Portland Metro Arts

Home >

Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.

Get Adobe Flash player

Classes listed below are not always available every term. Please check the class schedule for current offerings. Contact us if you have a suggestion for a specific class. We are adding new classes frequently to our schedule.

Check out our classes!  
Kid's Play ! Lively Arts Theatre Camp for Kids
Reliving Radio Theatre Technical Theatre
Rhinoceros Musical Theatre  

Kid's Play! School Grades 1-6
Curtain Up! Light the Lights! We have a show to do!  Discover basic skills through theatre games, improvisation, playwriting, character development and movement, as we create a performance piece that will be presented in our theatre. Students will develop confidence and self-esteem through ensemble building. The kids become actors, directors, tech crew, and producers in this creative process.  Three plays are produced and performed throughout the school year.

See School Year Schedule

Lively Arts Theatre Camp for Kids

Calling all budding actors for the most fun you will have all summer.  Our performance will bring well-known stories to life and open the exciting world of the theatre.

See Summer Schedule

Reliving Radio Theatre School Grade 4-Adult
Recreate a classic radio show complete with sound effects. Re-live the golden days of radio by working with original scripts from actual shows. Performances are held at our own theatre and throughout the community.  A Christmas to Remember and Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol are this season's projects along with other smaller works.  Call for information about class dates and fees.

See School Year Schedule

Technical Theatre Middle School-Adult
Become a pro with set, light, make-up, sound, and costume design. Develop the skills in class and use them to crew actual shows. Get the up-close backstage perspective with field trips to professional theatres and shops. The small class group allows for much individual attention with lots of one-on-one instruction.

See School Year Schedule

Rhinoceros Musical Theatre Camp

Grades 1 - 4
Singing peas, bad babies, barnyard boogie and tap dancing Rhinos in a wacky and fun musical theatre production for kids. Calling actors, singers and dancers of all levels for the most fun you will have all Summer. The production has something for everyone from beginners through accomplished performers.

Rhinoceros Musical Theatre Camp
See Summer Schedule

 

"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation."
- Stella Adler
 
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
- Oscar Wilde
 
"I think there is no world without theatre."
- Edward Bond
 
"My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre."
- Steve Buscemi
 
"Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great. "
- Deborah Cox
 
"In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice. "
- Edward Bond
 
"An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham."
- Oscar Wilde
 
"Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretive one.
- Paul Newman
 
"Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted."
- William DeFoe
 
"You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level for several hours."
- Blythe Danner
 
"The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character."
- Jean-Louis Barrault
 
"What works for acting works for life. To act brilliantly, to live fully, requires nothing less than the complete investment of your entire soul! What we do is holy!"
- Alice Saltzman
 
"Do not be full of yourself, but be full of your part."
- Boucicault
 
"In your choice is your talent."
- Adler

GoodSearch: You Search...We Give!
PMA Center and School
9003 SE Stark St
Portland, OR 97216-1664
Phone: 503-408-0604
Find us on Facebook
Copyright © 2005-2010 Portland Metro Arts.