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…

Portland Area Playwrights! Do you have a new play you would like read for Fertile Ground 2020? The Portland Civic Theatre Guild is seeking submissions from Portland Metro Area playwrights…

Mary Brand, founded the Portland Civic Theatre Guild in 1958. This $2000 Mary Brand Award is directed to individuals and programs that involve young people in theatre education as participants,…

5/24/19 Much like theatre, oftentimes life does not go as planned. My original proposal to the Portland Civic Theatre Guild was to work with the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble; helping to…

The Portland Civic Theatre Guild presents Featuring four intriguing plays from the world stage, and introducing three outstanding new works by Portland area playwrights!  October 1     Crooked Numbers **  …

The Portland Civic Theatre Guild renames The Portland Civic Theatre Award in Support of Theatre and seeks applications for awards and fellowships totaling $10,000. In honor of the memory of…

Staged letter 2018 Mary Brand Theatre for Youth Award, $2000 to Staged! Musical Theatre to help produce Spring Awakening. Patrick W letter 2018 Leslie O. Fulton Fellowship, $5000 to Patrick Walsh to travel to Australia to work…

The Portland Civic Theatre Guild is delighted to announce that Shakespeare’s Skull by Portland playwright Rich Rubin will be the 2019 Fertile Ground New Play reading for the Portland Civic Theatre Guild’s…

October – Foxfire by Susan Cooper & Hume Cronin will be directed by David Mitchem Brown.  David got his start acting and dancing at age 11 and enjoyed a busy stage career before…