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September 2018
Final Dark Follies Show!
Come see Dark Follies for their final outdoor show!! Dark Follies is an award winning vaudeville style variety show based in Portland, Maine. Family friendly while still keeping an edge, Dark Follies features the live music of the Dark Follies Rhythm Orchestra, dancing, juggling, side show acts, fire performers and more. Celebrating their ten year anniversary, this year Dark Follies is showcasing performers who have shared the stage with the troupe over the past decade of their history as street…
Find out more »May 2019
CANCELED: Clowning Workshop with Tennessee Shakespeare Company
***This event has been canceled due to weather. Sadly, it's a rainy day -- and we're concerned for the safety of our clowns jumping, dancing and cavorting on too wet surfaces!*** Interested in learning how to clown?! Come play! Carmen Maria, Education Manager at Tennessee Shakespeare Company will lead a workshop open to the public and passers-by on clowning/physical theater for everyone. All ages, all welcome! Carmen Maria, Education Manager at Tennessee Shakespeare Company, has also worked with Portland Stage…
Find out more »POSTPONED: Interactive Bunraku Puppetry with Figures of Speech Theatre
***This event has been postponed until Saturday, June 8th from 10am-12pm. Sadly, it's too rainy and chilly for the puppets!*** Try your hand at bunraku puppetry in a free playshop with Figures of Speech Theatre! Participants will work in groups of 2-3 puppeteers to animate a single puppet and create short, non-verbal performances, which we’ll share with each other. Along with noh and kabuki, bunraku is one of the “high forms” of theater in Japan. We’ll make it easy…
Find out more »June 2019
“Best Of Hell” with 2Sheets Theater
A smattering of of 2Sheets Theater Company's favorite stories so far. Skunks making love on the hood of a car, bugs looking for honey, Eastern European servants, time traveling accountants. Short and wise tales of hysterical existentialism, warring ideals, and playful philosophy. 2Sheets Theater has been described by the Portland Phoenix thusly: "You never know exactly what you’ll get from 2 Sheets Theater Company, but the small and adventurous collective of friends and collaborators produces original and devised theatrical works…
Find out more »July 2019
24-Hour Theater Marathon with Chimera Theatre Collective
Stage Frenzy is a 24 Hour Theatre Marathon where, over the course of 24 hours, theater artists of various backgrounds, skill-sets, and artistic processes will convene to write, direct, act, design, and perform a freshly written crop of original short plays. Stage Frenzy is an opportunity for theater makers to create theater in its purest form, with little opportunity to over-think or second guess artistic decisions. It is also an opportunity to take risks. This is the time and place…
Find out more »August 2019
“We, Lilith” with Stage Rage
"We, Lilith" will be a devised piece that explores the story of Adam‘s first wife and how she was unfairly kicked out of Eden told in juxtaposition with stories of modern day women and non-binary or gender fluid people. Through movement, song, stories of her told throughout the ages, and our own stories of survival and persistence, with this piece we will no longer be silent. It’s time to scream like the demon goddess herself. Presented by Stage Rage. "Stage…
Find out more »September 2019
POSTPONED: Play Me a Story with Portland Stage
***Risk of rain and lower temperatures means we need to postpone this event until 2020. Stay tuned for a new date!*** Join us for a fun, interactive, and family friendly theatre event hosted by Portland Stage! Experience the Fun & Magic of Theater with Play Me a Story! Enjoy a performance of children’s stories, then participate in an acting workshop with professional theater artists. Build literacy, encourage creativity and spark dramatic dreams!
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