HAIR to Play Portland Center Stage Beginning Next Month
by Blair Ingenthron - Aug 26, 2023
Portland Center Stage will kick off their 2023-24 season with a spectacular high-energy musical that's all about community: directed by Isaac Lamb, HAIR begins preview performances on September 30, opens on October 6, and runs through November 5 on the mainstage.
Review: TICK, TICK...BOOM! at Portland Center Stage
by Krista Garver - Aug 31, 2022
Jonathan Larson's musical tells the story of an aspiring musical theatre writer having a quarter-life crisis. The reason to see this production in particular is Lauren Steele. A Drammy-winning actor (and also a massively talented singer-songwriter) with a powerhouse voice, Steele steals this show.
Jonathan Larson's TICK, TICK...BOOM! Comes to Portland Center Stage Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Jul 29, 2022
The work of Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning composer Jonathan Larson returns to Portland Center Stage after a 7-week run of his blockbuster musical Rent. Larson's autobiographical musical tick, tick … BOOM! was written before Rent and is in many ways its origin story. Featuring a similarly rocking score, it offers a backstage tour of the love and sweat Larson put into making his Broadway musical dreams a reality.
PCS's JAW New Play Festival Is Back in July
by Stephi Wild - Jun 17, 2022
Portland Center Stage's annual JAW New Play Festival returns July 22-24. JAW is PCS's week-long assembling of artists and audiences to create new plays.
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH Returns to Portland Center Stage
by Nicole Rosky - Dec 31, 2021
The Tony Award-winning glam rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch returns to Portland Center Stage after a sell-out run in 2020. Local powerhouses Delphon “DJ” Curtis Jr. and Ithica Tell return to blow the roof off The Armory’s Ellyn Bye Studio, in this bold take on the celebrated musical, directed by Chip Miller, PCS’s Associate Artistic Director.
New Musical Heads to 54 Below with Special Guest Lauren Pritchard
by Julie Musbach - Apr 16, 2018
FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Emily Esposito and friends in "I Hate New York: A Love Story" on Tuesday May 29th at 9:30pm. I Hate New York: A Love story is a jukebox musical written by Emily Esposito (Fame: National Tour) about what it's like to date in NYC. With music by Sara Bareilles, Pink, Ed Sheeran, and a wide array of other pop artists we are taken a journey of the horrors of online dating, dealing with exes, and the great phenomenon knows as ghosting. Have a few drinks, let loose, and rest assured that you are definitely not alone on this bumpy ride.
Photo Flash: Miracle Theatre Group's BOOMCRACKLEFLY
by Kelsey Denette - Mar 25, 2011
Three seemingly disparate stories weave together in a clever combination of science fiction and magical realism to create an eccentric environment that is as unsettling as it is irresistible. Presented in English. Written by Charise Castro Smith and directed by Olga Sanchez onstage March 25-April 16, 2011 at Milagro Theatre (525 SE Stark St., Portland).