Portland'5 Centers for the Arts

The Portland’5 Centers for the Arts (Portland’5) operates five theaters in three separate City of Portland-owned buildings in downtown Portland. Those venues include the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Keller Auditorium, and Antoinette Hatfield Hall, which houses the Brunish, Newmark, and Winningstad theaters. Arts & Culture provides administrative oversight of Portland’5, and the venues are operated by Metro under the oversight of the Metropolitan Recreation and Exposition Commission (MERC).

About Portland'5

Operated by Metro, Portland'5 is the nation's fifth largest performing arts center and hosts more than 1,000 music, theater, dance, and lecture performances every year. An artistic and economic powerhouse, the center's five venues draw in excess of 1 million patrons—local Portlanders, as well as visitors from across the region and beyond—generating an average of $60 million in total spending annually. 

Additionally, more than 12,000 students in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties visit Portland'5 to see performances each year, with support from the Portland'5 Foundation and Portland's Arts Access Fund. 

The City of Portland and its partners continue to invest in the Portland’5 venues, including upgrading the iconic marquee outside the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in 2021. Funded by Prosper Portland, this makeover introduced new digital technology—eliminating the time-consuming and hazardous process of manually changing lettering and allowing the venue to welcome multiple events and audiences in a single day. Later that same year, cutting-edge electronic acoustic enhancements were installed to ensure that audience members experience high-quality sound—regardless of seat location and/or ticket price. Paid for with public and private funding and donations, this transformational project was completed in 2021.