Pitch Black Showcase
2025-08-21 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Portland Center Stage at the Armory, 128 NW Eleventh Ave, Portland, 97209, United States
Pitch Black Showcase returns to Portland for a one-night celebration of Black ideas and brilliance. Experience powerful live pitches from Black founders, makers, and creatives sharing the ideas they’re building, dreaming of, and fighting for. This isn’t a competition. It’s a stage for possibility.
The evening will also feature live music by local Black artists, Local Black maker tables, themed drinks, and a chance to meet the founders and connect with the community.
About Pitch Black
Pitch Black Showcase is the signature event of Pitch Black, a platform for elevating Black ideas across industries and across the country. Since 2015, we’ve spotlighted Black founders and creators with bold visions—from outdoor adventure startups to sneaker-themed coffee shops to sustainability-focused development firms.
Pitch Black is where Black brilliance takes the stage and invites the world to listen.

Some Like it Hot
2025-09-02 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-04 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-05 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-06 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-07 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-09-07 18:30 - 20:00 | Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
Winner of 4 Tony Awards®, including Best Choreography and Best Costumes, and the Grammy Award® for Best Musical Theater Album, SOME LIKE IT HOT is “A Super-Sized, All-Out Song-And-Dance Spectacular!” – The New York Times. Set in Chicago when Prohibition has everyone thirsty for a little excitement, SOME LIKE IT HOT is the “glorious, big, high-kicking” (Associated Press) story of two musicians forced to flee the Windy City after witnessing a mob hit. With gangsters hot on their heels, they catch a cross-country train for the life-chasing, life-changing trip of a lifetime. And what a trip it is! With its irresistible combination of heart and laughs, song and dance, SOME LIKE IT HOT won more theater awards than any show in its season, and was named Best Musical by the Drama Desk, The Drama League, and the Outer Critics Circle. No wonder Deadline calls it “a tap-dancing, razzle-dazzling embrace of everything you love about musical theater.”

Dracula
2025-10-10 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-10-11 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-11 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-10-12 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-17 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-10-18 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-18 19:30 - 22:00 | Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
It Will Turn You
Deep in Transylvania, a monster lives in a castle, hungrily capturing women to take as his brides. When Dracula steals Svetlana, she fights back, certain her fiancé is coming to rescue her. But will he be too late?
Back by popular demand, Ben Stevenson’s lavish, haunting ballet combines drama and fantasy in a spectacle worthy of Broadway.
“Exquisitely beautiful and atmospheric.” – The New York Times

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
2025-11-16 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-11-18 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-11-19 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-11-20 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-11-21 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-11-22 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-11-23 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-23 19:30 - 22:00 and 8 more dates | Portland Center Stage at the Armory, 128 NW Eleventh Ave, Portland, 97209, United States
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

Adapted By Lauren M. Gunderson
Directed by Joanie Schultz

From America’s most produced playwright comes another fresh adaptation of a familiar classic. Lauren Gunderson’s Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women takes the legendary novelist and places her at the center of her own story. Under the guidance of their beloved mother, the four young March sisters — tempestuous Jo, traditional Meg, gentle Beth, and spirited Amy — struggle to keep their family going while their father serves in the Civil War. This enduring celebration of sisterhood comes to life as a young writer makes space for herself and her stories in a society she’s determined to change.

“A very lively new adaptation puts the author in the spotlight.” — Chicago Tribune
