PORTLAND STAGE

Portland Stage presents the story of trailblazing Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith in a new play that explores her stand against McCarthyism. Written by Joe ...

Portland Stage presents a revival of the acclaimed physical comedy, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, which features a comedic cast navigating the chaos of a ...

Della has planned to bake Jen's wedding cake since she was a little girl, but when Jen comes back from NYC with her fiancée Macy, ...

From the late August Wilson, one of Americas greatest playwrights, comes this autobiographical tour de force. In his one-man show, Wilson takes us on a ...

Beatriz, a Cuban American baker in Maine, tries to figure out whether she should stay with the community shes developed, or reunite with her estranged ...

Come on back to Tuna (the third smallest town in Texas) for the holidays! Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie will keep you up to the ...

Follow Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson on two of the detectives most daring cases: A Scandal in Bohemia and The Final Adventure. Effortlessly woven ...

Manford is 5'5", Chinese American, and desperate to make it onto the USF basketball team. If he can run the court as well as he ...

Smoke on the Mountain tells the hilarious and heartwarming story of a Saturday Night Gospel Sing at a country church in North Carolinas Smoky Mountains ...

Too Strange to Live, Too Weird to Die is back!This reading series, curated by Literary Manager Todd Brian Backus, features beautiful and bizarre plays that ...

This moving new musical illuminates Sabina Spielrein, a patient turned doctor, unfairly sidelined to the margins of history by two famous men in her field ...

One afternoon, Anthony arrives unexpectedly at classmate Carolines door bearing a beat-up copy of Walt Whitmans Leaves of Grass, an urgent assignment from their English ...

In this Clauder Competition-winning futuristic sci-fi, planet Earth has become uninhabitable. The last escape ship from Earth arrives at its new home centuries after all ...

A play with music about people dying to live. At Riverdale Manor, a retirement community in the Bronx, seniors contemplate the possibility of dying from ...

BAD DATESbyTheresa Rebeck Shoe-obsessed divorcee Haley played by Annie Henk regales us with hilarious stories as she re-enters the world of dating in this 90-minute ...

Shoe-obsessed divorcee Haley played by Annie Henk regales us with hilarious stories as she re-enters the world of dating in this 90-minute (no break) one-woman ...

Portland Stage presents The Winnipesaukee Playhouse production of OR,Lifes tough when youre Englands groundbreaking first female playwright. And a spy. And you have a famous ...

A world-premiere theatrical reading. Free. Live. With Q&A. SENIOR LIVING by Tor Hyams and Lisa St. Lou, directed by Jennifer Cannizzaro.Take a peek at the ...

PORTLAND STAGE is inviting the public to register to attend Almost, Maine-the Writer's Cut, a three-part series of live, selected readings from the newly published ...

Register to attend the Writers Cut - 3 diffferent live readings of the newly published novel, read by the novelist followed by a Live Q&A. ...

In theater performances | October 29 November 15th, 2020Digital on Demand viewing | November 9 November 22, 2020A 1980 Pulitizer Prize Winner for Drama. After ...

This brilliant new comedy turns well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies when a rising Chilean attorney, and his pregnant American wife, purchase a home next to ...

What better way to celebrate the bicentennial of our State than with a play that put us on the map? Offering charming vignettes about love, ...

What better way to celebrate the bicentennial of our State than with a play that put us on the map? Offering charming vignettes about love, ...

What better way to celebrate the bicentennial of our State than with a play that put us on the map? Offering charming vignettes about love, ...

Celebrate the Holiday Season with this beloved American classic. This heartwarming story of renewal is presented as a 1940s radio broadcast with sound effects performed ...

In an imperfect world, the best solution is to laugh. Conflict and comedy weave a whimsical tale about cleaning, relationships and finding the perfect apple. ...

The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s comes to life in Aint Misbehavin, the three-time Tony Award-winning musical revue. Join five sensational performers on ...

This hit musical by Tony award-winning lyricist Jason Robert Brown deconstructs a love affair and marriage between an aspiring novelist and a struggling actress over ...

The future is thrown into uncertainty when rumors seep through a Detroit auto plant at the start of the Great Recession. A makeshift family of ...

A chance encounter presents a tantalizing question for a college secretary: Can anyone be trained to see the dead? Her dogged pursuit of an answer ...

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. Oscar WildeWhats in a name? Wildes masterful comedy follows a young man and his friend on a ...

Celebrate the holidays with this timeless tale that embodies the season: love, family, and the spirit of goodwill. See it brought to life on-stage, with ...

When a Jewish-American war photographer feels compelled to assist a young refugee who steps in front of her camera, she calls an old friend to ...

An evening of raw, edgy, and dangerous short plays brought to life onstage for the first time ever! Curated by Dustin Tucker, featuring Maine authors: ...

“…Part comedy, part historical drama and part biography… by turns sarcastic, droll and witty.” — NY Times When a runaway slave demands sanctuary at a ...

