Edgar Allan News

Unbound Productions Co-Artistic Directors Jonathan Josephson, Paul Millet, and Jeff G. Rack have announced the line-up for the 5th Anniversary Production of the popular horror story adaptation series WICKED LIT that will take place at Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery in Altadena, California. The production will run from October 4-November 2, 2013 and feature world premiere adaptations of H.P Lovecraft's The Lurking Fear and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The New Catacomb as well as a revival of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

On the heels of last year's sold out production, The Philadelphia Opera Collective has decided to continue to push the boundaries of what defines opera with a work of their own creation. Opera Macabre: Edgar Allan Poe Opera is the fourth production by the company. With text in English, it continues their omnipresent mission to engage new and younger audiences with the living, breathing art of opera. Opera Macabre will open the evening of Friday the 13th in September with performances on the 14th, 15th, and 19th. Directed by Brenna Geffers and Musically Directed by Reese Revak, all performances will be held at the well-known Adrienne Theatre Playground - 2030 Sansom St.

Unbound Productions Co-Artistic Directors Jonathan Josephson, Paul Millet, and Jeff G. Rack have announced a special WICKED LIT installation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart which will be staged exclusively at LA Mart in conjunction with ScareLA,during the first annual Los Angeles Halloween Convention (beginning today August 10, and running through tomorrow, August 11). The limited-seating eight-performance run will be staged throughout one of the vacant floors of the 14-story warehouse style building, and feature the full array of theatrical effects and creative artistry that fans of WICKED LIT have come to expect.

Performances for THE STORYTELLERS, a new play based on the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, Robert W. Service and W.W. Jacobs, begin Friday, August 9 as a part of the 17th annual New York International Fringe Festival at New York City's Flamboyan Theater (107 Suffolk Street). Adapted and directed by Abigail Strange (FringeNYC/CapitalFringe's Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame, NYMF's Requiem for a Lost Girl) with original music by Louis Aquiler (Theatreworks USA!), tickets for THE STORYTELLERS range from $15 - $18 and are available at www.FringeNYC.com. The playing schedule for THE STORYTELLERS is as follows: Friday, August 9 at 4:45pm; Saturday, August 10 at 7:15pm; Monday, August 12 at 4:45pm; Wednesday, August 14 at 2:00pm; and Saturday, August 17 at 9:15pm.

THE STORYTELLERS, a new play based on the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, Robert W. Service and W.W. Jacobs, will be adapted and directed by Abigail Strange (FringeNYC/CapitalFringe's Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame, NYMF's Requiem for a Lost Girl) with original music by Louis Aquilar (Theatreworks USA!) as a part of the 17th annual New York International Fringe Festival. THE STORYTELLERS begins performances today, Friday, August 9, 2013 and will play its final performance on Saturday, August 17, 2013 at New York City's Flamboyan Theater (107 Suffolk Street).

MCNY Tours now offers a historical tour of the Bronx's famed Arthur Avenue, The Real Little Italy of New York, which includes your own authentic Arthur Avenue pizza! Through a guided tour by a Bronx native, discover the history, food and sites of the fourth largest borough of New York City.

Trinity Repertory Company, the State Theater of Rhode Island is proud to announce that three new company members have been added to their resident acting company roster - Mia Ellis, Rebecca Gibel and Charlie Thurston. All three performers are Brown/Trinity Rep MFA acting program graduates and no strangers to the Trinity Rep stage, having appeared in multiple productions over the past several seasons. The three join Trinity Rep's current resident acting company members: Stephen Berenson, Angela Brazil, Timothy Crowe, Mauro Hantman, Janice Duclos, Brian McEleney, Phyllis Kay, Anne Scurria, Barbara Meek, Fred Sullivan, Jr., Stephen Thorne, Rachael Warren, and Joe Wilson, Jr.

Now that the world premier of 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' has opened and is enjoying ever-growing and receptive audiences of all ages, the adaptor of this famous Washington Irving tale, James Rana, sat down with Gayle Stahlhuth, artistic director of the Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company, to talk. Like last year's 'The Poe Mysteries,' Stahlhuth is also the director.

