Holiday Theater

Today we’ve got some more fun holiday events that will be happening in the Portland area during the holiday season!  Plan now so you won’t miss out on these wonderful family theater experiences!

Portland Center Stage will be putting on A Christmas Carol from Nov. 24 – Dec. 27th in the beautiful Gerding Theatre at the Armory, located at 128 NW Eleventh Avenue, Portland, OR 97209.

The Armory building, the last historic building to be rebuilt in The Pearl District Brewery Block, was originally built in 1891 by Multnomah County and was home to the Oregon National Guard.  It is a beautiful and historic building and a unique venue for a theater.

Already a Portland holiday tradition, this original adaptation by Mead Hunter asks the timely and reflective questions: What do you value most? And is it what’s truly important? At the holiday season, renew your answers to these essential questions alongside Tiny Tim, Ebenezer Scrooge and a sleigh full of ghosts and magical creatures as we remount this warm and engaging adaptation of the Dickens classic. In this version, Scrooge’s nephew Fred stands in for the spirit of the season, expressing what we all love about the story when he says to Scrooge; “[This] is a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.”

The show runs about 90 minutes – a perfect amount for those little ones!  Tickets can be purchased by visiting their website.

Center Stage offers high quality family entertainment in a beautiful and unique setting.

Taking place in their smaller, more intimate Ellen Bye Studio Theater is The Santaland Diaries.  This show runs from Dec. 3 to Dec. 27th.

Based on the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris’ experience as Crumpet the Elf in Macy’s Santaland display, this hilarious cult classic features comic encounters during the height of the holiday crunch. NPR humorist and best-selling author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. PCS brings a holiday favorite back to Portland as a special Studio Theater presentation.

“Priceless observations, both outrageous and subtle. Destined to hold a place in the annals of American humor writing.”
—The New York Times.

Be sure and schedule those holiday events now and get your tickets purchased.