Presented by Maine State Music Theatre and Portland Stage. Winner of four Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Best Off-Broadway Musical, Nunsense is an over-the-top, utterly ...

Join us for the world premiere of New England playwright Marisa Smith’s latest play. When your husband is too busy buying cabins in Newfoundland for ...

In this riveting two-person drama Zoe, a biracial student, and Janine, her white professor, meet to discuss their differing views on Zoe’s paper about slavery ...

Maggie’s a tough, Boston cop, trying to get her finger on the one man who gave her the slip: a sly crime boss who worked ...

Babette’s Feast tells the story of how a refugee transforms a closed religious community by sacrificing all she has to throw a lavish dinner party. ...

The Odd Couple meets Thelma and Louise in this contemporary, new play, which was a recent hit at both The Humana and Williamstown Theater Festivals. ...

Portland Stage announces three performances of a staged reading of Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl featuring a rotating cast of Portland Stage Affiliate Artists. ? ...

By Bess Welden with Arabic translation by Ali Al Mshakheel Directed by Todd Brian Backus January 6 | 7pm In Refuge/Malja, Jamie, a fiercely independent ...

Celebrate the Holiday Season with this beloved American classic. This heartwarming story of renewal is presented as a 1940’s radio broadcast with sound effects performed ...

When Helen goes to an academic conference, she reluctantly calls on her absent younger brother Teddy for help with their elderly mother. Over the weekend ...

SPECIAL EVENT Monday Nov 6: A Staged Reading of WIT AND WISDOM: Readings from the Great Writings on the Outrage, the Interest, the Pleasure, the ...

The Haunting Hour Oct 25 – Nov 4 | 7pm| $18 (Pay-What-You-Can Oct 25) Curated by Dustin Tucker and featuring Portland Stage Affiliate Artists. Tales ...

From Away is an annual festival of new work celebrating the voices of international writers. Each year, From Away brings talented writers from around the ...

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill recounts Billie Holiday’s life story through the songs that made her famous. It’s 1959 and Billie Holiday is ...

Conceived and originally directed and choreographed by Fran Charnas. Musical Arrangements by Tom Fitt, Gil Lieb, and Dick Schermesser Additional Orchestrations by Corey Allen Presented ...

Portland Stage Affiliate Artists present a ‘Studio Series Workshop Staged Reading’ of John Cariani’s cul-de-sac, Monday, July 31st at 7:30 pm, followed by an open ...

Aaron Posner....

Tammy Ryan....

adapt: Steven Canny, John Nicholson from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

The night before his untimely death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. returns to his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis after delivering a speech ...

This extraordinary play, widely regarded as Friel’s masterpiece, is the study of five unmarried sisters, named for Friel’s mother and sisters, (“those five brave, Glenties ...

Monica Wood....

Matthew Lopez....

Clive Francis....

Theology and sharp-tongued quips intersect when aging sisters Mary and Margaret find themselves defending their Catholic beliefs to a young evangelist who knocks at their ...

A dysfunctional family is forced to reconsider their relationship and how they communicate when their son, Billy­- who was born deaf but stayed out of ...

A contemporary drama about bridging the gap between the West and the Middle East. When Intisar, an African American Muslim student, arrives in Cairo for ...

A light-hearted play with music showcasing the life and lyrics of the legendary American librettist Ira Gershwin. From his early days writing comic tunes to ...

Mainstage: Morris Panych....

August Wilson....

Main Stage: - David Davalos....

Studio Theatre: -...

Main Stage: - John Cariani....

Main Stage: - Noel Coward....

Main Stage: - Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams....

As children, Ted and Richard don’t have much in common – except for the shared desire to become classical pianists. But does either of them ...

As children, Ted and Richard don’t have much in common – except for the shared desire to become classical pianists. But does either of them ...

As children, Ted and Richard don't have much in common - except for the shared desire to become classical pianists. But does either of them ...

In a dramatic love triangle set amidst the splendor of 18th century Paris, a beautiful, social-climbing portrait painter uses her affair with an idealistic Count ...

Three aging WWI French army veterans, a very different "band of brothers," muse on life, the past and what is over the next hill as ...

An evening of one-act plays from a 20th century master of lyrical takes on human nature. From the dreams of lonely, unkempt teenagers in This ...

An evening of one-act plays from a 20th century master of lyrical takes on human nature. From the dreams of lonely, unkempt teenagers in This ...

Portland Stage is creating an enchanting new Mainstage holiday production of The Snow Queen, the beloved fairy tale of devotion, bravery and the triumph of ...

Spend an irreverent evening with Crumpet - one of Santa's little helpers during the holiday rush at Macy's - as he copes with thousands of ...

Don't miss The Public Theatre's critically acclaimed adaptation of this classic story. Rediscover the magic of theatre and the true spirit of the holidays, when ...

Inspired by a true story that rocked the classical music world, concert violinist Erica Morini hires an unassuming violin maker to restore her legendary Stradivarius. ...