Portland Stage

25A Forest Avenue
Portland

Past Shows

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

May 14 – Jun 1, 2025

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...

Not Quite Almost

Apr 2 – May 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,...

Madeleines

Mar 5 – Mar 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...

Murder on the Links

Jan 29 – Feb 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....

The Snow Queen

Nov 29 – Dec 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

Sep 25 – Oct 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

Aug 14 – Sep 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

Apr 5 – Apr 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

Mar 1 – Mar 19, 2023

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

Jan 25 – Feb 12, 2023

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

Nov 30 – Dec 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

Oct 26 – Nov 20, 2022

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

Sep 14 – Oct 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

Aug 3 – Aug 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

Jun 11

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

Apr 4 – Apr 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

Mar 30 – Apr 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...

FeaturedThe Last Ship To Proxima Centauri

Mar 2 – Mar 20, 2022

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

Jan 26 – Feb 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

Apr 16 – May 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...

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

Jan 29 – Feb 14, 2021

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:

Jan 22

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...

Almost, Maine: The Writer's Cut

Nov 7 – Nov 21, 2020

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

Oct 29 – Nov 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

Mar 3 – Mar 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

Jan 17 – Feb 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

Nov 29 – Dec 24, 2019

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

Sep 24 – Oct 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’

Aug 6 – Sep 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

Apr 30 – May 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

Apr 2 – Apr 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

Feb 26 – Mar 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

Jan 22 – Feb 17, 2019

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

Dec 1 – Dec 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

Nov 2 – Nov 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

Oct 24 – Nov 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

Sep 25 – Oct 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

Aug 14 – Sep 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

May 1 – May 20, 2018

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

Apr 3 – Apr 22, 2018

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

Feb 27 – Mar 25, 2018

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

Jan 23 – Feb 18, 2018

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....

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Maine SHOWS

	Hairspray Maine State Music Theatre (6/03-6/20)
	1776 Maine State Music Theatre (6/24-7/11)
	Parker McCollum at Maine Savings Amphitheater Maine Savings Amphitheater (9/03-9/03)
	Count Arthur Strong - And Its Goodnight From Me! Monmouth Savoy Theatre (3/05-3/05)
	The Marvelous Wonderettes! Community Little Theatre Corp (6/19-6/28)
	Rainbow Kitten Surprise Thompson's Point (9/13-9/13)
	Captain Jack & The Strangers: A Tribute to Billy Joel Maine State Music Theatre (7/26-7/27)
	Disney & Pixar's FINDING NEMO: A 60-Minute Family Musical Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine (6/27-8/23)
	Wishes in the Meadow 2026 Garden Party 301 River Rd (6/27-6/27)
	Robin & Clark's The Little Mermaid Maine State Music Theatre (7/20-7/20)
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