Grain of Sand Theatre delivers a powerful drama with 'Tell-Tale.'

THE STORYTELLERS, a new play based on the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, Robert W. Service and W.W. Jacobs, will be adapted and directed by Abigail Strange (FringeNYC/CapitalFringe's Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame, NYMF's Requiem for a Lost Girl) with original music by Louis Aquilar (Theatreworks USA!) as a part of the 17th annual New York International Fringe Festival. THE STORYTELLERS begins performances on Friday, August 9, 2013 and will play its final performance on Saturday, August 17, 2013 at New York City's Flamboyan Theater (107 Suffolk Street).

The art of the concept album, as developed and refined by the Alan Parsons Project over the course of their 10 albums released between 1976 and 1987, is celebrated with the release of I Robot: Legacy Edition (35 th Anniversary).

Unbound Productions Co-Artistic Directors Jonathan Josephson, Paul Millet, and Jeff G. Rack have announced a special WICKED LIT installation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart which will be staged exclusively at LA Mart in conjunction with ScareLA,during the first annual Los Angeles Halloween Convention (August 10-11, 2013). The limited-seating eight-performance run will be staged throughout one of the vacant floors of the 14-story warehouse style building, and feature the full array of theatrical effects and creative artistry that fans of WICKED LIT have come to expect.

Audrey Lavin's murder mystery Eloquent Tattoo is the third entry in her Eloquent Mystery Series, infused with the light satire of its predecessors and featuring the return its heroine, professor (and amateur sleuth) Mary Beth Goldberg, as she sets to unravel a new campus mystery. 'Lap swimming, the work of Edgar Allan Poe, and a simmering romance are amateur sleuth Mary Beth Goldberg's unlikely but invaluable tools as she confronts her latest mystery. Her native ingenuity figures in as well, and when author Audrey Lavin throws in a few slices of pizza and a handful of eccentric college students, these all add up to become the ingredients for irresistible storytelling!' ?Akiko Busch, Nine Ways to Cross a River 'Eloquent is the title, elegant and murderously amusing is this academic mystery. The third in Lavin's eloquent 'whodunit?' series, Eloquent Tattoo is another fun read.' ?Agatha prize winner Rhys Bowen, Naughty in Nice Dr. Audrey Lavin is as well known for her academic articles (published in the U.S., Russia, Spain, the Ukraine, and Chile) as she is for her witty dissections of U.S. college life in her humorous series of eloquent murder mysteries: Eloquent Blood, Eloquent Corpse, and Eloquent Tattoo. A two-time Fulbright Professor in Spain, she has taught in seventeen other countries, and brings some of her international adventures to her whodunits. Audrey lives with her husband in Canton, Ohio. ($15, ISBN: 978-1-937536-12-1, LCCN: 2011945566, 6X9', 162pp)

First Folio Theatre (Mayslake Peabody Estate, 31st St. & Rt. 83), presents the rollicking World Premiere of SHAKESPEARE'S CYMBELINE: A FOLK TALE WITH MUSIC, opening Saturday, June 22 at 8:15 p.m. and running through July 21, 2013. Check out a look back at opening night below!

Celebrating its 50th Anniversary, and its first full season under the combined leadership of Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah and Managing Director Stephen Richard, CENTERSTAGE drew national attention and local acclaim for its groundbreaking stage work, including two World Premieres; special artistic initiatives; and innovative community programs-raising the bar for the Theater's next 50 years.

There is a new detective in the world of literature, and he's hitting the mark with mystery lovers, history buffs and SteamPunk aficionados alike right from his first appearance in the novel 'Forevermore.'

Music Theatre of Madison's performance of Edgar Allan Poe's Nevermore leaves audiences thrilled, haunted.

First Folio Theatre (Mayslake Peabody Estate, 31st St. & Rt. 83), will present the rollicking World Premiere of SHAKESPEARE'S CYMBELINE: A FOLK TALE WITH MUSIC, previewing tonight, June 19, opening Saturday, June 22 at 8:15 p.m., and running through July 21, 2013.