Upcoming Events

The Forest Climate Revue is part variety show, part forest ecology night, and part training for a resurgence of forest defense!

The Be It Yourself nights, while fully audience directed, are designed to be more family friendly and for those eager to have their first Rocky experience. Watch a cool little video about BIY Nights HERE.

Beer, wine and hard cider available for those 21 and over. Prop bags for sale - preshow with virgin games and MC Nathan!!!

It's beautiful and strange, with its profoundly disturbing ambient sound design of industrial groaning, as if filmed inside some collapsing factory or gigantic dying organism.

Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

Produced during a one-and-a-half-year period while director David Lynch was a student at the American Film Institute, the film launched him as a major new talent admired by cinephiles and filmmakers all over the world. It stands today as a milestone in personal, independent filmmaking.

Tonight's nonprofit partner is Impact NW.

Impact NW’s Mission is to prevent homelessness by partnering with people as they navigate their journey to stability and opportunity.

Impact NW has always responded to our community’s most pressing needs.

Impact NW is making a major shift and focus in 2019 to support people and families on the edge. They prevent homelessness by partnering with thousands of people in danger of losing their housing. By helping people navigate the broken safety-net system, we catalyze a cascade of stability and strength that benefits everyone in our community.

The key to their interventions is working with individuals and families at risk of losing their housing. More than 50,000 people in the Portland area live on the verge of homelessness. One health crisis; emergency room visit, or a lost job can land a family in a shelter or in a tent. The trauma is devastating. Everyone in our community suffers. Impact NW supports people before it’s too late in two main ways: They stabilize by offering services such as rent, utility and other supports. And they strengthen by offering job training, parenting support, and opportunities for children.

Who knows why the ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is so intimately linked with Halloween? Maybe it's the Frankenstein spoof, the meat cleaver, the touch of cannabilism. Maybe it's aliens from outer space. You take your pick--there are many layers to peel back before you discover the heart of this cult classic. That's why folks come back again, and again, and again. For many, ROCKY HORROR is what makes Halloween their favorite holiday of the year.

Whether you're a veteran or a newbie, where better to see ROCKY HORROR during the Halloween season than at the LONGEST, CONTINUOUSLY RUNNING WEEKLY SHOW IN THE WORLD (39 years and counting)? Yep, you heard that right--39 years and counting.

Unpack that French Maid's dress from that box behind the kids' old toys and dust off your tap shoes, and come delight in this cinematic right of passage and cherished Portland tradition.

Costume contest, prizes, goodies and more.....Come show us what you got!

Doors open at 1/2 hour before show time.

Peek behind the veil, into the darkness, and feel what is waiting for you… BEYOND THE WALL OF FEAR, a stinging indie horror feature from writer/director Joe Sherlock (Drifter, Odd Noggins, Blood Creek Woodsman).

Joe Sherlock, writer & director, live in person to take your questions!

"History Hits a High Note" – Moscow Times

Language: Russian
Translation: English subtitles
Running time: 2 h, 3 min

The Moscow Operetta Theatre's "Count Orlov Musical" is a remarkable tale of love and betrayal based on one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of the Russian Empire. Brilliantly told by renowned playwright and poet July Kim with music composed by Roman Ignatyev (the same team behind Anna Karenina Musical and The Count of Monte Cristo), the lavish production is set in the second half of the 18th century during the reign of Catherine the Great. Count Alexey Orlov, who had once contributed to Catherine’s rise to power, falls out of favor and is sent away in disgrace to Italy. While there, he meets a beautiful young woman, Elizabeth, supposedly the granddaughter of Peter the Great, who has aspirations for the Russian crown. In an attempt to win back Catherine's affection, Orlov reveals Elizabeth's plans, setting in motion a series of events that lead to an unimaginable end.

[Tim] Burton's marvellously imaginative view of the afterlife as a ghoulish extension of mundane earthbound problems is a visionary masterstroke crammed with wit and invention.

Alan Jones, Radio Times

Tonight's nonprofit partner is PUEBLO UNIDO.

Pueblo Unido provides legal service navigation and client advocate support for immigrants who are facing deportation. They connect clients to adequate legal representation and help gather evidence to strengthen cases against removal. Since our formation in April 2017, 10 of their clients have been released from detention and reunited with their families.

Legal representation is the single most predictive factor in whether a person will avoid deportation, secure more stable status, and achieve the right to remain in their community. Because immigration is civil—not criminal—court, however, the government does not provide legal counsel to those who cannot afford to hire their own. As a result, most people facing removal are forced to represent themselves, and are ultimately less likely to prevail against deportation. Pueblo Unido organized in April 2017 in response to this injustice to keep families and our communities together.

It’s the eve of Halloween in Grove Hill, Ohio. A traveling carnival is in town for the weekend and local outcast, Jacob Atkins, has been hired as one of the freaks in the event’s main attraction, “Dr.Death’s Side Show Spook House Spectacular”. Meanwhile, a group of local bullies are planning their annual public hazing of Jacob, but this year things go too far.

Violet Hex Presents HALLOW QUEEN!

AFTER DARK • 18+

Performances by:

THE LEGENDARY PHATIMA RUDE (SF)
Rita Lynn
Jocelyn Knobs
Wolfgang X
Sonnei
Mona Chrome
Romie Romak
Lala Benet
Zadae
Ruby Delish
Liam Needsome
Mia More
Rosie Cakes

$5 Champagne Cocktails

Superstar DJ Johnny Demonic

+Vintage Pop-Up Shop by Wyld Stallyns

An exercise in maximalism & drag! (Vol 7.)

