Third Rail Repertory Theatre announces four Main Stage productions for the company's 12th performance season - a set of impactful, inclusive shows produced with rigorous commitment to excellence and an abundance of craft.
"The plays in our upcoming season are breathtaking - they encompass a range of human experience viewed from shared and diverse perspectives," said Maureen Porter, Third Rail's Managing Artistic Director. "Unflinching, gleeful, harrowing and explosive, this season charges toward the essential questions of our time."
This season also sees Third Rail return to familiar venues for their Main Stage performances: two shows will be produced at Imago Theatre in southeast Portland and two at CoHo Theatre in northwest Portland.
2017-2018 Main Stage Flexible Subscriptions and Memberships are on sale now. To purchase, call 503-235-1101 or visit thirdrailrep.org. Flexible subscriptions include four discounted tickets for the subscriber to use in a number of ways for Third Rail's Main Stage productions, priced at $100-Student; $149-Under 30; $149-Seniors; $165-Adult. Service fee is additional. Membership includes access to all Third Rail Main Stage productions, National Theatre Live Presentations, Sunday Salon Series Readings and other Member-only events. Monthly or upfront payments available.
Anyone who subscribes or renews their Third Rail Membership by May 30, 2017 can give a free RAIL IT FORWARD subscription or membership to someone who has not been a subscriber or member before.
Third Rail Repertory Theatre 2017-2018 Season:
Lungs
by Duncan Macmillan
Directed by Rebecca Lingafelter*
Featuring Darius Pierce*
August 4 - August 26, 2017 at CoHo Theatre
Thursday - Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2pm
How exactly does one decide to bring a child into this world - with the oceans, and the climate, and the, you know, everything else? Surely the kid's Eiffel Tower-sized carbon footprint is reason enough not to. But what if baby grows up to solve the world's problems? Then again, what if baby grows up to be a mass murderer? Or what if...? And what if...? If...? What begins as an odd question for a couple in line at Ikea soon becomes much more as they grapple with existence itself as a moral question, in Duncan Macmillan's timely and startlingly funny Lungs.
The Events
by David Greig
Directed by Isaac Lamb*
October 27 - November 18, 2017 at Imago Theatre
Thursday - Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2pm
Men On Boats
by Jaclyn Backhaus
Directed by Maureen Porter*
March 2 - March 24, 2018 at Imago Theatre
Thursday - Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2pm
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.
By Alice Birch
Directed by Rebecca Lingafelter*
May 25 - June 16, 2018 at CoHo Theatre
Thursday - Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2pm
More information about Third Rail can be found at thirdrailrep.org.
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