{photo by Owen Carey: Stacia Fernandez as Miss Adelaide.}
Audiences at Portland Center Stage are not known for holding back. They’re vocal; they’re smart; they’re connected. So we wanted to know what they are saying about our opening production, Guys & Dolls; particularly, what they are saying to their friends and colleagues.  We took a sampling of audience [...]

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For starters, tonight we kick off Envisioning America: Jews and the Broadway Musical, our season-long partnership with the Mittelman Jewish Community Center (and supporting partner, the Multnomah Public Library) at how Jewish artists contributed to the genesis and growth of that singular American art form, the Broadway Musical.
Tonight, tape the debate and come listen [...]

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Live, local First Thursday music by some of indie Portland pop’s finest returns to the Armory this week with GREY ANNE–a captivating, seductively sardonic, lyrical talent imbued with a high-thread count of deadpan whimsy (imagine, if you can,  the musical progeny of Buck Henry and Blythe Danner).  Music kicks off in the Main Lobby from [...]

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{photo: “Good ol’ reliable” Nathan Detroit (John Plumpis) just got a great review in today’s Oregonian (and so did sidekicks Todd A. Horman as Nicely-Nicely and Leif Norby as Benny Southstreet).}
The first smattering of reviews are in for Guys and Dolls and so far the response is overwhelmingly positive.
Oregonian scribe Marty Hughley describes Guys and [...]

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{photo: Miss Adelaide (Stacia Fernandez) and her Hot Box girls looking like they’re swooning with excitement (just like the rest of the theater) on the eve of our Opening Night!}
The theater is absolutely aflutter with last minute preparations for opening night.
The phones are lighting up thanks to some great preview coverage from the Oregonian [...]

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