MARK ALLEN PLAYERS

The Mark Allen Players was a theater company founded in 1957 by Mark Allen (1923-1994) in Portland, Oregon. In the 1980s it leased a theater in the Willamette Center and became known as Willamette Repertory Theatre. It later changed its name again to Portland Repertory Theater. The company dissolved in early 1998. Notation per Yaw's Top Notch dinner theater poster - Archives West (orbiscascade.org)

Mark Allen produced out of the Benson Hotel Dinner Theater in the Crystal Room in downtown Portland. One gay show he produced was “Norman is that you?” The review cited in the Northwest Gay Review newspaper June 1975.