Portland Center Stage is committed to providing access to all patrons. The Newmark and Winningstad Theatres of the Portland Center for the Performing Arts are completely accessible. If you have questions, special requests, or suggestions that could improve your experience at the theater, contact the Box Office at 503/274-6588, fax 503/228-7058 or email Helen Fey Maze, at helenfeym@pcs.org.
Sign Interpreted performances for the deaf and hard-of-hearing are offered during one Thursday noon Matinee and one Friday 8 pm performance of each production (see schedule below). A sign-interpreted Question and Answer session follows Thursday's signed matinee. Scripts are also available on loan with advance notice.
To order tickets, call the Box Office at 503/274-6588 (voice) or through the Oregon Relay Service at 800/735-2900 (TTY), Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am until one hour before curtain. Tickets may also be purchased by emailing helenfeym@pcs.org. Tickets for Deaf or Hard of Hearing patrons and their companions are $14. All tickets are subject to availability, so please place your order and requests as early as possible.
ANOTHER FINE MESS Next Stage/Winningstad Theatre
Interpreted Performances: Thursday, October 9, 2003 Noon Matinee with Q&A following
Friday, October 10, 2003 8 pm curtain
Interpreted by: Julie Gebron and Heather White
First there was Flesh and Blood, then there was Outrage, and now...
ANOTHER FINE MESS, a world premiere production developed right here at Portland Center Stage, fresh from the Just Add Water/West playwrights festival. This time, theater itself is the play's metaphor - for the state of the union and the human condition - as four actors prepare backstage to go on. But go on to what, exactly? Existential angst collides with vaudeville in this riotously absurd comedy in the tradition of Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis.
By Steven Drukman
Directed by Cliff Fannin Baker
BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL Main Stage/Newmark Theatre
Interpreted Performances: Thursday, November 13, 2003 Noon Matinee with Q&A following
Friday, November 14, 2003 8 pm curtain
Interpreted by: Eileen Hendrickson and Jean A. Miller
PORTLAND,OR. Scientists and cultural patrons alike claim to have made an astonishing discovery: a "bat boy" living on the stage of Portland's venerable Newmark Theatre. The strange creature has enormous ambereyes that enable him to see in the dark and oversized ears that work like radar! Even stranger, Portland Center Stage Director Chris Coleman says that while the boy usually communicates in high-pitched squeaks and squeals, he also has an amazing singing voice. "I hardly know what to make of it," said the flustered thespian. "He appears to e human but he is unlike any other human I've ever seen. His eyes are twice as big as they should be and his ears are like satellite dishes. This boy clearly belongs to a race of people who, though artistically inclined, are forced to live miles beneath the Earth's surface."
"This strange little boy might bery well lead us to a world within a world," said Coleman. "No matter what happens, he's going to change the way we think about mankind, evolution and staged musical entertainment forever."
Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming
Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe
Directed by Chris Coleman
THE SANTALAND DIARIES with A CHRISTMAS MEMORY Mainstage/Newmark Theatre
Interpreted Performances: Thursday, December 18, 2003 Noon Matinee with Q&A following
Friday, December 19, 2003 8 pm curtain
Interpreted by Jean A. Miller and Judith M. Webb
THE SANTALAND DIARIES and A CHRISTMAS MEMORY offer up two opposing perspectives on the holiday season. In Santaland, by noted humorist David Sedaris, an aspiring acotr is forced to take a job as one of Santa's elves at Macy's department store. From this often humiliating perspective the author provides a hilarious and quite sardonic take on the the modern state of Christmas.
A Christmas Memory, written in rich, beautiful language by Truman Capote, is the tale of a young boy and his elderly relative living in the rural south as they anxiously await their favorite day of the year.
The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Directed by Neel Keller
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Main Stage/Newmark Theatre
Interpreted Performances: Thursday, January 29, 2004 Noon Matinee with Q&A following
Friday, January 30, 2004 8 pm curtain
Interpreted by Judith M. Webb and Julie Gebron
The American debut by internationally aclaimed Hungarian director, Robert Alfoldi, is a shockingly provocative verson of Shakespeare's classic like you've never seen before. There is disco. There is violence. There is hard-hitting social commentary. And there is lots and lots of sexual innuendo. A pound of flesh, indeed.
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Robert Alfoldi
36 VIEWSMain Stage/Newmark Theatre
Interpreted Performances: Thursday, February 26, 2004 Noon Matinee with Q&A following
Friday, February 27, 2004 8 pm curtain
Interpreted by Erika Petersen and Eileen Hendrickson
In art, as in love, it takes a keen eye to tell the real thing from a well-crafted counterfeit. But what makes something real? when a magnificent Japanese pillow book is discovered, the characters, artist and art dealer alike, are plunged into a complex web of romance and deceit. This mysterious, visually stunning play by one of the most admired female Asian American writers today, incorporates elements of kabuki theater and set designs inspired by the Japanese board game GO.
By Naomi Iizuka
Directed by Chay Yew
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Main Stage/Newmark Theatre
Interpreted Performances: Thursday, March 25, 2004 Noon Matinee with Q&A following
Friday, March 26, 2004 8 pm curtain
Interpreted by Heather White and Erika Petersen
Daddy hates Mommy. Daddy hates older son. Daddy likes younger alcoholic son which makes older non-alcoholic son jealous and resentful. Also, younger son refuses to have sex with his wife. Oh, and there are no cats.
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Chris Coleman
FULLY COMMITTED Next Stage/Winningstad Theatre
Interpreted Performances: Thursday, April 29, 2004 Noon Matinee with Q&A following
Friday, April 30, 2004 8 pm curtain
Interpreted by TBA
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Mr. Jones: Yes, I'd like to order tickets for the sidesplitting, Off-Broadway smash comedy, FULLY COMMITTED.
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Mr. Johnson: Yes, FULLY COMMITTED, the hilarious one-man play about a harried reservations manager working in a chi-chi New York restaurant, featuring the original Off-Broadway star, Mark Setllock? I'd like to order two tickets.
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By Becky Mode
Directed and Performed by Mark Setlock
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