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Murder on the Links
Murder on the Links
1/29 - 2/23/2025


This hilarious adaptation of Agatha Christie’s murder mystery takes audiences on an exciting romp through Merlinville-Sur-Mer, France, to find the killer of a rich businessman. ...

Madeleines
Madeleines
3/5 - 3/23/2025


Some family secrets are hard to swallow! Here is a play from a Maine writer, a new play that is already a multi-award winner and ...

Not Quite Almost
Not Quite Almost
4/2 - 5/4/2025


Playwright John Cariani is best known for his first play, Almost, Maine, which has become one of the most popular plays in the world. Almost, ...

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


As the New York Journal-American states, “This is a big one.” Part of the American Theater Canon, this play is sure to have us on ...


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Portland Stage Presents THE SNOW QUEEN


by A.A. Cristi - November 15, 2024

Portland Stage Company will present the timeless tale of love, friendship, and the lengths we go to to care for our loved ones, THE SNOW QUEEN....

ANGELS IN AMERICA PT 2: PERESTROIKA Comes to Portland Stage Company


by Stephi Wild - October 11, 2024

 Portland Stage Company and Dramatic Repertory Company will present ANGELS IN AMERICA PT 2: PERESTROIKA....

Portland Stage Presents The Story Of Margaret Chase Smith In CONSCIENCE


by A.A. Cristi - September 04, 2024

Portland Stage has announced the play CONSCIENCE, depicting the life of trailblazing Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith....

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Announced At Portland Stage Company


by A.A. Cristi - August 02, 2024

Portland Stage Company will bring back the smash comic hit, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG. ...

Opera Maine to Present RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY At Portland Stage


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 28, 2024

Opera Maine's 2024 Studio Artist Program will present two performances of Rappahannock County by celebrated composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Mark Campbell. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Shakespearean Comedies & More Set for Theater At Monmouth 55th Anniversary Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 24, 2024

Theater at Monmouth will celebrate 55 years with the 'Tragedy Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight' season, featuring Shakespearean comedies, Moliere's THE SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS, and more. Learn how to purchase tickets. ...

MANNING by Benhamin Benne Revealed as Clauder Competition Grand Prize Winner 


by Stephi Wild - May 24, 2024

Portland Stage Company will present Clauder Competition Grand Prize Winner MANNING by New England playwright Benjamin Benne....

Review: ANGELS IN AMERICA in the New Millennium at Portland Stage


by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - May 13, 2024

Portland Stage joins forces with the Dramatic Repertory Company to revive Tony Kushner’s multiple award-winning 1991 drama, ANGELS IN AMERICA, in a production that Artistic Director Anita Stewart proudly calls “all Maine-made.”  The company has shouldered the huge task of presenting the sprawling se...

Portland Stage to Present ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART 1- MILLENIUM APPROACHES


by A.A. Cristi - April 17, 2024

Catch the latest production of ANGELS IN AMERICA PT 1, presented by PORTLAND STAGE....

WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME Comes to Portland Stage Company in March


by Stephi Wild - February 28, 2024

Portland Stage Company will present WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME in March. Performances run March 6-24, 2024....

Past Shows

The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen
11/29 - 12/24/2024


A beautiful story to be enjoyed by the whole family! A story of friendship and bravery with magic and a visually striking setting, The Snow ...

CONSCIENCE
9/25 - 10/13/2024


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 ...

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
8/14 - 9/8/2024


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 ...

The Cake
The Cake
4/5 - 4/23/2023


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, ...

August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned


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 ...

Sweet Goats & Blueberry Señoritas


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 ...

A Tuna Christmas
A Tuna Christmas
11/30 - 12/24/2022


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 ...

Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure


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 ...

The Great Leap
The Great Leap
9/14 - 10/2/2022


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
Smoke on the Mountain
8/3 - 8/28/2022


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 ...

The Zero Hour by Madeleine George


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 ...

Sabina
4/4 - 4/22/2022


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 ...

I And You
I And You
3/30 - 4/17/2022


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 ...

The Last Ship To Proxima Centauri


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 ...

Senior Living
1/26 - 2/13/2022


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 Dates
Bad Dates
4/16 - 5/16/2021


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 ...

Bad Dates
4/16 - 5/2/2021


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 ...

OR,” by Liz Duffy Adams. Live on Stage & Digital-on-Demand


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 ...

SENIOR LIVING” LIVE STREAMING THEATRICAL READING:


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 ...

