Portland_Center_Stage

Portland Center Stage Portland Center Stage There stands a building at 1037 SW Broadway St in Portland, Oregon that produces some of the finest theatrical performances that I have ever been witness to. It is called the Newmark’s Portland Center Stage. On the sixteenth day of July 2001, I attended of a play entitled “A New Brain”. What a superb play this was, written by a very controversial playwright from the New York area by the name of James Newglove. This young man’s plays are generally not “picked up” as they say in the business well into their fourth month of availability because of their nature. Usually Newglove writes with a draw to realism. He finds himself not being appreciated for being great, though he is well aware that his shows have an average seventy two percent auditorium fill rate. The problem with theaters usually resides with the board of sponsers, who have a very strong say on whether plays ever see a curtain. During my research for this paper I found out that “A New Brain” also wasn’t picked up until the fifth month of availability because of its content. This play shows a period of time in the main character’s life, when portland, center, theater, new, play, because, two, shows, performance, pcs, being, wasn’t, time, stage, plays, performances, once, long, first, dollars, brain, years, very, tickets, sponsors, season, script, say, problem, plan, picked, performing, part, paper, out