http://www.pcs.org This is Your Blog On Theater Fri, 09 May 2008 19:07:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.pcs.org/blog/fubar/ {Rose Riordan} Department: Artistic Position: Associate Artistic Director Hometown: Anchorage, Alaska What do you love and/or miss about your hometown? tinfoil on bedroom windows to keep out the sun at midnite. When you were young what did you want to be when you grew up? a single stewardess with man troubles. Favorite part of your job: ... http://www.pcs.org/blog/employee-profile-rose-riordan/   {Robert Welsh} Department: Production Position: Technical director Hometown: Elementary school, Auburn, CA; Junior High, Altus, OK; High School, Boulder City, NV. What do you love and/or miss about your hometown? Playing in the woods and in the creek behind our house in Auburn. When you were young what did you want to be when you ... http://www.pcs.org/blog/employee-profile-robert-welsh/ {Chris Coleman} Position: Artistic Director  Hometown: Atlanta, GA What do you love and/or miss about your hometown? Spring.  When it explodes (usually mid-march), the city is awash in pollen – but also an explosion of flowers and blooms.   Wild parties:  definitely a party town.  When you were young what did you want to be ... http://www.pcs.org/blog/employee-profile-chris-coleman/ The bonnet worn by the Sisters of Charity in our production of Doubt is atypical of what we think of nuns wearing. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) started the first religious community of apostolic women founded in the United States. She was canonized in 1975 and is the first native born ... http://www.pcs.org/blog/sisters-of-charity/ We just completed our second week of rehearsal for Doubt. The first week was spent at the table wrapping our brains around all kinds of questions: faith vs reason, what do we really believe versus what we were taught to believe, who were we in 1964 - how does ... http://www.pcs.org/blog/doubt-in-1964/ {Diane (Antoinette LaVecchia) pours on the charm to seal a deal on behalf of her client in The Little Dog Laughed.} So The Little Dog Laughed is finally up and running - and if our first four audiences are an indication - we are in for a wild, wild ride.  First ... http://www.pcs.org/blog/and-the-dog-barks/ YOU'RE INVITED! Please join us for the Vera Katz Park Dedication & Community Celebration We’re closing the street to celebrate! Please join us for a community event celebrating the Honorable Vera Katz featuring a tribal blessing, music and dance, your favorite food carts and complimentary beer from Deschutes Brewery, our new neighbor. The ... http://www.pcs.org/blog/communitycelebration/ Ali Ippolito (of Heroes and Villians, Nick Jaina fame) writes music with a haunting poetry and quiet authority that simultaneously tugs, pulls, coaxes, vexes, and inspires. A mezmerizing singer, Ippolito accompanies herself on piano, accordion, and the curious banjolele, giving us fading, sepia-tinged sonic postcards of love and loss. Her ... http://www.pcs.org/blog/first-thursday-music-ali-ippolito/ It's still raining outside, but it is beginning to heat up inside the studio theater. We moved downstairs last night for technical rehearsals for The Little Dog Laughed. There were all these cool hipsters pouring into the building as we came in (we started at 5:00 pm) and after nosing ... http://www.pcs.org/blog/little-dogs-onstage/