For starters, tonight we kick off Envisioning America: Jews and the Broadway Musical, our season-long partnership with the Mittelman Jewish Community Center (and supporting partner, the Multnomah Public Library) at how Jewish artists contributed to the genesis and growth of that singular American art form, the Broadway Musical.
Tonight, tape the debate and come listen [...]

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Live, local First Thursday music by some of indie Portland pop’s finest returns to the Armory this week with GREY ANNE–a captivating, seductively sardonic, lyrical talent imbued with a high-thread count of deadpan whimsy (imagine, if you can,  the musical progeny of Buck Henry and Blythe Danner).  Music kicks off in the Main Lobby from [...]

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Do you ever wonder what happens here at the Armory when no one’s looking and the season hasn’t started?
Sometimes we have parties, fundraisers and scavenger hunts and sometimes we do really wild things like invite our friends at  Cascadia Green Building Council to get jiggy with lectures on thermal mass energy storage technologies and super [...]

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One of the many exciting things I love about the work we do at is Portland Center Stage is the way in which the art on the stage triggers layer upon layer of ideas for conversation and engagement.
That might mean people hanging out in the lobby arguing over the “did-he/didn’t-he” of Doubt; or maybe a [...]

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Once upon a time, the occasion of Theater produced a ripple effect, a buzz that created paroxysmal waves of civically valuable debate and engagement. No, really.
These days we may call it with funny names like Community Outreach, but if we take a trip in the Theater Wayback Machine to ancient Greece, we’ll discover a savage [...]

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