Portland Center Stage » trishap http://www.pcs.org This is Your Blog on Theater Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:09:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Your New Ringtone http://www.pcs.org/your-new-ringtone/ http://www.pcs.org/your-new-ringtone/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:08:36 +0000 trishap http://www.pcs.org/?p=7312 ebbe3Your phone just got more festive thanks to our new FREE Carol inspired downloadable ringtones. Each tone has a bit of Carol-ian music plus the voice of this year’s Scrooge, Ebbe Roe Smith. It’s instant holiday cheer (or tongue-in-cheek Humbuggish snark, depending on your personal holiday philosophy).

Choose from Traditional, Hip Hop, and my favorite CALYPSO CAROL version.

Download yours right here.

]]> http://www.pcs.org/your-new-ringtone/feed/ 0 Take a Break from your Post-Thanksgiving Shopping Marathon at Our Holiday Oasis at the Armory http://www.pcs.org/holidayoasis/ http://www.pcs.org/holidayoasis/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:49:07 +0000 trishap http://www.pcs.org/?p=7293 holiday oasis{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 Thanksgiving Weekend? On Saturday, November 28th we invite you to take a break mid-marathon and join us for a relaxing Holiday Oasis at the Armory- you can pick up A Christmas Carol tickets at half price* when you show a Pearl District shopping receipt, cross some theater (and cupcake!) lovers off of your shopping list, and spend some precious moments rejuvenating with a FREE chair massage, a cocktail and the soothing sounds of our Holiday Jazz Trio.

Bring the kids and they can get their photo taken by our production photographer Owen Carey in our Victorian Family Photo Booth and then enjoy some free hot chocolate and some holiday cartoons on our big screen while you check out the offerings at the cafe.

cratchet family outtake webready{photo: The Cratchit Family Photo Outtake. photo by Owen Carey.}

Here’s some of what we’ve got planned:

FREE Victorian Family Photo Booth. 11 am to 3 pm.
Dress the family up in their finest and get your holiday photo taken in front of our Victorian backdrop by professional photographer Owen Carey. We’ll email you the picture- feel free to use it in your holiday e-cards!

FREE Live Holiday Jazz. 1 pm to 4 pm and 5 pm to 7 pm.
Chill out to the jazzier holiday classics from the Dan Gaynor Trio from 1 pm to 4 pm and the soulful stylings of Ali Ippolito from 5 pm to 7 pm.

FREE 15 minute Chair Massages. Prep for the next leg of your shopping marathon with a quick chair massage from professional massage therapist <XX>.

FREE Package Check. 11 am to 7 pm. Don’t want to make the trip back to the car? Check your holiday packages at the Armory Coat Check. We’ll keep an eye on them till you get the car pulled around.

Kids Colouring Lounge. 11 am to 7 pm.We’ll have A Christmas Carol themed Colouring Activities and Holiday Movies on the big screen TV for the kids to chill out with. They can redeem their completed coloring activity for a complimentary cup of hot cocoa from the Armory Cafe.

Holiday Themed Treats at the Armory Cafe. All day long we’ll be serving post-Thanksgiving holiday treats, including Turkey/cream cheese/cranberry sandwiches, harvest salads, mulled cider, and a whole bevvy of holiday cocktails at the upstairs bar.

Hot Deals on A Christmas Carol. Show your Pearl District shopping receipt at the box office and get 2 for 1 adult tickets to A Christmas Carol. Choose a performance before December 7th and tickets are $15 for kids and $30 for adults- a family of four could see the show for just $60 TOTAL if they show a Pearl District shopping receipt on Saturday!

Great Green Gifts for Everyone on Your List. Give the gift of experience this holiday season for a LEED Platinum certified holiday experience. Give PCS Gift Certificates and you can double the value of your certificate purchase when you mention the PDX Green Gift Guide.

Instant Gratification Giving: Our Sweetness and Spotlight gift package includes a pair of tickets to any PCS performance plus a dozen cupcakes from Cupcake Jones for just $75. Buy yours on Saturday and walk away with a complimentary cupcake for yourself (while supplies last).

