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A bit of Portland Stage 101:
Portland Stage is located in Portland, MAINE.
The theater, lobby and restrooms are located on the second floor, not in the hallway beside the stairs, in the closet beneath the stairs, or in the ten square feet beside the box office. There is no "around the corner" on the first floor, what you see is what you get: the big obvious staircase, the dark, closet-like closet, the box office, the aforementioned ten square feet, and a very small elevator.
The elevator is not a magic portal. It goes to the first floor, and the second floor, and nowhere else. You will not get lost if you step inside it.
Wheelchair accessible seating is available in the front row of both Main Stage and The Studio theater. Advanced reservations are required. This reservation help us to know when we need to remove seats from the front row for your convenience, and allows us to warn you that your typical Hoveround, deluxe, off-roading, senior-citizen vespa will not fit properly in the Studio Theater.
Under "Ticket Delivery Method" on the internet, "Will-Call" does not mean you have volunteered to make a phone call to the box office to inform us you purchased tickets on the internet. We know that you did. It's our job. "Will-Call" is a common theater term meaning you will be picking your tickets up at the box office rather than having them mailed out to you.
The page labeled "Internet Receipt" is not a ticket. It is a receipt detailing your purchase on the internet. Your ticket is a ticket.
You may not go up and "just take a look at the theater" when choosing your seats. Theater seats are chairs that you purchase the use of for the limited time you are attending a show. They are not a minivan and may not be test-driven.
Portland Stage seats 287 people. This is fewer people than you think it is, and will fit in a smaller space than you imagine. Columns would look silly in so small a space. As would a balcony. So there are no bad seats, only fantastic seats, good seats, and I-will-be-unhappy-no-matter-what-I-have seats.
The Studio Theater is an intimate space which seats, on average, a quarter of the number of people you can fit in the audience of the main stage. Seating for the Studio Theater is general admission. The Studio Theater has both columns AND a balcony, but rest assured these are both invisible to the human eye.
Because of the nature of the space, there is absolutely NO late seating in the Studio Theater. Were we to attempt seating you after the performance had begun, you would immediately find yourself part of the production. This would be very distracting to the audience and to the actor(s) and would not even help you to obtain an Equity Card.
Every person attending a performance at either theater must have a ticket, and therefor a seat - no babes in arms. No one under the age of four will be admitted to either theater. Walking into the building fifteen minutes after the 60 minute, intermission-less matinée in the Studio Theater has started and picking up your two tickets for you, your spouse, and your two-month-old baby, for example, is no way to attend the theater.
Try again.
Portland Stage is located in Portland, MAINE.
The theater, lobby and restrooms are located on the second floor, not in the hallway beside the stairs, in the closet beneath the stairs, or in the ten square feet beside the box office. There is no "around the corner" on the first floor, what you see is what you get: the big obvious staircase, the dark, closet-like closet, the box office, the aforementioned ten square feet, and a very small elevator.
The elevator is not a magic portal. It goes to the first floor, and the second floor, and nowhere else. You will not get lost if you step inside it.
Wheelchair accessible seating is available in the front row of both Main Stage and The Studio theater. Advanced reservations are required. This reservation help us to know when we need to remove seats from the front row for your convenience, and allows us to warn you that your typical Hoveround, deluxe, off-roading, senior-citizen vespa will not fit properly in the Studio Theater.
Under "Ticket Delivery Method" on the internet, "Will-Call" does not mean you have volunteered to make a phone call to the box office to inform us you purchased tickets on the internet. We know that you did. It's our job. "Will-Call" is a common theater term meaning you will be picking your tickets up at the box office rather than having them mailed out to you.
The page labeled "Internet Receipt" is not a ticket. It is a receipt detailing your purchase on the internet. Your ticket is a ticket.
You may not go up and "just take a look at the theater" when choosing your seats. Theater seats are chairs that you purchase the use of for the limited time you are attending a show. They are not a minivan and may not be test-driven.
Portland Stage seats 287 people. This is fewer people than you think it is, and will fit in a smaller space than you imagine. Columns would look silly in so small a space. As would a balcony. So there are no bad seats, only fantastic seats, good seats, and I-will-be-unhappy-no-matter-what-I-have seats.
The Studio Theater is an intimate space which seats, on average, a quarter of the number of people you can fit in the audience of the main stage. Seating for the Studio Theater is general admission. The Studio Theater has both columns AND a balcony, but rest assured these are both invisible to the human eye.
Because of the nature of the space, there is absolutely NO late seating in the Studio Theater. Were we to attempt seating you after the performance had begun, you would immediately find yourself part of the production. This would be very distracting to the audience and to the actor(s) and would not even help you to obtain an Equity Card.
Every person attending a performance at either theater must have a ticket, and therefor a seat - no babes in arms. No one under the age of four will be admitted to either theater. Walking into the building fifteen minutes after the 60 minute, intermission-less matinée in the Studio Theater has started and picking up your two tickets for you, your spouse, and your two-month-old baby, for example, is no way to attend the theater.
Try again.