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Lee Moyer
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Kiss Me Like You Mean It
by Chris Chibnall
October 8, 2010 through October 31, 2010
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:00pm
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Ruth needs some new options and another beer. Tony needs to shut up and participate. Don needs the upper hand and a curry-flavored condom. Edie needs a little whiskey and a couple of signatures. And they all need more courage than they could ever have imagined. In the American Premiere of this beautiful, joyous, and heartbreaking play, the impossible is possible, the beginning is just the beginning, and "a kiss is still a kiss."
Single tickets $28-$32, Students $15 (plus ticketing fees)
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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Phédre
by Jean Racine in a version by Ted Hughes
October 16, 2010 through October 17, 2010
Saturday at 2:00pm, Sunday at 7:00pm
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This performance, originally screened in June, 2009, features Helen Mirren in the title role.
In Phédre, Mirren plays a women consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson. Believing Theseus, her absent husband, to be dead, she confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare. When Theseus returns, alive and well, Phèdre, fearing exposure, accuses her stepson of rape. The result is carnage.
All Tickets $20
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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A Disappearing Number
by Complicite, Directed by Simon McBurney
November 6, 2010
Saturday, 2:00pm and 7:00pm
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A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too. The mathematician GHHardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in the chilly English surroundings of Cambridge during the First World War. Ramanujan looks to create some of the most complex mathematical patterns of all time.
We are all looking. The question is who can see.
All Tickets $20
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
December 18, 2010
Saturday, 2:00pm and 7:00pm
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Shakespeare's HAMLET, directed by Nicholas Hytner, featuring cast Rory Kinnear in the title role, David Calder as Polonius, Clare Higgins as Gertrude, Patrick Malahide as Claudius and Ruth Negga as Ophelia.
All Tickets $20
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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The Wonderful World of Dissocia
by Anthony Neilson
January 28, 2011 through February 20, 2011
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:00pm
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Lisa Jones has been feeling a bit off. One hour off, in fact; the hour she lost when her flight to London crossed the Greenwich meridian at the exact moment daylight savings time ended. To retrieve her wandering hour, Lisa must take a journey…to Dissocia, where cars fly, bears sing, and the Black Dog King reigns. This wildly inventive, fearlessly smart, and relentlessly surprising play by the author of The Lying Kind will take you places you never expected and will never forget.
Single tickets $28-$32, Students $15 (plus ticketing fees)
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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FELA!
February 5, 2011 through February 6, 2011
Saturday at 2:00pm, Sunday at 7:00pm
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Currently playing on Broadway, the Tony winning musical FELA! comes to the National with Sahr Ngaujah as Fela Anikulpao-Kuti.
All Tickets $20
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
February 26, 2011
2:00pm and 7:00pm
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One of the greatest works in western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.
Derek Jacobi portrays the aging monarch in the Donmar Warehouse production, directed by Artistic Director Michael Grandage.
All Tickets $20
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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Frankenstein
by Nick Dear
April 2, 2011
Saturday at 2:00pm and 7:00pm
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Danny Boyle’s production of FRANKENSTEIN, a play by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley.
All Tickets $20
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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Last of the Boys
by Steven Dietz
May 6, 2011 through May 29, 2011
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:00pm
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Ben and Jeeter fought together in Vietnam, but thirty years later the fight continues in a trailer park on a Superfund site. The buddies are joined by Jeeter's new girlfriend and her caustic, whiskey-fueled mother for one last hurrah. Fierce, funny and haunting, this highly theatrical and increasingly relevant play explores the legacy of war and its human cost.
Single tickets $28-$32, Students $15 (plus ticketing fees)
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
July 16, 2011
2:00pm and 7:00pm
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Also in the new season will be Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD, directed by NT Associate Director Howard Davies, whose recent productions of Russian plays (including Philistines, Burnt by the Sun and The White Guard) have earned huge critical acclaim. Zoë Wanamaker will play Madame Ranevskaya.
All Tickets $20
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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Announcing 20/20: Clearly a Bargain
Want that awesome Third Rail experience at a lower price?
For every
performance we are holding 20 seats in the first two rows. One
hour before curtain time (1pm matinees, 6:30pm evenings), we will sell
those seats for only $20.
First come, first served, so arrive a bit
early to be among the "lucky 20."
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