Mad Horse Theatre Company was founded in 1986 in Portland as a professional resident theater ensemble. The Company quickly developed a reputation for innovative interpretations of cutting-edge contemporary plays as well as the dramatic classics. After performing in a variety of venues, we secured a lease on our own building in 2009 from the city of South Portland. Being in our own space allows the actors to create and rehearse a production in the same 50 seat black-box theater where it will be performed.

Our mission has been the driving force behind a history of productions that, we believe, have added to Maine’s artistic enrichment and to the social discourse that is at the heart of a strong community. It is our sincere hope that the audience’s experience is entertaining and engaging.

“Our mission is to produce plays which compassionately examine and illuminate the enduring aspects of the human experience.

Our work focuses on areas of social concern, personal transformation and the building of lasting community relationships. ”

Production History

2023-2024

POTUS
White
Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Tumacho

2022-2023

When We Were Young & Unafraid
Straight White Men
Quills
Dance Nation

2021-2022

You Got Older
Dying to Know
Waiting for Alice
Collective Rage
Homecoming: An Odyssey

2015-2016

Lysistrata
Trevor
Digby's Home
Stupid F**king Bird

2014-2015

A View from the Bridge
Kimberly Akimbo
Alligator Road
Other Desert Cities

2013-2014

The School for Lies
Vigils
Orphans
Grey Gardens

2012-2013

Titus Andronicus
November
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
A Six Pack of Miller

2011-2012

MAIN STAGE:
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Becky Shaw
The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds
Circle Mirror Transformation

DARK NIGHT SERIES:
Thom Pain
The Maids
Uncle Bob
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

2010-2011

MAIN STAGE:
Six Degrees of Separation
The Goat, or who is Sylvia?
The Late Henry Moss
Spring Awakening

DARK NIGHT SERIES:
Midge's Section
The Play About the Baby
Home Free
Shameless! The Musical

2009-2010

MAIN STAGE:
The Dresser
Dead Man's Cell Phone
The Maiden's Prayer
The Normal Heart

DARK NIGHT SERIES:
The Cryptogram
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
Voice Lessons
Heartbreak Help

2008-2009

MAIN STAGE:
The Children's Hour
The Clean House
The History Boys

DARK NIGHT SERIES:
One For The Road
Mr. Happiness
Cloudhoppers
The Actor's Nightmare
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
Crazy Eights, Baby Food, That Other Person

2007-2008

Of Mice and Men
The Pillowman
Hedda: A Re-Vision

2006-2007

Bug
Joe Egg
Long Day’s Journey Into Night

2005-2006

Boston Marriage
Baby With The Bathwater
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

2004-2005

Cloud 9
What Happened Was…
Drunks

2003-2004

The Mercy Seat
The Bacchae
Wonder of the World

2002-2003

The Laramie Project
Suburban Motel:
Problem Child
Criminal Genius
Featuring Loretta
Risk Everything

2001-2002

The Free Company Presents
12 Angry Men
Bash: Latterday Plays
Three Viewings

2000-2001

Bash: Latterday Plays
Three Viewings
The Ugly Man

1999-2000

A Streetcar Named Desire
Skylight
Off the Map
What the Butler Saw

1998-1999

Angels In America: Perestroika
Road to Nirvana
Three Sisters
Repossession

1997-1998

Hamlet
Criminal Hearts
Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune
Angels In America: Millennium Approaches

1996-1997

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum
Lonely Planet
Alabama Rain
Lloyd’s Prayer
The Scarlet Letter
Misery

1995-1996

King Lear
Keely and Du
Keeping Tom Nice
The Women of My Father’s House
Scotland Road

1994-1995

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Apocalyptic Butterflies
The Swan
Under The Skin
The Marriage of Bette and Boo

1993-1994

All My Sons
Kingfish
Down The Road
Goodnight Desdemona, (Good Morning Juliet)
Two
Greater Tuna

1992-1993

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Red Address
Betrayal
Better Days
The House of Blue Leaves
Claudia Shear: Blown Sideways Through Life

1991-1992

Dark River
Insignificance
In Perpetuity Throughout The Universe
A Life In The Theatre
The Passion of Dracula
An Unfinished Song

1990-1991

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
The Dumbwaiter
Reckless
Tent Meeting
A View From The Bridge
Pinter 2

1989-1990

Squats
Working
Laughing Wild
When You Comin' Back Red Ryder
Morocco

1988-1989

The Crackwalker
Praying Mantis
Bigfoot Stole My Wife
El Grande De Coca Cola
The Homecoming

1987-1988

You Cant Get There From Here
The Indian Wants The Bronx
Line
Coyote Ugly
Brecht On Brecht
Snow LeopardsSnow Leopards by Martin Jones
Directed by Martin Jones
Stage Managed by Ginger Myhaver
Lisa Stathoplos
Deborah Hall

1986-1987

The Lover
Birdbath
God
The Actor's Nightmare
Vanishing Points

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