One of Third Rail’s exciting new projects this season is our Student Subscription Program. With your help, these students will experience the magic of live theater and the community of Third Rail all season long. A recent study at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, found that “Live theater enhance(s) literary knowledge, tolerance and empathy among students.” For […]
Last year Third Rail made a splash at the holidays with our record-setting production of NOISES OFF, which many consider the funniest play written in the past 25 years. This year we’re at it again with perhaps the funniest American play of the past 25 years: Charles Ludlam’s quick change romp, THE MYSTERY OF IRMA […]
The local critics loves the show: Real People People Inhabit “Middletown” at Third Rail Rep On the mysteries of the universe. Meandering through ‘Middletown’ and life It’s funny as hell and you will laugh your ass off. It’s better than getting a catalog. Yeah. You get the mail, it’s a clothes catalog. Maybe you leaf […]
Performances Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30 PM and Sundays at 2 PM, this weekend and next! Go see it and experience it for yourself. You will smile, laugh, and talk back to the play… read morePatrick Brassell A curious meditation on the shadow dance between the profound and the mundane… read moreMarty Hughley, Arts […]
We kick off our ninth season with a play Third Rail has 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 […]