If you haven’t had a chance to check out our monthly readings, now is the time. We have only two more scheduled before we break for JAW, and this script will help get you into the JAW spirit. By the way, JAW turns 10 this year!
 
Portland Center Stage’s

NOW HEAR THIS

invites you to a […]

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Remember when PCS did ANOTHER FINE MESS? Well come check out what Steven Drukman’s up to now. This Saturday as part of our reading series NOW HEAR THIS we will be reading a never before seen play. Below is some more information. Hope to see you there!!
Portland Center Stage’s
NOW HEAR THIS
invites you to a concert […]

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Did you see MARIE ANTOINETTE during JAW this past year? Well if you did not, you can still make up for it by attending NOW HEAR THIS on March 29th at noon. This month we are reading THE EVILDOERS by the same guy who wrote MARIE ANTOINETTE…the oh so talented David Adjmi…and cute right? David […]

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{Brooke Bloom as Amanda Blue in Sarah Treem’s A Feminine Ending. photo by Henry DiRocco}
It seems like forever since we closed The Underpants (aaaargh and the accidental jokes continue!!) downstairs in the Studio last fall. We’re ready to bring life and energy back into that little black box of ours with a play that’s […]

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Come one and come all to hear a reading by playwright Jason Grote this December 29th at Noon on the Mezzanine. (Please see below for more information.)
Sorry, had to get the plug in before you lost interest…now on with the fun. Last month Portland Center Stage started a monthly reading series called NOW HEAR THIS. […]

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Favorite three moments of Saturday’s JAW (Just Add Water):
Liminal Performance Group’s “Static Theater” piece staged around the main doors of the building. A variety of people attached and unattached physically, split up by musicians riffing off of one another in slow mo. It sounds dull – but somehow the suspension of their mental and physical […]

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Just finished watching this crazy kickoff of the big JAW weekend: Susan Lori Parks (Pulitzer Prize Winner for Top Dog Underdog) wrote a play a day for a year, and theaters around the world have been finding interesting ways to mount them.
Several local theater (and dance) companies collaborated with us to mount a week’s worth […]

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Our second annual “Commission! Commission!” event happened on Friday the 13th with about 70 people in attendance. The spontaneous eruption of creativity is a fundraiser for JAW and kicked off the ten day festival with appropriate vigor and irreverence.
13 playwrights from around the country put themselves on the auction block (including Bridget Carpenter, staff writer […]

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