After a successful run of The Night Alive, we return to the intimate CoHo Theater to bring you Amy Herzog’s newest drama: Belleville. Company members Isaac Lamb and Rebecca Lingafelter, as well as guest artists Chantal DeGroat and Ricardy Fabre, have been hard at work wrestling with this stunning piece. […]
The night is alive…with pirates! The third show of our 9th Season is Conor McPherson’s moving, humorous, deeply introspective glance at how we define our place in the twisted mess that is life, The Night Alive. Opening February 20th and starring company members (and Portland theatre stalwarts) Damon Kupper, Mike O’Connell, and Rolland Walsh, this […]
Looking for some fun in the new year? Third Rail has exactly what you need! First, we have hilarious entertainment for you, your family, and your friends with the wild quick-change romp: The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam. Critics at the Oregonian named it a “Best Bet” for the winter theatre season, and […]
What is the value of understanding the context within which a play was written or conceived? The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful written by Charles Ludlam in 1984 is a creation of its time and place. The beauty of the ridiculous action is that it withstands the test of time for both its […]
Third Rail Core Company member Philip Cuomo gives us some insights into directing the very funny and challenging The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam. Be sure to bring the whole family to this hilarious, quick-change romp of a play, December 5, 2014 – January 10, 2015. Welcome to The Mystery of Irma Vep. […]
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 […]