The mission of BroadArts Theatre is to create artistic events that celebrate the impact women and minorities make as we all work together to create a more equal, peaceful, compassionate and just society.
BroadArts is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization and donations are tax deductible.
We are supported in part by the City of Portland VisionPDX Project, the Kinsman Foundation, the McKenzie River Gathering Foundation, the Polk Family Trust, and your generous donations!
The mission of BroadArts Theatre is to create artistic events that celebrate the impact women and minorities make as we all work together to create a more equal, peaceful, compassionate and just society.
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Aung San Suu Kyi? Wangari Maathai? Mairead Corrigan Maguire? Bonnie Tinker? Who are these mystery women? Why are their spirits appearing at the same place, at the same time, at the beginning of the world's turning? And what does their presence have to do with me?
BroadArts Theatre invites you to solve the mystery at A/BROAD FOR ALL SEASONS, our newest original theatre-comedy with music.
If you saw WONDERBROADS, our musical that won the Oregon Book Award for Best Drama, then you are familiar with the energy and fun of our shows. In this sequel, A/BROAD overflows with BroadArts Theatre's trademark funny, edgy, dangerous, factual, inspiring, sexy, interactive performance.
In A/BROAD FOR ALL SEASONS, the Goddess Lilith has reached her elder years. Lilith, embodied by BroadArts' Artistic Director Melinda E. Pittman, hires a personal assistant to help her finish her memoirs. Lilith's protégé tires of the older woman's attitude and outlandish tales. The titans clash as they each struggle to create and re-create the world they want to live in. And then there is that mystery stranger, knocking at the door, knocking at the door...
TICKETS NOW ON SALE
Go to the BroadArts website (you're already there!), click on the Tickets button- pick your date and you're on your way! A/BROAD FOR ALL SEASONS makes a great holiday gift or stocking stuffer. How many amazing women changing the world can fit into your stocking? Make plans to attend A/BROAD FOR ALL SEASONS and be flabbergasted at the answer to that little mystery!
Set against a fictional and funny background, A/BROAD FOR ALL SEASONS incorporates real stories of women who are even now changing the face of history/herstory. Women like Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's (Burma's) democratically elected political prisoner of conscience; Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who anchored the Peace movement in Northern Ireland; Dr. Wangari Maathai of Kenya, who leads a global effort of reforestation and environmental sustainability, provide the play's inspiration. Through harmonies, historica and hysterica, the story of our continued progress toward an inclusive and sustainable world unfolds.
Fertile Ground Festival
BroadArts is proud to collaborate with our fellow members of the Portland theater Community as a participant in Fertile Ground: A city-wide festival of new work presented by the Portland Area Theater Alliance January 2010. Together we will let the world know that Portland truly is fertile ground for innovation, creativity, and daring acts of performance of all kinds. Find out more at www.fertilegroundpdx.org.
“I'm not fat. My body just naturally retains chocolate.”
BroadArts Theatre has cooked up a hot-from-the-oven sizzling comedy treat, FAT & SASSY II: One Size Fits!, opening October 23, 2009. Designed to celebrate people of ALL sizes, FAT & SASSY II is a smorgasbord of a musical, serving up an aerobic workout of comedy and music from hot yoga to hot chocolate and back again.
Written and composed by BroadArts' Artistic Director, Melinda E. Pittman, and directed by Sharon Mann, with musical direction by Dan Linn, the musical features an ensemble cast of women of substance and sings and satirizes its way through the all-you-can-eat buffet of diets, drugs, corporate greed, media brainwashing and discouragement that surround many people of size.
Award winning author Pittman says, “Big people are tired of being blamed for the greed of the fast food, advertising and diet industry. We're fat! So what? It's time to sing the praises of our whole luscious selves!”
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When & Where:
Thursday- Friday 8 pm ~ Rose City Park Presbyterian Grand Hall - NE 44th and Sandy Blvd
Saturday 8 pm- Sunday Matinee 2pm~ the Urban Grind Coffeehouse- 2214 NE Oregon 2 blocks north of Sandy Blvd
Saturday/ Sunday shows offer an optional, mouthwatering buffet meal at the Urban Grind one hour before the show- $10- must have at least a two day advance paid reservation. Beer and wine available for purchase. Proof of age required.
TICKETS
New! Group and class rates are now available!
- For a class group of 11+, tickets are just $5 each (single payment by check or cash through the BroadArts box office at least 1 day before the performance) plus two free tickets for the professor.
- For groups of 8 to 10, tickets are $10 each or $12 on the day of show and the organizer of the group is provided one free ticket. To get these special rates, call the BroadArts box office at 503-287-0100!
Regular ticket rates are about the price of a night at the movies, only our show has Live Girls!
$10 in advance $12 day of show $20 dinner and show~ Cheaper than a movie & popcorn!
Click here to buy yours online!
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FAT & SASSY II stars original cast members, the fabulous Kim Dewey, Mollie Hart, Jan Rosenthal and BroadArts' Artistic Director, Melinda E. Pittman, and our fresh import from New York City (New York City!) the amazing Brandee Palmblad in the leading role of D.K. The show also features Sharon Biermann, Pamela Harr Hough and Lindsey Koeppen as "Everybody Else." FAT & SASSY II ‘s stage director is Sharon Mann, our musical director is Dan Linn and the BroadArts Band rocks with the talents of Stacy Davis on bass, Aaron Linn on percussion and Dan Linn on guitar and keyboards.
Timothy Geithner and Barack Obama aren't exactly offering cash to us, but they have given your favorite Bad Girls incentive to shake off recessionism and make some hey, hey, hey!
