Closing weekend. The last few chances to sit in the theatre with 4 amazing actors and experience Will Eno’s hilarious, poignant story before it is gone. Last few chances to see Rebecca Lingafelter’s beautiful Third Rail directorial debut! That’s right, we are saying goodbye to The Realistic Joneses. Critics and audiences love this show, and frankly, […]
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This week at Third Rail
October 26 – November 1, 2015 Do you want to know what Third Rail has up our sleeves for the coming week? Then you have come to the right place. It’s time for: This Week at Third Rail! The Realistic Joneses is up and running and we have a hit on our hands. Audiences are loving it […]
October 19 – October 25, 2015
OPENING WEEK! We start this week with tech rehearsals for The Realistic Joneses, wherein we integrate nearly all of the show’s technical elements. We’ll follow that with dress rehearsals, which (as the name implies) adds costumes, the final piece of the theatrical puzzle. Well, not the final piece of the puzzle. That comes with previews when we first bring […]
The Realistic Joneses Dramaturgy
The Realistic Joneses. Meet Jennifer and Bob. They’re the Joneses. Meet Pony and John. They’re also the Joneses. They’re next door neighbors. Keeping up with them can feel awfully familiar in this hilarious and humane look at how we live. Literate and slyly hilarious, this award-winning play dives deep below the surface with probing grace. […]
October 5 – October 11, 2015
This is a week of change at Third Rail as we move from one play to another! This weekend is your last chance to see Or, – the story of Aphra Behn that covers “the thoughtful and the madcap, the silly and sublime, the sociologically resonant and the fancifully theatrical” (Oregon Artswatch). Or, is a […]
October 2015
October is shaping up to be an exciting month at Third Rail. Honestly, all of the months are exciting here but we really do believe October is going to be particularly special (and you can tell July we said that!). Why will October be so notable? Or, Closes October 10 So, we start the month […]
September 2015
As you know, every week, Third Rail sends out detailed information about what exciting events and projects we have for the coming week. But! Every four (or so) weeks, we get to give you an overview of a whole month! This is an enticing way to see what you have to look forward to over […]
August 3 – August 9 2015
Hello everyone! Another week, another full slate at Third Rail, another new episode of “Chopped”, and another blog post keeping you updated and informed! First, we continue to sell memberships and increase the number of people who can say “I am a Third Rail member!” Then, after a few giant weeks for us, we have […]
Middletown Vaults to the Top of Third Rail’s Ninth Season
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 […]
