school & student programs || adult education programs || theater & business classes || teen council & summer intensives || internships
Portland Center Stage is one of the 25 largest theater companies in the nation. Our strong commitment to education and outreach has resulted in a growing array of activities tailored to students, teachers and other interested patrons.
• To book tickets for your school group or for more information on education program participation, please email education@pcs.org or call 503.445.3793.
2009/10 Stage Door Program Sponsor
School and Student Programs
The art of theater has an important role to play in helping young people learn and grow into successful adults. Numerous research studies have found that students involved in drama/theater activities not only show improved reading comprehension and oral communication skills, but also demonstrate growth in self-control, collaboration, self-acceptance, empathy, and social tolerance. Our education programs seek to provide young people with opportunities to experience and directly participate in the art of theater. Such opportunities are especially important now, since funding cutbacks in public education budgets throughout Oregon have seen in-school drama programs seriously reduced. For 2009/10, PCS education programs for youth include:
Stage Door: A program to provide schools with group tickets to our productions, resource guides, after show Q&As, and pre-show student workshops.
Visions & Voices: A playwriting residency program in Portland area High Schools.
Summer Teen Intensives: Professional summer theater training for teens.
Teen Council: A group of Portland area teens who work to further their involvement with the theatre community, create opportunities for advanced theater experiences, and serve as ambassadors to their peers.
Adult Education Programs include:
Theater and Business classes at Portland Center Stage offer unique theater training and related studies for people at all degrees of involvement with the living stage. Our courses are taught by exceptional teachers drawn from Portland’s diverse community of talented professionals, many of whom are familiar to you from PCS’s productions and programs. Improve your presentation and communication skills by enrolling in our Art of Business sequence, or unleash your inner dramatist by joining a Playwriting course. Take the stage in one of our Acting classes, or delve into dance with a Dance Styles course. Whether you’re honing skills you already have or nurturing new ones, PCS has a class for you.
Prologues and Q&A’s: PCS Prologues are free, pre-performance introductions to the plays led by PCS staff members and associates. Join us on most Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 6:50-7:10 pm. Prologues will be held in the back of the Main Stage auditorium and are available for Main Stage productions only.
Q&As are informal conversations with the cast and PCS staff about the production, following every Thursday noon matinee performance. Please note, there will be no Q&As for A Christmas Carol.
Resource Guides: Resource guides for each production are available for downloading through this web site. Each guide includes character descriptions, a synopsis and other relevant information of use to educators, students and interested patrons.
PCS’s 2009/10 Education Outreach Programs are generously supported by:
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Wells Fargo
Regional Arts & Culture Council and Work for Art
Hoover Family Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation
with additional funding from:
Autzen Foundation
BWF Foundation
Sue Horn-Caskey and Rick Caskey
and the
H.W. & D.C.H. Irwin Foundation
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For more information or to participate in one of our education programs, call 503.445-3793 or email education@pcs.org
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