KILLING AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE Returns This Fall

Summoners Ensemble Theatre, in association with the Merchant's House Museum, is pleased to announce the return of Killing an Evening with Edgar Allan Poe. The haunting one-man show that debuted last year to great acclaim returns for 27 performances only this fall at the landmark 1832 Merchant's House Museum (29 E. 4th Street, Manhattan), New York City's only 19th century family home preserved intact.

John Kevin Jones, seen previously over the past 6 years in A Christmas Carol at the Merchant's House, again performs Killing an Evening with Edgar Allan Poe. His Christmas Carol collaborator, director Rhonda Dodd, also helms Killing An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe.

Tickets, priced $45-55 for all performances, are now on sale at www.summonersensemble.org or www.merchantshouse.org or call 866-811-4111. Seating is strictly limited to 40 per performance.

In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe lived on Amity Street (now W. 3rd Street) just blocks from the Merchant's House, home to the Tredwell's, a prosperous merchant-class family. That year his publication of "The Raven" brought him instant fame and invitations to the city's most fashionable literary salons. Join John Kevin Jones (A Christmas Carol at the Merchant's House) as the great American master of horror for a haunting performance of Poe's thrilling tales, "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Raven." The Tredwell's candlelit double parlor will be set for a funeral, complete with coffin and draped mirrors. A bone-chilling evening of irrational revenge, obsession, premeditated murder, dismemberment, and the very, very dark awaits.

The production's performance schedule is:

-Weeks of September 22, September 29, and October 6: Tuesdays-Fridays at 7PM, Saturdays at 6PM and 8PM, Sundays at 6PM.

-Week of October 27: Thursday, October 31 at 7PM and 9PM, Friday, November 1 at 7PM, Saturday, November 2 at 6PM and 8PM, Sunday, November 3 at 6PM.

For more information, please visit www.summonersensemble.org and www.merchantshouse.org.

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