{photo by Owen Carey. Eli Rosenbaum (Andy Hirsch, left) shows Arthur Rudolph (Christopher Shaw) the operational chart for Mittelwerk, the secret Nazi rocket factory, and asks him to initial his position in the chart while the ghost of Wernher von Braun (Russell Edge) waxes nostalgic for those Nazi good old days in Apollo.}
Tonight we’ve invited [...]

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Portland Center Stage presents
Eli M. Rosenbaum & Nancy Keystone: A Conversation
Friday, January 23, 6 pm
Gerding Theater at the Armory (Mezzanine)
The “Real” Eli M.Rosenbaum, director of the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations , joins Nancy Keystone, playwright/director of Apollo for a pre-show conversation on the actual events that inspired Apollo and Rosenbaum’s pivotal role [...]

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{photo by Owen Carey. The Apollo engineers calculate the impossible problems of thrust and velocity in Apollo.}
The calculations are done,the 3000 file boxes are folded and stacked, and the only thing left for Nancy to do is make sure her opening night togs are pressed and prepped.
Apollo world premieres tonight and the theater is a [...]

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Hard to believe it, but we have our first preview performance tomorrow night.  We’ve been “tech-ing” the show onstage since Wednesday, and our wondrous stage manager, Mark Tynan, the mind-blowing designers and the crackerjack crew have been doing a brilliant job bringing our baby to life. The environment of Apollo is an incredibly layered [...]

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I’m delighted to announce that Apollo playwright/director Nancy Keystone will be offering a masterclass on Saturday, January 24th from noon to 6:30 pm.
Here’s the details:
Divining/Directing/Performing workshop with Nancy Keystone
A Workshop for all Theater Artists
The invisible. How to render it visible? That is one way of describing the heady work of full-scale collaboration. This full-throttle [...]

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