Maureen Porter News

The CoHo Clown CoHort is cooking up the classical music/monster mash-up you never knew you needed, just in time for Fertile Ground 2020. Step into the lab to see what happens when you take Mary Shelley's classic horror novel Frankenstein, mix in elements from James Whale's dark cinematic interpretation along with Abbot & Costello's precise wackiness, throw in classical music legends Beethoven and Chopin (why not?), add a healthy pinch of Romanticism, and distill it all with the pure physical comedy of clowning. The experimental ensemble that brought you Philip's Glass Menagerie and Witch Hunt returns for more Fertile Ground mischief when Beethoven & Chopin Meet the Bride of Frankenstein, January 25 - February 2 at CoHo Theatre.

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls' indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves is a portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.

Third Rail Repertory Theatre announces its 14th Season. This is the Third Rail you know and love... and Third Rail like you've never seen it before. 

In a Syrian city stricken by war, two couples meet for a quiet evening at home. In an intimate theatre in America, four actors attempt to make sense of an intriguing international work of art. Guillermo Calderon's riveting play-within-a-play blazes a trail through the twists and turns of cross-cultural understanding, challenging us to re-frame our notions of life, love, and what's lost in translation. Kiss is a genre-defying play filled with comedy and intrigue, with a riveting conclusion that raises questions about the ethics of theatre and the necessity of trying to imagine the unimaginable. 

WITCH HUNT (featuring Sascha Blocker, Jeff Desautels, Amica Hunter, Emily Newton, and Maureen Porter), draws on Arthur Miller's The Crucible, along with the McCarthy hearings, the Federalist papers, the Puritan work ethic, and current events, to explore our cultural obsession with finger-pointing via modern clown performance.

Third Rail Repertory Theatre announces three Main Stage productions and one concert staging for the company's 13th Season - a set of impactful, inclusive shows produced with rigorous commitment to excellence and an abundance of craft.

It is with mixed emotions that Third Rail Repertory Theatre's Board of Directors announces the departure of Founding Artistic Director, Scott Yarbrough. Yarbrough is leaving Third Rail after a 15-year tenure at the company. 'Fifteen years is a long time in any position and the time is right for me to pursue other possibilities,' said Yarbrough.

In the rehearsal room of a community choir, Claire and her colleague encounter a visitor who makes an impossible demand: I have one bullet left. Which one of you is it for? A flash. An instant. One moment is all it takes to irrevocably change a life, a family, and a community.

In the rehearsal room of a community choir, Claire and her colleague encounter a visitor who makes an impossible demand: I have one bullet left. Which one of you is it for? A flash. An instant. One moment is all it takes to irrevocably change a life, a family, and a community.

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.

Enda Walsh's THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM, starring Lorraine Bahr, Diane Kondrat, Maureen Porter*, and Todd Van Voris, plays Third Rail Repertory Theatre, begins today, Apr 8 - 30, 2016.

Enda Walsh's THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM, starring Lorraine Bahr, Diane Kondrat, Maureen Porter*, and Todd Van Voris, will play Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Apr 8 - 30, 2016.

You're in for a wild ride! [OR THE WHALE] is the center of what Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble calls The Journey Play's the Whole Thing, a 'constellation of art objects, events, and experiences' around this play, which is based on Moby Dick.

As a part of their innovative new Membership model, Third Rail announced their Summer and Fall programming at a public event on Monday night. 'In an effort to keep pushing ourselves to innovate,' says Artistic Director Scott Yarbrough, 'this is the first step in a new process. We plan on announcing our shows a quarter at time, at least 6 months out. We want patrons and our community to know that there is always something exciting coming at Third Rail.'

Third Rail Repertory Theatre presents Static by Dan Rebellato, directed by Scott Yarbrough*, running tonight, May 1-24, 2015 at the Imago Theatre in Portland, Oregon.

Third Rail Repertory Theatre presents Static by Dan Rebellato, directed by Scott Yarbrough*, running May 1-24, 2015 at the Imago Theatre in Portland, Oregon.

Middletown is a frustrating play to describe because I want to tell you everything that made me love it, and yet I don't want to tell you anything about it. I want you to go see it and experience it for yourself.

Third Rail opens our season with a play we have been dying to produce since it was the hit of Portland Center Stage's 2009 JAW Festival, MIDDLETOWN by Will Eno. The residents of Middletown lead lives that are probably not too different from ours. They wake up, go to work, say hello to their neighbors, fix the plumbing, seek advice on parenting, and try to live lives that are as rewarding as possible. It's all fairly ordinary. And yet...ordinary doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of this quirky, word-frenzied, refraction of OUR TOWN. MIDDLETOWN is a quizzical fable about life in all its sweetness and pain, joy and wonder, beginnings and endings.