Doors open at 8pm.

“The Menace Among Us” Will Be Lurking in Stories at the Clinton St. Theater Nov. 2nd.

Four storytellers standing at the corner of Menace & Dread will shed light on the darkness near at hand in the Portland Storytellers Guild’s monthly show Saturday evening, November 2 at the Clinton Street Theater.

Janice Alexander, Trish Anderson, Norm Brecke and Anne Rutherford, share tales of the macabre that can lurk in the shadows, turning such seemingly innocent pleasures as walking the beach, bonding with a pet or riding a carousel into “the menace among us” in a show is recommended for mature audiences ready to enjoy a good scare. Tickets are $15 online and $20 at the door.

A special invitation to first see the movie FLASH GORDON and then stay for a gala reception with food and drink specials and THEN...the pièce de résistance, reserved VIP seating for Flash Ah-Ahhh!

Need more Flash Gordon? We've got the movie playing in the afternoon before the stupendous production of Flash Ah-Ahhh!!!!

The Clinton has been showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show weekly since 1978, making it one of the longest running movies in the world! Come on down and join us any Saturday night at midnight (doors open at 11:30pm).

Ticket price includes service fee.

"I first saw Rocky Horror when I was 9 years old, and it blew my mind and changed my life. I made my mom take me and my 6 year old sister to see it in West Hollywood, bless her heart. They called all the virgins on stage, so we went. "Do you want to get me arrested, kid? Sit back down." As a freshman at Reed, I took my dorm mates to see it for their first time. So glad for your uninterrupted commitment to educating today's youth." Nili Yosha

The OregonMade Creative Foundation has teamed up with four of the best independent cinemas located in all four of the quadrants of Portland--Northwest Film Center, The Hollywood Theatre, Clinton Street Theater and Cinema 21, to announce a pilot program designed to give locally produced feature length films a short theatrical distribution window in the city. Screenings will consist of a four day run, with one night at each theatre, in the four “quadrants” of Portland.

Got grandkids or other young family members? Want to spend some quality time with them? Give them a treat they'll never forget--The Amazing Bubble Man!

"Greatest bubble show on Earth." - SFGate.com

From Roger Ebert's 2007 review: "The skies are always dark with airborne filth in this Los Angeles of the future. It usually rains. The infrastructure looks a lot like now, except older and more crowded, and with the addition of vast floating zeppelins, individual flying cars, and towering buildings of unimaginable size. When I first saw the film I was impressed by the giant billboards with moving, speaking faces on them, touting Coca-Cola and other products. Now I walk over to Millennium Park and see giant faces looming above me, smiling, winking, and periodically spitting (but not Coke). As for the flying cars, these have been a staple of sci-fi magazine covers for decades, but remain wildly impractical and dangerous, unless locked into a control grid.

The "human story," as I think of it, involves practical tests to determine if an individual is a replicant or not, and impractical tests (such as love) to determine how much that matters to (a) people, if they are in love with a replicant, and (b) replicants, if they know they are replicants. This has always been a contrived problem, easily avoidable in practical ways, unless (as I suspect) the Tyrell Corporation has more up its sleeves than arms. But to stumble on plot logic seems absurd in a film that is more about vision. And I continue to find it fascinating how film noir, a genre born in the 1940s, has such a hammerlock on the future (look at "Dark City" again). I suspect film noir is so fruitful and suggestive that if you bring it on board, half your set and costume decisions have been made for you, and you know what your tone will be."

A trio of transplanted New Yorkers share stories about pivotal times in their lives in “Game Changers: Remembering Moments That Matter,” the monthly Portland Storytellers Guild show Saturday evening, December 7 at the Clinton Street Theater.

The three Big Apple expatriates, Maura Doherty, Edward Hershey and Pearl Steinberg, are happy to call Portland home now and accomplished storytellers with a range of recollections that span the continent.

Doors open at 7 and the stories start to flow at 7:30.

If you are new to Portland (and even if you aren't) come experience a PORTLAND CHRISTMAS TRADITION--the Clinton Street Theater's "12th"* annual Christmas screening of THE BIG LEBOWSKI.

COME COMFORTABLE. COME IN YOUR ROBE AND PAJAMAS.

Screening every night at 7:30pm from December 20th through December 26th.

Serving the Clinton's own blend of RICE RUSSIANS. Believe me, you're gonna want some.

35mm Print!!

"The Big Lebowski is a mess. But what a glorious, wonderfully-entertaining mess it is." --James Berardinelli

*We've been running this far longer than 12 years, but having lost count, I use 12 because it's my favorite number.

Storytellers “Leap Into The New” Jan. 4 at Clinton St. Theater

Have you ever tried something new even if it meant risk a leap into the unknown? Or do you always look before you leap?

Mike Devenney, Kitty Kaping, Kriya Kaping and Anne Penfound count themselves among the risk-takers — and they are ready to tell you about some of their adventures Saturday evening, January 4 at the Clinton Street Theater in “Leap Into the New,” the first Portland Storytellers Guild show of the new year. They will share true tales of how a jump, a dive into the depths, a passport to a new world and a misstep led to life-altering experiences.

Doors open at 7 and the stories start at 7:30.