Staged!

We grow artists by focusing on these 3 things:
-Professional musical theatre productions
-Education & community outreach in the performing arts
-Pre-professional training to young artists through the S! Conservatory

The S! Conservatory is a sequential training program that follows the school year (Sept-June). Admission is by audition and interview only. Faculty and guest artists are second to none. The program is held at our artistic home, Artists Rep. We focus on contemporary composers in our mainstage productions and our in-home concerts ("Salons.") Past productions include VIOLET, SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, BIG RIVER, PARADE, ABLAZE: an a ca****la musical thriller (world premiere); 13: the MUSICAL, THE SECRET GARDEN, and an all-student LES MISERABLES. Outreach/Education events for the community include the popular M(E)OWs ("musicals (entirely) in one weekend") for teens, Oregon's only true Summer Stock for youth, the Theatre Leadership Incubator for college students, and lively pre-show chats before every Sunday matinee performance ("Cerebral Mulch"). Staged! often brings nationally-known theatre artists to Portland to work with our students, including Jason Robert Brown, Jeff Whiting, Shoshana Bean, and Marc Kudisch.