Yes, BroadArts Theatre's melodic BroadBand is troupeing around (sic) this summer performing some of your favorite hits and some about to be favorites,
as we gear up for an exciting '09- '10 performance season.
Wanna Get Your Culture Stimulated?
If you'd like to attend one of the rollicking roasts
(not the temperature, but the tunes!)
Bring your Good Humor (not the ice cream, we'll have that)
and your
Generosity**
and Call Us for the Secret Location! 503-288-5181
* sorry no clunkers taken in trade
Please forward our family's thanks for our grandsons wonderful theatre experience during your camp. He really enjoyed himself and couldn't wait for each day in class ...Your teachers and programs are superb. Thanks for enriching the lives of so many kids.
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BroadArts Theatre's camps encourage students to create, experience & explore the nature & practice of peace. Students work with professional theatre artists/educators using writing, acting, movement, improvisation, clowning, singing & illustration to create their own vision of what peace means. Each session culminates in a shared presentation with family & friends, enabling students to experience the joy and gratification of collaboration and performance. |
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BroadArts Theatre will be partnering with The SUN Program at Martin Luther King Jr. school this year for summer activities July 27 – August 7, 2009. The program will provide performing and visual arts skills to scholarship students from King school as well as children ages 7 to 14 from the Portland Metropolitan area. |
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BroadArts Theatre invites you to join our artists, musicians, actors and special guests for our 7th Annual Internation Women's Day Concert, Saturday March 7th at the Urban Grind Coffeehouse, 2214 NE Oregon St, 2 blocks north of Sandy Blvd. Admission is just $10 and includes a light dinner.
Featured at this year's show are the BroadBand- Mollie Hart, Jan Rosenthal, Dan Linn, Melinda E. Pittman, Aaron Linn, Stacy Davis and our newest singing sensation Erica Grossman. Featured actresses include Roslyn Farrington, Jo`an Sterr, Victoria Trabosh and other surprise guests. Our kickoff speaker is Adrienne Fritze of Working Artists Network. Saturday's performance will be streamed live on Second Life at Pannies Rosedrop & Media Circus, Podul [236, 181, 121], where BroadArts willl be joined by an international cast of dancing avatars portraying some of our s/heroes!
Click on a postcard image for a giant-size printable version.
How can the arts bring a diversity of voices into public and community dialogue? How can we make sure that when we ask the question “What's your vision for the future?” we listen to all voices? How can we work together to turn our individual as well as common visions into reality?
Join representatives from p:ear, SCRAP, My Story, DEEP, VOZ, BroadArts Theatre, SpeakArtLoud, Veterans For Peace, local artists, and more at the "Arts as Vision" session of the monthly Springboard Social Innovations Forum. See visual arts, witness fabulous performances, and participate in discussions led by local experts, or just network informally. That's all in keeping with the goal of Springboard Social Innovation Forum: unleashing the potential of “ordinary” citizens to address local challenges with lasting solutions.
Wednesday, January 14th
Doors open at 5:30 pm
6-9 pm
at the Urban Grind East
2214 NE Oregon St
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$5 Admission includes a light supper (vegetarian option). Scholarships are available, contact katherine@springboardinnovation.org
This November (Nov 9, 13, 15, 20 & 22), join BroadArts Theatre in shaping a more-perfect Portland with our series of Broad~Arts Visionary Salons, supported by a grant from the City of Portland Vision Into Action project and the Multnomah Co. Cultural Coalition of the Oregon Cultural Trust. These 5 salons, one in each quadrant of Portland, are free to attend, and will feature extraordinary women and organizations who are working to create the best possible Portland we can.
You might have attended our performances two summers ago, IF I WERE THE QUEEN OF THIS FOREST, where you were invited to tell the city what kind of future we value for Portland. You, along with 16,999 other Portland residents responded, and the city embraced your Vision into the City-Council-approved Portland 2030 plan: A Vision for the Future.
Now it's -your- turn to make that vision real and active! BroadArts Theatre is excited to dance down the aisle of our collective future with you, at our Broad~Arts Visionary Salons! You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll meet amazing women! And you might even win a door prize! Woohoo!
Please visit our upcoming events page for more, and please note two changes to the schedule from our printed postcards and posters- the LGBTQQIA focus is at the salon the 20th and not the 15th, and our first salon on the 9th runs from 5 to 7 pm and not 8 as was formerly indicated. Changing the schedules, one mistake at a time!
BroadArts Theatre is working to create a more perfect Portland and we'd love to have you join in!
We are currently putting together a series of visionary community salons with support from the Vision Into Action project of the City of Portland. The salons will include discussions, presentations and theatrics- with local leaders, artists and visionaries, all focused on creating the future we want for our city.
There are countless ways for you and your organization to get involved, here are just a few:
Please contact Shamira Shirley at broadartsoutreach@gmail.com
More about the Vision into Action project: http://www.visionpdx.org/
BroadArts Theatre is thrilled and grateful to announce the receipt of five community supported grants, which will make our upcoming original comedy music theatre projects and productions possible. Click here to read more!
Be a Co-creator of BroadArts' next comedy musical production! During the first phase of creating WONDERBROADER, (March- May 2008), BroadArts invites enthusiastic, creative, imaginative and curious volunteer researchers to poll our communities and uncover the stories of global s/heroes changing the world right now. Sound like fun? Go to the BroadArts Volunteer and Internship Page to sign up!
Who else should BroadArts know about for WONDERBROADER ?
Who are your women heroes changing the world right now? They don't have to have won the Nobel Prize. If you know of women from any country who are making the world more equal, peaceful, compassionate, sustainable and just, please let BroadArts know! Tell us a bit about your personal s/hero.
