You’re officially invited to the 10th Annual PortFringe POP-UP event, a macabre and campy soiree featuring performance art derived from the short stories and poetry of Edgar Allan Poe.

Saturday, April 5
7:00pm (6:30PM doors open)
Oxbow Blending & Bottling
49 Washington Ave, Portland

Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door for a “Masque of the Red Death” night of performances by some of your favorite local artists (see below), photo opps, and other ghastly amusements, all inspired by the father of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. A cash bar featuring Oxbow Brewing Company farmhouse ales and lagers, as well as non-alcoholic options, will be available.

A fine art raffle will feature one-of-a-kind works of art, plus a live “Bad Art” Auction –with all proceeds supporting the upcoming 13th PortFringe Festival in June 2025. Poe-inspired attire (whatever that means to you!) is encouraged! 

If you have any barriers to attending POP-UP POE, please reach out to us at portfringe@gmail.com.

What is PortFringe POP-UP? Our annual fundraising event is an exhilarating, one-of-a-kind, community experience in which local performance artists, chosen by random lottery, are each assigned one chapter of a classic work and tasked with presenting it in just 5 minutes. Planned and rehearsed with no coordination with the other artists, this year’s scenes will be performed in pairs, for the first (and only!) time on April 5.

This year’s lineup of Maine performance artists include:

• Allen Adams (Bangor)
• Brass Handles Productions (South Portland)
• The Content Collective (Portland)
• Marie Elizabeth (Portland)
• Fox Bramble (Portland)
• Sabrina Gallego (Portland)
• GenZ (Portland)
• Mad Horse Adjacent (South Portland)
• Out There Theatre Company (Portland)
• Pine State Pitches (Portland)
• Suze Quackenbush (Biddeford)
• Roundtable Theatre Co.
• Arwyn Sherman (Bath)
• Tandem Theatre Collective (Portland)