04/06/2026
📣 We’re thrilled to announce PTF’s 6th Season—and this one feels like something special.
It was a busy, rewarding off-season: watching plays, reading new work, building relationships with artists we admire. Through all of it, we kept coming back to the same question: what can theater offer us right now that feels useful? This season, we think we’ve found three answers.
These are plays about the “monsters” we live alongside—the past that lingers, the habits that take hold, the systems that test our collective values. Plays about confronting truth: in the wider world, in ourselves, in where we’ve come from and how it still defines us. Three strikingly different works, and one question running through all of them: what are the forces that shape our lives—and what does it take to face them?
1️⃣ THE MONSTERS by Ngozi Anyanwu (June 25–July 12) Two siblings. A shared past that won’t stay buried. A fierce, intimate play about family, identity, and fighting your way back to one another. Presented in the Studio Theater .
2️⃣ OCTET by Dave Malloy (July 23–Aug 9)—PTF’s first musical! Eight strangers. A support group for internet addiction. A haunting, exhilarating a ca****la musical about what we lose when we drift from each other—and what it takes to return. Staged immersively in the basement of the .
3️⃣ AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Amy Herzog (Aug 20–Sept 6) Fresh from a sold-out Broadway run, this searing adaptation feels like it was written yesterday. A doctor uncovers a truth that could upend his town—and speaking out costs everything. Presented at the brand-new Crewe Center for the Arts on ‘s Portland campus!
We’re also launching the USM/PTF Apprentice Program this summer—a paid, immersive opportunity for emerging artists from USM. Creating pathways for the next generation is essential to the future of this field, and we can’t wait to see it come to life.
Tickets and full details coming soon. See you this summer!
🎨 Poster designs by the brilliant Michael Kauffman
