ADVANCE TICKET SALES HAVE NOW ENDED!
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE VENUE STARTING AT 6:00PM ON SATURDAY APRIL 5

Oxbow Blending & Bottling
49 Washington Ave, Portland


Click the program cover to the left, or click the the button below to download a digital program for POP-UP POE!

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.

Tickets are $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.

The event will also feature a Progressive Raffle featuring an original work of fine art and additional tiers of Poe- and Fringe-themed prizes, 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)