Our front of house staff reports hearing this question almost every night- “It sounds beautiful, but where on earth do they put the orchestra??” Luckily, one of our orchestra members, John Nastos, is a blogger himself and has posted a fascinating piece that explains the logistics of having an offstage orchestra that can be [...]

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Moved onstage this afternoon.  A slooooow first session, what with trying to equalize 22 michrophones, and adjust to the period costumes, video monitors, audio monitors, sliding panels, and the general disorientation.

But also really fun to see what it’s going to look like.  Gavin (Coalhouse, above) is getting better at playing our imaginary piano, which is [...]

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Julie Vigeland, a longtime member of the Portland Center Stage board of directors who took a key role in raising money for the Gerding Theater project, has been appointed to the Oregon Arts Commission, the policy-setting and grant-making body on the Arts.
“It is more important than ever to support Oregon’s arts and culture organizations [...]

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Middle of our third week of Ragtime (can that be possible) and we should finish staging this evening.  It is a MOUNTAIN.  About four times more music than the other musicals we’ve tackled.  But it is also glorious.

The work has jumped back and forth between nitty gritty sessions with Rick Lewis on the music itself (has [...]

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So the cast of Ragtime finally arrived this past weekend, despite delays from hurricanes on the East Coast.  An enormous amount of music in the show (four times the size of the score for Guys and Dolls) so they’ve been buried wtih Rick Lewis for the first several days.

Gavin Gregory plays Coalhouse Walker, Jr. – [...]

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