Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special: A Queer Celebration

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When
Friday, Dec. 19, 2025
7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
Cost: Starting at $20.00
Where
3530 SE Division St
Portland, OR 97202

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

Join hostess Violet Hex for a Queer Celebration of Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special. Presented in Violet-Vision: Screened with archival commercial breaks spliced in for a special interactive TV viewing experience.

Featuring a special Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Drag Show with pre-film performances by PDX icons GivenRy BredXO Skeleton, and Violet Hex.

This screening is intended for an adult and teen audience. It is not geared towards children and may contain material that parents might not find suitable for viewers under the age of 14. Want to bring your younger kiddos? You’ll love the family-friendly screenings on Dec 21st.

ON SCREEN: Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special

1988. Directed by Wayne Orr and Paul Reubens. Runtime: 90 minutes including commercials. 

Pee-wee Herman and pals are celebrating Christmas in the Playhouse in their own creative ways: Pee-wee makes a list for Santa Claus 1.5 miles long, teaches Little Richard how to ice skate, goes for a sleigh ride with Magic Johnson, enslaves Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello into making Christmas cards, receives a long phone call from Dinah Shore, even has more musical fun with k.d. lang, the Del Rubio Triplettes and Charo! Finally, Big Red arrives and announces that Pee-wee’s Christmas list was so big, he didn’t have enough presents for all the children of the world. Will Pee-wee follow his own advice and help others?