Over the period of our Making An Entrance Capital Campaign, Portland Stage raised over $7M towards our goals to complete significant renovations to our facility, contribute $2M to our endowment supporting our education programs, and retire the mortgage on our building.
We celebrated our success in May with our campaign donors at a jubilant event in our reimagined facility, where we showed off many of the costumes, set designs, and show posters from our last 50 years of theater, and staged a dramatic reading of a new play by John Cariani.
A Word from Anita Stewart, Artistic Director
Portland Stage is an investment that pays extraordinary dividends. The work on our stage has always been extraordinary. The Making An Entrance Campaign is now helping us increase the visibility and accessibility of our productions and programs so that more of our community can take advantage of the opportunity for connection that the extraordinary work on those stages inspires.
As we started our 50th Mainstage season, the construction project made possible by our campaign was nearing completion. Over the course of the year, our patrons were part of this “work in progress,” and watched the new elevator and box office move from dream to reality. During the Campaign, we raised over 7 million dollars not only to renovate our spaces, but to provide long lasting support for our education programs and retire our mortgage.
Thanks to the many individuals and foundations that supported this effort to build a legacy for our future. Thank you for joining us as we open the door to the future.
Making Our Entrance
The Making An Entrance Capital Campaign funded renovations to make our facility more accessible and visible to our community. This project would not have been possible without our partners Wright Ryan, Scott Simons, Thornton Tomasetti, and Pandora LaCasse.
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