Technological mysteries mix with existential epiphany and a fair amount of anthropomorphic activity at the 2009 edition of Portland Center Stage?s JAW: A Playwright?s Festival. Featured plays in progress include Marc Acito?s dust up about gay penguin dads, Birds of a Feather; Pulitzer-prize nominee Will Eno?s Middletown; Jordan Harrison?s typography obsessed mystery Futura; 36 Views author Naomi Iizuka?s Berkley-Rep-bound ????? (Translation: Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West); Yale student Kim Rosenstock?s Michelangelo inspired romance of the bizarre, 99 Ways to F**k a Swan; and Seattle-based playwright Stephanie Timm?s On the Nature of Dust.
Portland Center Stage presents Grey Gardens: The Musical, the Broadway smash hit inspired by the cult documentary classic that redefined our notions of eccentricity, American royalty and glamour in decline.
Three studio titles will change and one production will move to the Main Stage in a major revision of the Portland Center Stage 2009/2010 season. Early strong seller The Chosen will move to the Main Stage, replacing Joe Turner's Come and Gone (which will be deferred to future season). In the studio, a possible Broadway tour causes our production of Thurgood Marshall to be postponed, and The Best So Far will be put on hold to give it a bit more gestation (and New York fundraising) time.
Three studio titles will change and one production will move to the Main Stage in a major revision of the Portland Center Stage 2009/2010 season. Early strong seller The Chosen will move to the Main Stage, replacing Joe Turner's Come and Gone (which will be deferred to future season). In the studio, a possible Broadway tour causes our production of Thurgood Marshall to be postponed, and The Best So Far will be put on hold to give it a bit more gestation (and New York fundraising) time.
Portland Center Stage presents Grey Gardens: The Musical, the Broadway smash hit inspired by the cult documentary classic that redefined our notions of eccentricity, American royalty and glamour in decline. Grey Gardens: The Musical previews on Tuesday May 26th, opens on Friday, May 29th and runs through June 21st, 2009. Tickets range from $33.50 to $68.50, with student and under 30 discounts available. Rush tickets for Grey Gardens are $15 and available starting 10 minutes prior to curtain. Show times are 7:30 pm Tuesday through Saturday, with a 2:00 pm Sunday matinee and alternating Saturday 2:00 pm and Sunday 7:30 pm performances. See the show calendar http://tickets.pcs.org/buytickets/calendar.asp for the complete performance schedule.
Portland Center Stage is thrilled to announce that due to sold out houses and increasing demand, Storm Large's world premiere autobiographical musical, Crazy Enough, will extend through June 28th, 2009.
Portland Center Stage presents Frost/Nixon, the play that became the Oscar-nominated film, about the conversation between David Frost and Richard Nixon that irrevocably changed the media's relationship to the American presidency. Frost/Nixon previews on Tuesday April 14th, opens on Friday, April 17th and runs through May 10th, 2009. Tickets range from $30.00 to $66.50, with student and under 30 discounts available. Rush tickets for Frost/Nixon are $15 and available starting 10 minutes prior to curtain. Show times are 7:30 pm Tuesday through Saturday, with a 2:00 pm Sunday matinee and alternating Saturday 2:00 pm and Sunday 7:30 pm performances. See the show calendar at http://tickets.pcs.org/buytickets/calendar.asp for the complete performance schedule.
Portland Center Stage presents Frost/Nixon, the play that became the Oscar-nominated film, about the conversation between David Frost and Richard Nixon that irrevocably changed the media's relationship to the American presidency. Frost/Nixon previews on Tuesday April 14th, opens on Friday, April 17th and runs through May 10th, 2009.
We the people of Portland Center Stage, in order to form a more artistic union, establish theatre, insure domestic entertainment, provide for the common man, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of tickets to ourselves and our patrons, do ordain and establish this New Deal for the citizens of Portland Oregon: For one day only, all remaining seats in the 2008/2009 season will be on sale for $25.
Portland Center Stage presents Frost/Nixon, the play that became the Oscar-nominated film, about the conversation between David Frost and Richard Nixon that irrevocably changed the media's relationship to the American presidency. Frost/Nixon previews on Tuesday April 14th, opens on Friday, April 17th and runs through May 10th, 2009. Tickets range from $30.00 to $66.50, with student and under 30 discounts available. Rush tickets for Frost/Nixon are $15 and available starting 10 minutes prior to curtain. Show times are 7:30 pm Tuesday through Saturday, with a 2:00 pm Sunday matinee and alternating Saturday 2:00 pm and Sunday 7:30 pm performances. See the show calendar at http://tickets.pcs.org/buytickets/calendar.asp for the complete performance schedule.
Portland Center Stage presents Frost/Nixon, the play that became the Oscar-nominated film, about the conversation between David Frost and Richard Nixon that irrevocably changed the media's relationship to the American presidency. Frost/Nixon previews on Tuesday April 14th, opens on Friday, April 17th and runs through May 10th, 2009.
What do you do when the doctor whispers into your nine-year-old ear that by the time you're 20 you'll be confronting the same visions that haunted your mother? For Storm Large (Portland rock legend and star of last season's Cabaret), answering that question has been a lifelong journey. This world premiere production weaves music and story into a ride through the darkest alleys and brightest vistas faced by the human mind. As hard as nails, as fragile as a raindrop, and as sexy as your most unrepeatable dreams- Crazy Enough will be an event that lingers long into the night.
With equal parts hope, humor and heartbreak, Portland Center Stage's 2009-2010 Season explores the challenges and rewards of creating community in a nation both defined and distracted by the chasm that often exists between our ideals and our actions... and between one neighbor and another.