Almost, Maine: The Writer's Cut


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. ...

Talley's Folly
Talley's Folly
10/29 - 11/15/2020


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

Native Gardens
Native Gardens
3/3 - 3/29/2020


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 ...

Almost, Maine
Almost, Maine
1/17 - 2/9/2020


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, ...

Almost, Maine
Almost, Maine
1/17 - 2/9/2020


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, ...

Almost, Maine
Almost, Maine
1/17 - 2/9/2020


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, ...

It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play


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 ...

The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl
The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl
9/24 - 10/13/2019


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. ...

AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’
8/6 - 9/1/2019


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 ...

The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years
4/30 - 5/19/2019


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 ...

Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew
4/2 - 4/21/2019


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 ...

The Half-Light
The Half-Light
2/26 - 3/24/2019


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 Importance of Being Earnest


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 ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
12/1 - 12/24/2018


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 ...

Refuge Malja
Refuge Malja
11/2 - 11/18/2018


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 ...

The Haunting Hour 2.0
The Haunting Hour 2.0
10/24 - 11/3/2018


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: ...

Ben Butler
Ben Butler
9/25 - 10/21/2018


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

Nunsense
Nunsense
8/14 - 9/9/2018


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 ...

SEX AND OTHER DISTURBANCES BY MARISA SMITH


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 ...

THE NICETIES BY ELEANOR BURGESS


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 ...

RED HERRING BY MICHAEL HOLLINGER


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 Conceived & Developed by Abigail Killeen | Written by Rose Courtney Adapted from the short story by Isak Dinesen


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 Roommate by Jen Silverman


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. ...

Dear Elizabeth
Dear Elizabeth
1/12 - 1/14/2018


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

Refuge/Malja


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 ...

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY ADAPTED BY JOE LANDRY


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 ...

Complications from a Fall by Kate Hawley


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 ...

A Staged Reading of WIT AND WISDOM


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 ...

STUDIO SERIES PRODUCTION – THE HAUNTING HOUR


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
From Away
10/30


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 by Lanie Robertson


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 ...

The All Night Strut!
The All Night Strut!
8/15 - 9/10/2017


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 ...

Studio Sereis Workshop Staged Reading of John Cariani’s cul-de-sac


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 ...

MY NAME IS ASHER LEV
3/29 - 4/17/2016


Aaron Posner....


Tammy Ryan....


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

THE MOUNTAINTOP
11/3 - 11/22/2015


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 ...

DANCING AT LUGHNASA
9/29 - 10/25/2015


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 ...

Papermaker
4/21 - 5/17/2015


Monica Wood....

The Whipping Man
2/24 - 3/15/2015


Matthew Lopez....

Our Man in Havana
1/20 - 2/15/2015


Clive Francis....

The Savannah Disputation
The Savannah Disputation
4/22 - 5/18/2014


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 ...

Tribes
Tribes
3/25 - 4/13/2014


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 ...

Veils
Veils
2/25 - 3/16/2014


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 ...

Words By: Ira Gershwin and the Great American Songbook


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 ...

Vigil
10/29 - 11/17/2013


Mainstage: Morris Panych....

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
9/24 - 10/20/2013


August Wilson....

Wittenberg
4/30 - 5/19/2013


Main Stage: - David Davalos....


Studio Theatre: -...

LOVE / SICK
3/26 - 4/21/2013


Main Stage: - John Cariani....

A Song at Twilight
2/26 - 3/17/2013


Main Stage: - Noel Coward....

Greater Tuna
1/22 - 2/17/2013


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

2 Pianos 4 Hands
2 Pianos 4 Hands
6/1 - 7/12/2012


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 ...

2 Pianos 4 Hands
6/1 - 7/1/2012


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 ...

2 Pianos 4 Hands - Portland Stage


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 ...

Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh


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 ...

Heroes
3/27 - 4/22/2012


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 ...

Hidden Tennessee
2/28 - 3/18/2012


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 ...

Hidden Tennessee
Hidden Tennessee
2/28 - 3/18/2012


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 ...

Trouble Is My Business
1/24 - 2/19/2012

The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen
12/2 - 12/24/2011


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 ...

The Santaland Diaries
The Santaland Diaries
11/25 - 12/18/2011


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 ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
12/9 - 12/11/2011


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 ...

God of Carnage
11/1 - 11/20/2011

The Morini Strad
The Morini Strad
9/27 - 10/23/2011


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. ...

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