{photo: Charles Dickens at his writing desk, preparing to write out his next 50,000 word meal ticket.}
Thanks to Patrick Alan Coleman over at the Mercury, we here at PCS were recently alerted to the fact that November first is the official start of National Novel Writing Month. There’s a great organization by the same name [...]

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Bust out your Liza Minelli costume because you are cordially invited to spend Halloween on Broadway with Portland Center Stage.
Dress up like your favorite Broadway character and get $10 tickets to the Halloween performance of Guys & Dolls or R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE. Then stay for the party and [...]

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{photo: A Revolutionary Shelter: Buckminster Fuller (Doug Tompos) regards one his most well known inventions, the geodesic dome.}
Here’s some snippets from what they’re saying about R.Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE:
The critics say:
“an excellent production, thought provoking and occasionally exhilarating” - The Portland Mercury
“Tompos gives [Bucky] a youthful bounce and ongoing optimism [...]

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For our press photo shoot for R. Buckminster Fuller:THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE, we had the opportunity to play with one of the lobby video projectors and some images from the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s photo archive.

This is Doug Tompos, the actor playing Bucky in the show, looking at a photo of one of [...]

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Once upon a time, the occasion of Theater produced a ripple effect, a buzz that created paroxysmal waves of civically valuable debate and engagement. No, really.
These days we may call it with funny names like Community Outreach, but if we take a trip in the Theater Wayback Machine to ancient Greece, we’ll discover a savage [...]

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