Portland Playback will be performing at Portland’s first annual Improv Fest at the St. Lawrence Arts Center! We’ll be performing on the evening of Thursday, Aug. 5, but several other talented improv groups from Portland will be performing throughout the weekend. Don’t miss it!

$12 at the door, or $10 in advance. Go to the St. Lawrence Arts website to find out more or to buy tickets.

Our First Friday theme for this Friday, August 6, is “Close Calls.”  I remember the time my wife pulled me back just as I was about to step into London traffic (They drive the “wrong way” in England.) or when, on the same trip, I almost left my suitcase, containing my passport and clothes, on the subway. (I rushed in just in time to stop the doors from closing!) Whew!

Perhaps you have a story of a close call or near escape. Bring it in to share and see it “played back” by our improvisors. Portland Playback Theatre is now in its fifth year and has “played back” hundreds of stories. If you haven’t had your story improvisationally enacted you’re really missing something!

This Friday, August 6, 7:30 PM at the First Parish Church at the intersection of Congress and Temple.

$5 to $10 suggested donation.!