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Make your Thanksgiving weekend extra special with this fun activity for friends and family. Get $10 tickets to The Tesla City Stories Black Friday performance at TeslaTix.com. Use code CHEAP11.
A monthly night of vintage radio comedy and drama live onstage in Portland, Oregon! Straight outta 1944! Laughs! Chills! Romance! Danger! Beverages! Eats! Cash bar! Live Foley! 1940s live music! Prizes!
Get a discount on tickets to this one-of-a-kind Portland theater experience, The Tesla City Stories Live Vintage Radio Theater Onstage.
Have you ever wondered what storytelling was like before modern technology? See it come to life right before your eyes at The Tesla Stories Live Vintage Radio Theater Onstage. The show takes you back in time with vintage radio theater live and direct from 1944.
Since 2014, The Tesla City Stories has been delighting local audiences with monthly theater performances like no other. This local, original production was started right here in Portland, Oregon. It continues to grow in popularity with most shows selling out.
Local actors take the stage to perform live radio theater derived from the long-lost radio programs of Tesla Broadcasting Company. The shows cover sitcoms, thrillers, mysteries, romantic comedies with forays into westerns, sci-fi and horror. All performances are based in the fictional locale of Tesla City. It’s also never the same show twice.
Here’s how you can enjoy Portland’s most unique night out on the town and get an exclusive discount on tickets to the Friday, November 24 performance.
Get $10 Tickets to The Tesla City Stories

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Discount tickets
Get a special discount to the Black Friday Special of The Tesla City Stories on Friday, November 24 at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Only 25 tickets are available at the discounted price!
The Tesla City Stories is offering an exclusive discount on tickets to Portland Living on the Cheap readers. General admission tickets are $22.50 per person. With our limited time deal, you’ll save 55% on your ticket purchase.
Follow these simple steps to claim your discount. On the ticketing page, scroll down to the General Admission ticket option and choose how many tickets you’d like to buy. Then scroll to the Coupon Code field, enter CHEAP11 and click “Apply.” You’ll see the discount of $12.50 per ticket applied to the total.
Note: The discount only applies to General Admission tickets for the November 24, 2023 show.
Food, drink and adult beverages are available for purchase at the show. In true cabaret style, you can eat and drink in the main theater.

Photo courtesy of The Tesla City Stories
Details
Monthly performances are held at the historic Old Church Concert Hall. The next event is on Friday, November 24 at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Come out and enjoy a night of live theater complete with drama, romance, comedy, thrills and chills. The show includes live foley sound effect artists, 1940s live music performances, prizes, and audience participation, including an applause sign.
The stories are always new and never repeated. This Black Friday Holiday Special has many surprises and delights for everyone as our biggest show of the year!
- First, we bring you an episode of “The Wilde Card Mysteries” – a detective show featuring affable, nearly always broke P.I. Jack Wilde. He’s a decent gumshoe with a silver tongue and an incurable itch for gambling; in fact it’s a toss-up which has caused more trouble for Jack – the cards or his mouth. But, no matter what hand he’s dealt, Jack gets the job done, often to the surprise of his old friend and sometime nemesis, TCPD captain “Dusty” Mankowitz.
- And then a laugh-filled episode of “Blevins to Betsy” – a romantic-comedy set in the world of radio. He’s Blevins DeBell, America’s favorite radio star. She’s Betsy Harper, small town girl and production assistant at the TBC. Their fortunes and hearts become entangled when Betsy steps into the figurative shoes of Blevins’s former co-star and wife, Joan DeBell. It’s a part neither of them expected to play, but the show must go on!
- And as always, another installment of “Nightingale of the Broken Heart” – the TBC’s daily afternoon soap opera. Follow the days of nurse Myra Nightingale as her life entwines with those of the staff and patients of Tesla City’s Blessed Heart Hospital, colloquially known by locals as “the Broken Heart.”
- Special musical guest: The Dickens Carolers
The show takes place at The Old Church Concert Hall, 1422 SW 11th Ave. in Portland. For more information and to buy tickets, visit The Tesla City Stories’ website.
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The Old Church Concert Hall
1422 SW 11th Ave.
Portland, OR 97201
503-222-2031
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