GIVE TODAY
for your chance to win!
Today is another Big Give Day! When you give to Portland Playhouse through the Willamette Week Give Guide today, you'll be entered to win a Trek FX from Bike Gallery - and that's on top of a truck load of incentives from Give!Guide partners and a boat load of gifts from Portland Playhouse Plus, your gift will help get us to where we need to be - our goal of $15,000 will be matched by the Raymond Family Foundation.
IT IS OFFICIAL - HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
A Christmas Carol officially opened last night with a joyous performance from our cast, a raucous standing ovation from our audience and a festive cookies and cocoa reception complete with Christmas Ships! Thank you to all who made it such a spirited evening!
Todd Van Voris as Ebenezer Scrooge. Photo by Brud Giles.
Rachel Lewis and Eric Little. Photo by Brud Giles.
Margot Weaver and Julian Remulla. Photo by Brud Giles
Julian Remulla, Tina Mascaro, Sarah Smith, Kristopher Adams, Claire Rigsby. Photo by Brud Giles.
Going into this weekend, we have TWO sold out performances on Friday and Saturday night, and many future performances are filling up fast, so if you haven't booked your tickets to this Dickensian dose of holiday spirit, do so soon.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
If you'd like to see the show for free, we could use a few good volunteers as we get closer to Christmas. This is a wonderful opportunity for a families with older children to make a day of helping out our front of house staff and then seeing the show together.

If you are interested, please contact our Front of House Manager Anna Brown.
You're invited to Gather and Give Happy Hour
on December 14

Love the arts? Biking? Supporting local youth? Creating green spaces?

Join us in the Vestas lobby for free beer, wine, and snacks, and learn about four organizations working to build a better Portland:   Portland PlayhouseDepaveCommunity Cycling Center, and  Camp Fire Columbia.

Plus, give through the Willamette Week Give!Guide at the event and get entered to win (drum roll, please...)
* Waterproof bike messenger Black Star Bag
* Your choice of a Camp Namanu Package
* * Two season tickets to Portland Playhouse
& more from the Trail Blazers, Naomi's Organics, and Red Castle Board Games!

Find out more on the Facebook Event Page. We look forward to seeing you there!
DON'T FORGET! You can automatically double the impact of your gift when you donate to Portland Playhouse – just donate the same amount to the Oregon Cultural Trust and take that amount off of your state taxes.

Learn more at  culturaltrust.org.
APPRENTICES AROUND TOWN
This week you can catch three of our former apprentices on Portland stages.
Quinlan Fitzgerald stars in the 2016 Tony Award Winner for Best Play, The Humans, at Artists Repertory Theatre, Alex Ramirez de Cruz reimagines Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre in Pericles Wet for Portland Shakes, and Amy Katrina Bryan rocks the stage at Imago Theatre in Hotel Gone.

Learn more about all three on our Apprentices Around Town page.
THANK YOU  
The 2017-2018 season is presented by Harold Goldstein & Carol Streeter and Ronni Lacroute 

Our work is made possible by Mary & Don Blair, Ellyn Bye, Colas Construction, The Collins Foundation, Joel Hamberg Painting, Greg Hinckley & Mary Chomenko, Kinsman Foundation, Lagunitas Brewing Company, ME Fitness, James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust, Oregon Community Foundation, Roy & Diane Marvin Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation, James B Wiley Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation, Raymond Family Foundation, SERA Architects, Judy Shih & Joel Axelrod, State of Oregon, In Memory of Phyllis L. Weaver, Steve & Elsie Weaver,
Wrather Family Foundation, Friends of Sandra Zickefoose
 

Our work is supported by Oregon Cultural Trust
Thanks to the Regional Arts & Culture Council, including support from the City of Portland, Multnomah County and the Arts Education & Access Fund.
Portland Playhouse receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.