Kick them, punch them, throw them to the mat!
There are the plays for fun and entertainment. There are important plays that focus on universal issues–grief, love, old resentments. Then there are the messy social plays that take on some [...]
Gloria–a searing look at the workplace
Gloria (Foss Curtis) is the office outcast. Every office has one. In Profile Theatre‘s production of the Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play Gloria, the title character periodically schlumps [...]
Of Baking and a Slave Insurrection that never happened
When Martha Washington (Melanie Moseley) appears bound and gagged with an apple, in her own kitchen, a mere few days after the death of her husband and our first President George Washington, [...]
Good twin, bad twin
As with most situations in United States society of the 1950s, meritocracy influenced every aspect of life, especially when it came to females. One was either a good girl and deserving of the [...]
Fertile Ground (Re-imagined) 2021
The Fertile Ground Festival of New Works is alive, well, and just a little different this year! This 12th annual event, a program of the Portland Area Theatre Alliance (PATA), is thrilled to [...]
French royalty, forbidden passion
Queen Marie-Therese (Crystal Ann Munoz) is having a difficult time in the French court. She was hauled from Spain to marry King Louis XIV (Chris Murray). Deemed the ugliest member of the court, [...]
The Moors: Savagery and Moor Hens
In a lonely mansion on the English moors ca. 1840s a Moor Hen bangs into the parlor window with a resounding thump. Agatha (Dana Millican), her younger sister Huldey (Jen Rowe), and A Mastiff [...]
Profile Theatre explores the Lynn Nottage/Bertolt Brecht connection
Tonight through Sunday, December 7, Profile Theatre presents concert stagings of two plays in rotating repertory. Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ruined set in the Democratic Republic [...]