The Drammy Awards are always a great party, but this year Portland Center Stage had the distinct pleasure of being able to congratulate 12 artists from this season who took home Drammy awards for everything from best supporting role in a musical to best lighting design.
Check out the local coverage from the Oregonian and Willamette [...]

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{Storm Large as Sally Bowles in Cabaret. photo by Owen Carey}
Cabaret opened at Geva Theatre in Rochester, NY this past weekend, and so far, the public and critical response has been nothing short of, well, phenomenal. For starters, we’re told (but we don’t have pictures of this yet) that those “polar bear” Rochesterians [...]

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The high was 14 degrees the first day we landed in Rochester for Cabaret rehearsals at Geva Theater. Geva was one of the theaters we studied closely when designing the Armory, as it is also housed in a renovated Armory building.

The theater is configured differently than the Gerding, in that the stage thrusts out [...]

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{Sally Bowles (Storm Large) and Kit Kat Boy, Hans (Luke Longacre) in “Mein Herr” from Cabaret.}
As the Portland run of Cabaret comes to a close, the cast prepares for our transfer to Geva Theater in Rochester, NY just after the New Year. Next week we load up trucks with the sets, costumes and props and [...]

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I was a little nervous about hosting school groups to CABARET, but all of them had a great time and we have received nothing but positive responses from both teachers and students. Well, almost nothing but positive. I received thank you cards and letters from one of our high school groups the other [...]

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