by The Oregon Psychoanalytic Center and Portland Center Stage) puts theater on the couch and the audience in the conversational [...]
Storm Large, James Beaton, Jim Brunberg, and Scott Weddle talk love, life, brussel sprouts, and Crazy Enough!
Storm and Her Balls from Portland Center Stage on Vimeo.
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[...]Have you seen this?
So has Richard Nixon. He fights back. Here.
Oh! Speaking of kittens, Natalie’s working with the Cat Adoption Team on a chance for you to adopt your own Bouvier kitten just in time for Grey Gardens….more to come.
I don’t know about you, but I have a dirty political secret. It hides in my basement, under a pile of camping gear. It doesn’t look like much, just a tattered, bumper stickered box that smells faintly, but persistently, of faded political fervor. Inside? Campaign paraphenalia from [...]
It has turned into an absolutely brilliant day outside today, the kind of day that makes you want to curl up in a sunny spot with a great book.
Which reminds me- at Friday’s opening night performance of Frost/Nixon, I was reminded that nearly every character in the play wrote a [...]
Please join us on April 27th and May 4th on the Main Stage of the Gerding Theater, at 7:00pm, for staged readings of original plays by Portland High School students. Every year Michael O’Connell, Matthew B. Zrebski and I teach playwriting in different High Schools across the [...]
cyn, Natalie Gilmore, susanl, Kelsey, trishap, jessy-ola, TdR
