Please join us at our usual time and place: 7:30 p.m., CTN5 Studio, 516 Congress Street, Portland.  $5 at the door.

This Friday’s Actors: Bob Bittenbender, Margi Huber, Sandra Sneiderman, Andy Colvin and Erin Curran.

Friday, (January 6) at 7:30 PM at CTN (516 Congress Street, right next to the Maine College of Art). Bring a story, or just come to enjoy this unique community event. You’ll be glad you did.

Our First Friday theme for November 4 is “Dancing with Mother Nature.” How has nature figured into your life? As a sanctuary in times of stress? As an adversary, a deadly foe? Come and share your story and let us play it back! Or just come to witness this important community event!

PORTLAND PLAYBACK THEATRE is now in its sixth year and has ennacted hundreds of audience stories.

This uniquely satisfying community event happens EVERY FIRST FRIDAY at our new location of CTN5 at 516 Congress St., right next to MECA.

Friday, November 4 at 7:30 PM. Bring a friend! Just $5 at the door. No reservations.

Join us for an evening walk through Eastern Cemetery and listen to them recall tales of their lives in Portland–and deaths on the high seas.  This year, selected spirits were taken in tragic shipwrecks.  They come from the past and the briny deep to bring you a message.  What is it?  You’ll have to walk among the shadows to find out.

Actors from Portland Playback will be channeling these spirits October 20, 21, and 22 (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) from 6:30-7:30.  Tours leave every 15 minutes; $10 at the gate, and $5 for kids under 12.  Proceeds go to preserve Eastern Cemetery.

Get more information at www.spiritsalive.org.

Portland Playback Theatre Co. is delighted to announce our participation in bringing to life some very interesting characters stitched into the history of Yarmouth Maine.  We are the recipients of a grant from Yarmouth Arts to re-enact some of the stories found in Yarmouth’s historical houses and places.

Find out about Thomas Greene – first Baptist minister – who moolighted as Yarmouth’s physician, And who murdered Margaret Williams and why did it take so long to solve that mystery? And why did Henry Haley hang himself from the mill tower? Come for a tour and treats October 29th and 30th!

Find out about getting tickets here. 

Our monthly First Friday performances will now be held at CTN5, the community television network studio at 516 Congress Street, right next door to the Maine College of Art. This move will land us right into the middle of the First Friday arts district scene. The move will also provide us with professional theater lighting. (Hurray!) Although we anticipate collaborating with CTN on some video projects, our performances remain live and unrecorded.

Please join us for our first performance at CTN on Friday July 1st. Our theme will be “Bloopers” – stories of your favorite goof-ups and faux pas. Bring a friend! Remember, we’re nothing without you and the stories from your life!

7:30 p.m., just $7 at the door.

Ouch! Love hurts! But along with the inevitable agonies, what bliss! In honor of Valentines Day, Portland Playback Theatre once again honors stories of romantic love, even though the steam has barely evaporated from our last trist with this theme last February!

This Friday, February 4th at 7:30PM at the First Parish Church (at the intersection of Congress and Temple (just up the street from the Nickelodeon Cinema. Bring a story from your life. Experience the unique satisfaction of watching it performed! Or just come to enjoy! As always with affairs of the heart, you’ll be spellbound!

Bring a friend! Just $7 at the door.

7:30 p.m.

First Parish Church, corner of Congress and Temple Streets, Portland

$5

Ouch! Love hurts! But along with the inevitable agonies, what bliss!

Join us on First Friday in February as Portland Playback Theatre once again honors stories of romantic love, even
though the steam has barely evaporated from our last trist with this theme!

Every month, Portland Playback Theatre puts five actors at your disposal to
replay the stories from your life. Experience the unique satisfaction of
watching your stories performed or just come to watch. As always with
affairs of the heart, you’ll be spellbound!

You can read the article here. Enjoy!