BRAVO Youth Orchestra Pre-Show Concert
Join us for an In the Heights pre-show reception and performance featuring Portland-based BRAVO Youth Orchestras. Enjoy this special showcase of youth orchestral musicians as they display their talents as a collaborative and supportive community.
Bravo Youth Orchestra works to transform the lives of underserved youth through intensive orchestral music instruction emphasizing collaboration, promoting self-confidence, and creating a community where children thrive.
Inspired by El Sistema in Venezuela, Bravo Youth Orchestra aims to establish a network of youth orchestras for social change serving both urban and rural communities with a high concentration of poverty in Oregon.
Current & Upcoming
The Great Leap
From the acclaimed playwright of Cambodian Rock Band! San Francisco. 1989. Basketball standout Manford Lum is a fast-talking, dominating teenager on the street courts of Chinatown. But when he elbows his way onto a college team traveling to Beijing for a “friendship” game, the outcome isn’t what anyone expects. Lauren Yee uses her father’s basketball heroics and the student-led demonstrations that rocked the world as a springboard for this moving story that keeps the tension rising right up until the final buzzer. A co-production with Artists Repertory Theatre.
Photography Exhibit: Like the Brightest Star by Tom Lupton
Tom Lupton's Like the Brightest Star is a photography exhibit for "the misfits and the losers and the rock and rollers." Based on the final song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the exhibit celebrates the struggle, victory, and transcendence of duality.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Brilliantly innovative, moving, and wickedly funny, this genre-bending, fourth-wall-smashing musical sensation tells the story of one of the most unique characters to ever hit the stage. Hedwig, a German emigrant, is out to set the record straight about her life, her loves, and the operation that left her with that “angry inch.” Part rock concert, part cabaret, part stand-up comedy routine, this one-of-a-kind musical proves time and again that an indomitable spirit can’t ever be tied down.
Improvisation Classes for Beginners
Whether you're looking to get more confident in social situations, think quicker on your feet, or get in touch with your imaginative side, this once-a-month improv class will set you on the path to success! (One of four sessions.)
Gallery Exhibit: Works by Arvie Smith
Explore this incredible collection of narrative storytelling work and portrait work that expresses "deep sympathy for the dispossessed and marginalized members of society in an unrelenting search for beauty, meaning, and equality." It will be on display through April 4, in support of our production of Gem of the Ocean.
Autobiographic Devising for Solo Performance with Katherine Murphy Lewis
This multi-session workshop for women (including trans women of course!) and femme-identified people uses physical exploration, research, writing, construction, and editing to develop new solo material and the tools to support the creation of future artistic visions. Ideal for theater makers and performers who want to reclaim agency over their creative lives — and anyone else who has a story to tell!
Portland Center Stage is committed to identifying & interrupting instances of racism & all forms of oppression, through the principles of inclusion, diversity, equity, & accessibility (IDEA).
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