What are you waiting for? Marshall the troupes and make a day of it! We look forward to helping make your downtown holiday shopping a bit more enjoyable this Thanksgiving weekend.

]]> http://www.pcs.org/holidayoasis/feed/ 0 The Printed Word Comes to The Armory Starting Thursday http://www.pcs.org/the-printed-word-comes-to-the-armory-starting-thursday/ http://www.pcs.org/the-printed-word-comes-to-the-armory-starting-thursday/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:26:02 +0000 trishap http://www.pcs.org/?p=7116 Franklin Print 3Ben 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 to create a series of special art-quality prints in honor of the man and inspired by the aphorisms of the Almanack.

They’ve been arriving into the building all week and the results have been beautiful, thought provoking, and so tactile…in each case the direct interaction of plate with paper is clearly visible. Today’s digital printing may be speedy, high resolution and efficient, but it sure doesn’t have the sheer tactile pleasures of a letterpress.

This cell phone photo does not even remotely do it justice, but just to give you a sense of the creativity being brought to the project:

Franlin Print 2

The exhibit will be up in the Armory’s lower lobbies throughout November and December, but this week we are hosting two very special events to kick things off on a celebratory note.

Join us Thursday, November 5th from 5 pm to 7 pm for a First Thursday reception where you can browse the work and then head off on further Pearl District gallery adventures (or stay and see the show that inspired the exhibit, Ben Franklin: Unplugged, at 7:30 pm).

Or bring the kids on Saturday, November 7th from 10 am to 1 pm for a Letterpress Fair and Demonstration in the Armory Lobby. In addition to browsing the exhibit, you’ll get to see a demonstration of a working letterpress, a short film about the last letterpress edition of the NY Times, and meet many of the PDX letterpress printers at work here in Portland. Afterwards, stay for the 2:00 pm matinee performance of Ben Franklin: Unplugged.

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{photo: Honeycomb cotton tent dress by Emily Ryan Designs. View more of Ryan’s work at the Fashion Collective show on Monday, Oct. 12.}

The town was aflutter this weekend as book nerds and fashionistas battled it out for the coolest parties during Wordstock and Portland Fashion Week.

We’re particularly delighted to be hosting the last of the Fashion-oriented events tonight at the Armory- an independent show by three local designers including our own Fuschia Lin, the “First Hand” in our costume department and an intensely talented designer in her own right.

The red carpet and runway are already set up in the lobby and have me already salivating for a new frock from Emily Ryan designs…maybe with some artfully exotic cuffs or a cape from Fuschia’s collection:

fuschia lin

You can join in the glamour and excitement tonight for $10 at the door. Here’s all the details:

Fashion Collective Show
When: Monday, Oct. 12
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Gerding Theater at the Armory, Portland Center Stage, 128 N.W. 11th Ave.; 503-445-3700.
Tickets: $8 in advance at Idom; $10 at the door

]]> http://www.pcs.org/fashion-week-saved-the-best-for-last-tonight-at-the-armory/feed/ 0 You’re Invited- to the National Theater LIVE http://www.pcs.org/youre-invited-to-the-national-theater-live/ http://www.pcs.org/youre-invited-to-the-national-theater-live/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:20:38 +0000 trishap http://www.pcs.org/?p=6924 All's_Well_poster_imageThose of you with dreams (or fond memories) of traveling to London to see world-class theatre will soon be able to have that experience right here at home.Third Rail Repertory Theatre is participating in NT Live, a series of live-captured, high-definition broadcasts of performances from London’s National Theatre. NT Live is similar to the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series The Met: Live in HD. Third Rail’s participation in NT Live marks the first time these screenings will be available in Portland.

On Saturday, October 24th at 2pm and 7pm, at the World Trade Center Theatre, Third Rail be showing high-definition live-captured presentations of William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, directed by Marianne Elliot.

Tickets for these screenings are $20. Don’t miss out on this rare chance to be part of a truly global theatrical experience. For reservations go right here or call 503-235-1101.

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