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Clocking in at 90 minutes with no intermission and featuring Portland Center Stage favorite Ebbe Roe Smith as Ebenezer Scrooge, this year's Rose Riordan directed production of A Christmas Carol promises more spooky and sparkly bits per second than ever before... plus a plethora of pre-show treats and activities to make it a festive night out for the whole family.

Aubrey Manning as Sister is coming home to ACT for the holidays! In addition to A Christmas Carol (November 27-December 27), ACT is pleased to announce it has added Sister's Christmas Catechism to its 2009 holiday line-up, arriving at ACT's Falls Theatre November 27 for 32 spirited performances. In this latest addition to the Late Nite Catechism series, Sister employs techniques from her favorite TV show, Forensic Files to discover the whereabouts of the Magi's Gold.

Clocking in at 90 minutes with no intermission and featuring Portland Center Stage favorite Ebbe Roe Smith as Ebenezer Scrooge, this year's Rose Riordan directed production of A Christmas Carol promises more spooky and sparkly bits per second than ever before... plus a plethora of pre-show treats and activities to make it a festive night out for the whole family.

Portland Center Stage invites you meet one of America's unlikeliest Ben Franklin scholars, monologist and fringe theater performer Josh Kornbluth, as he loses some hair and gains a fresh perspective on the costs of independence, the meaning of revolution and the vagaries of Founding Fatherhood in Ben Franklin: Unplugged.

Clocking in at 90 minutes with no intermission and featuring Portland Center Stage favorite Ebbe Roe Smith as Ebenezer Scrooge, this year's Rose Riordan directed production of A Christmas Carol promises more spooky and sparkly bits per second than ever before... plus a plethora of pre-show treats and activities to make it a festive night out for the whole family.

Clocking in at 90 minutes with no intermission and featuring Portland Center Stage favorite Ebbe Roe Smith as Ebenezer Scrooge, this year's Rose Riordan directed production of A Christmas Carol promises more spooky and sparkly bits per second than ever before... plus a plethora of pre-show treats and activities to make it a festive night out for the whole family.

Participate in the Lunar New Year through storytelling, dance, embroidery, music and the customary courtship ritual of ball tossing at Safeco Insurance Festál: Hmong New Year Celebration, Nov. 7, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., at Center House.

In what the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Artistic Director Bill Rauch and Executive Director Paul Nicholson can only describe as amazing, OSF's 2009 season results have exceeded all expectations. Initially anticipating a slump in the 2009 season attendance and revenue, the Festival closed with record attendance of 410,034 (89% of capacity), and record revenues of $17,098,115.

Safeco Insurance Festál: Dia de Muertos - A Mexican Celebration to Remember Our Departed features brilliant sand painting, community altars, sugar skulls, special foods, candles and acclaimed Mexican artists, Oct. 31, 12 noon - 8 p.m., and Nov. 1, 12 noon - 6 p.m., at Center House.

Safeco Insurance Festál: Dia de Muertos - A Mexican Celebration to Remember Our Departed features brilliant sand painting, community altars, sugar skulls, special foods, candles and acclaimed Mexican artists, Oct. 31, 12 noon - 8 p.m., and Nov. 1, 12 noon - 6 p.m., at Center House.

Whether you are landed gentry, a common farmer, or a young lady with no parents or prospects, Miss Emma Woodhouse of Highbury will be sure to put you in your place-matrimonially or otherwise. Jane Austen's Emma plays on Book-It Repertory Theatre's stage at the Center House Theatre October 20- November 22.

Folk dances, a fashion show, Turkish music, shadow puppetry, art and textiles, Turkish foods and more celebrate the multiple cultures that link modern Turkey to the East and West at Safeco Insurance Festál: TurkFest - Turkish Cultural Festival, Oct. 17, 12 noon - 7:30 p.m., and Oct. 18, 12 noon - 6 p.m. at Center House and Fisher Pavilion Roof.

Participate in the Lunar New Year through storytelling, dance, embroidery, music and the customary courtship ritual of ball tossing at Safeco Insurance Festál: Hmong New Year Celebration, Nov. 7, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., at Center House.

Folk dances, a fashion show, Turkish music, shadow puppetry, art and textiles, Turkish foods and more celebrate the multiple cultures that link modern Turkey to the East and West at Safeco Insurance Festál: TurkFest - Turkish Cultural Festival, Oct. 17, 12 noon - 7:30 p.m., and Oct. 18, 12 noon - 6 p.m. at Center House and Fisher Pavilion Roof.

Safeco Insurance Festál: Dia de Muertos - A Mexican Celebration to Remember Our Departed features brilliant sand painting, community altars, sugar skulls, special foods, candles and acclaimed Mexican artists, Oct. 31, 12 noon - 8 p.m., and Nov. 1, 12 noon - 6 p.m., at Center House.

Whether you are landed gentry, a common farmer, or a young lady with no parents or prospects, Miss Emma Woodhouse of Highbury will be sure to put you in your place-matrimonially or otherwise. Jane Austen's Emma plays on Book-It Repertory Theatre's stage at the Center House Theatre October 20- November 22.

Book-It Repertory Theatre proudly presents A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Adapted and directed by Mary Machala

Folk dances, a fashion show, Turkish music, shadow puppetry, art and textiles, Turkish foods and more celebrate the multiple cultures that link modern Turkey to the East and West at Safeco Insurance Festál: TurkFest - Turkish Cultural Festival, Oct. 17, 12 noon - 7:30 p.m., and Oct. 18, 12 noon - 6 p.m. at Center House and Fisher Pavilion Roof.

Acclaimed folk dance ensembles, musicians and visiting artists, children and visitors celebrate Croatia and highlight the history and regional contributions of Croatian Americans at Safeco Insurance Festál: CroatiaFest, Oct. 4, 12 noon - 8 p.m., at Center House.

Portland Center Stage invites you meet one of America's unlikeliest Ben Franklin scholars, monologist and fringe theater performer Josh Kornbluth, as he loses some hair and gains a fresh perspective on the costs of independence, the meaning of revolution and the vagaries of Founding Fatherhood in Ben Franklin: Unplugged. Ben Franklin: Unplugged previews on Tuesday September 29th, opens on Friday, October 2nd and runs through November 22, 2009. Tickets start at $24, with student and under 30 discounts available. Rush tickets for Ben Franklin: Unplugged are $20. 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.