Edgar Allan News

Baltimore's Everyman attempts a pre-Halloween scare with WAIT UNTIL DARK now through Oct. 9th.

Greenhouse Ensemble managing director, Reanna Armellino and artistic director, Hazen Cuyler have announced the dates and times for its Fall production, 'The House of Yes' a comedy by Wendy MacLeod.'It's the kind of play that we passed around to the company members and everyone just laughed and laughed, said Cuyler, who also directs. 'People were actually laughing out loud,' added Armellino, 'So the decision was easy.'

On October 26th and 28th, Unison Media's performance series The Crypt Sessions will celebrate Halloween early with the world premiere of pianist/composer Gregg Kallor's dramatic canata based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, featuring mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Pojanowski, cellist Joshua Roman, and Kallor himself at the piano.

Discover Poe's New York on Edgar Allan Poe In Greenwich Village, a two-hour literary and historical walking tour that steps into the Greenwich Village of the 1840s, where Poe lived and worked at the height of his fame - before plunging irrevocably into the final, abysmal chapter of his short life.

'Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe' is an unforgettable new musical play about one of the world's most famous and fascinating writers. Blending fact and fiction, the show's unique operatic score uses poetic dialogue, eerie sound effects, underscored verse, and haunting songs ranging from Weimar cabaret tunes to rock power ballads, to tell the story of Poe's tormented yet transcendent life.

Greenhouse Ensemble managing director, Reanna Armellino and artistic director, Hazen Cuyler have announced the dates and times for its Fall production, 'The House of Yes' a comedy by Wendy MacLeod.'It's the kind of play that we passed around to the company members and everyone just laughed and laughed, said Cuyler, who also directs. 'People were actually laughing out loud,' added Armellino, 'So the decision was easy.'

The cast, creative team, and crew of 14 LEANDRO ROAD, Theater House of Black's Filipino theatrical adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' recently invited a select group of media outlets to one of their rehearsals.

Coming off the success of Passages: Classics Remixed and a short run series of sold out co-productions, Theatre Unleashed is excited to announce that its Fall Main Stage show will be Matt Ritchey's original work Nevermore, playing Oct. 6-Nov. 5 at The Belfry in North Hollywood.

Chicago -Pegasus Theatre Chicago announces the world premiere of Rutherford's Travels, the adaptation of Charles Johnson's beloved National Book Award-winning novel, "Middle Passage," November 2 - December 4 at Pegasus's resident home Chicago Dramatists, 773 N. Aberdeen. Rutherford's Travels is co-adapted and directed by Pegasus Theatre Producing Artistic Director Ilesa Duncan and co-adapted by David Barr, III, music directed and composed by Shawn Wallace and choreographed by Nicole Clarke-Springer.

An Actor's Revenge: Theatre of Blood at The Alley Theater in Louisville

Wild Eye Releasing has announced the October 11th DVD and Digital HD release of the acclaimed horror anthology TALES OF POE.

Coming off the success of Passages: Classics Remixed and a short run series of sold out co-productions, Theatre Unleashed is excited to announce that its Fall Main Stage show will be Matt Ritchey's original work Nevermore, playing Oct. 6-Nov. 5at The Belfry in North Hollywood.

Join us as we welcome Spookley the Square Pumpkin and his friends to Stages Theatre Company!

Unbound Productions Executive Director Jonathan Josephson, Artistic Director Paul Millet, and Producing Artistic Director Jeff G. Rack have announced the plays that will be included in WICKED LIT 2016, the company's 8th annual immersive theatre event that will for the 7th year take place at Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery in Altadena, California.

Six world premiere plays and four new adaptations seen first by Chicago audiences were among those receiving nominations by The Jeff Awards Committee. 178 nominations in 32 categories honor Chicago Equity theatrical productions that opened between August 1, 2015 and July 31, 2016.

Discover a world haunted by the escaped works of Edgar Allan Poe, re-imagined as local stories.

Now that "Dracula," after enjoying many sold out evenings and ovations, is in its final week, the actor playing Van Helsing, James Rana, had time to answer a few questions asked by Gayle Stahlhuth, East Lynne Theater Company's artistic director who also directed this spellbinding play based on Bram Stoker's gothic novel.

Theater House of Black, whose members recently staged the Filipino adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca's 'The House of Bernarda Alba, ' seems to have a penchant for houses that are shrouded in mystery. Next off from the group is '#14 Leandro Road,' a Filipino theatrical adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's most celebrated short story, 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' first published in 1839.

The House of Usher, created by Luke Adamson & Dan Bottomley, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, will play at The Hope Theatre, 207 Upper Street, Islington, N1 1RL. Press night: 7.45pm, Thursday 20th October 2016.