The Portland Center for the Performing Arts (PCPA) is an organization within Metro that runs venues for live theatre, concerts, cinema, small conferences, and similar events in Portland, Oregon, United States.
The PCPA consists of three separate buildings: the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Antoinette Hatfield Hall (formerly known as the New Theatre Building), and Keller Auditorium. The architects were Barton Myers, Boora Architects, and ELS of Berkeley, California.
Hatfield Hall itself is sometimes erroneously referred to as the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. PCPA is the fifth largest center for performing arts in the United States with more than 1,000 performances and one million patrons annually.
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