Little Mizz Fizziwig is now contentedly holding daily court in the Production Manager’s office.  Christine Siltanen interrupted her little black tabby majesty’s nap (so necessary after a busy morning supervising the production staff!) to snap this photo, so her expression doesn’t really convey her personality, which is very, very sweet.  We’re still thinking she may [...]

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Maybe she thought the building needed a mouser. Perhaps she thought a theater company that was producing A Christmas Carol was a good place for a little feline named Fizziwig (sic). But, for whatever reason (and we really can’t think of a good one), someone abandoned their cat here at PCS last week.

When the cat [...]

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{photo: Julianna Jaffee makes quite the entrance in 2007’s A Christmas Carol.}
In the brief bit of quiet after the creative flurry of the JAW festival (well, quiet if you don’t count the clash of steel and violent cries coming from the students in the Stage Combat class), there comes the occasional yelp from the Development [...]

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It’s nearly the end of our fiscal year, as well as our season, so we were certainly happy to receive several grants recently from local and national foundations. Here’s a hearty “thank you!” to:

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, for its $75,000 grant in support PCS’s world premiere of Sometimes A Great Notion;

The [...]

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A member of the troupe SloMo performs at the Community Day Celebration for the Armory’s opening last fall. (Photo: Lee Ann Gauthier)
Portland Center Stage has been awarded a $200,000 grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation which will be used to support our community-focused artistic programming over the next three years.
This [...]

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