Ali Ippolito is back this week, TODAY (Saturday, Nov. 14) at 5 pm with Sweet Williams Ghost, the kind of luxurious music that lives in the dreamy recesses beneath the floorboards of roots-rich Americana. It features Ali with Dean Gorman (guitar, vocals) and Ben Cartwright (dobro, lap steel, guitar). And it’s damn fine. You’ll rarely [...]

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Join us THIS Sunday, following the 2 p.m. matinee of Josh Kornbluth’s Ben Franklin Unplugged for Formative Stages: Theater and the Life of the Mind, copresented with The Oregon Psychoanalytic Center.
For this installment, Dr. Nancy Winters will delve into issues of independence, family and parental disappointment, and self-reliance in Kornbluth’s play. Winters quipped that Kornbluth’s [...]

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SOUNDS. LIKE. PORTLAND, Music Millennium & PCS’s new early evening music showcase continues this Saturday (and every week) from 5-7 pm in the Lobby of the Gerding Theater. Free—and all ages.
For October, in conjunction with our production of Ragtime, we feature blues/ragtime guitar master Mary Flower, jazz-blues-gospel pianist extraordinaire Janice Scroggins +  Nafisaria Scroggins Thomas, [...]

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How do stories come to life in unexpected ways? Sometimes through very unexpected partnerships. And sometimes by just asking the right questions.
Like for example: how might the story of Ragtime illuminate salient truths and metaphors for homeless and at-risk youth in Portland?
One word that answers both questions is “empathy” – the ability to see [...]

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Portland Center Stage is excited to offer a Directing class taught by our own Associate Artistic Director, Rose Riordan. Rose is the award winning brilliant mind behind such PCS hits as The Thugs, The Pillowman, Doubt, Frost/Nixon and How To Dissapear . . . to name just a few.

Course dates: [...]

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