We are very proud to announce our New Play Award Winner for the 2021 Fertile Ground: A City-Wide Festival of New Works, Cat Napper by Kwik Jones  Cat Napper will be produced as a virtual staged reading by PCTG as part of the 2021 Fertile Ground Festival of New Works. This will be a free…

The Endowment Committee has decided that applications for all grants that follow the spirit of the criteria do not need to follow the letter of the criteria. For example: 1) answers DO NOT need to be on separate sheets of paper 2) scanned copies of reference letters may be sent; or 3) you can give…

We regret that, like theatres across the region, we are forced to cancel our 2020-21 season due to the pandemic and concern for the health of our artists and audience. However, we will produce our 2021 New Play Award winner, Cat Napping by Kwik Jones, as part of the 2021 Fertile Ground: City-Wide Festival of…

The definition of fertile:  Producing or bearing many crops in great quantities: PRODUCTIVE Characterized by great resourcefulness of thought or imagination: INVENTIVE A fertile mind:  PLENTIFUL There is no better way to describe what you will experience on our stage. We are very proud to share a reading of the 2020 Portland Civic Theatre Guilds New Play Award Winner, Recent Unsettling Events by Andrea…

The Portland Civic Theatre Guild is seeking submissions from Portland Metro Area playwrights for a new play as part of Fertile Ground 2021.Submissions will be accepted starting February 1, 2020Submission deadline is July 27, 2020. DETAILS• The Portland Civic Theatre Guild will produce a reading of the selected new play by a Portland metro area…

Weather policy: in the event of bad weather, our policy is to follow the Portland Public School’s weather closure. Meaning if they are closed, or have a late opening, we will have to cancel the performance and reschedule it. Listen to the news in the morning, the PPS closure/late start announcements go out really early.