Edgar Allan Poe News

Central Ohio families are invited to celebrate Halloween with the Columbus Symphony's special “Halloween Spooktacular” free family concert. CSO Music Director Rossen Milanov leads the musicians of the Columbus Symphony in a 45-minute, Halloween-themed concert offering the perfect blend of popular, spooky selections from the worlds of classical and pops.

The experience opened on Wednesday, October 21st, 2020 to a sold-out, socially-distanced, mask-wearing audience at Old Sturbridge Village in central Massachusetts.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company continues its Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon Series on Friday, October 30 with a Salon of Southern Gothic and Northern Supernatural writers to haunt the holiday.

DCT's THE RAVEN SOCIETY takes a forward-thinking, digital twist on Edgar Allan Poe's most classic work. In THE RAVEN SOCIETY, a group of nine teens who usually convene at midnight in the graveyard to recite and discuss 'The Raven' have to relocate their spooky gathering this year to the online platform Zoom due to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Peninsula Players Theatre is thrilled to announce, in collaboration with Chicago Radio Theatre, a dramatic live audio production of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' adapted and directed by Kevin Christopher Fox. The live broadcast will be available on the website of Peninsula Players Theatre Friday, October 23, at 9 p.m. 

The award-winning Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company presents one of its most popular events, 'Poe by Candlelight,' outside, just in time for Halloween. The date is the same as previously scheduled, Saturday, October 24, but the time is now 5:30PM, and the location is West Cape May's Back Yard, 732 Broadway, behind the Fire Hall.

Pittsburgh Public Theater will present Alec Silberblatt's new rendering of Edgar Allan Poe's stories, A Tell-Tale Heart as part of the Public PlayTime: Classics N'at benefit series October 22-25. Nearly 24,000 audience members have joined the virtual benefit series since its inception in March.

Called a?oeOne of the most unique theater troupes in the country.a?? by Good Day Atlanta, Phantasmagoria's Plague Tales thunders onto the virtual stage with 5 newly told Tales of Terror! Haunted Storytelling, a?oePhantasticala?? dance, explosive stage combat, puppetry, projections, Fire Dancing, Aerial arts and much, MUCH more combine to create a tapestry of elegant and whimsically macabre horror!

In its continuing mission to help address the absence of live theater performances, First Folio Theatre will offer a streaming video recording of MADMEN & PRISONERS: TWO TALES BY POE, adapted for the stage by David Rice and directed by Skyler Schrempp.

After the huge success of Anne of Green Gables: Part I, NYC's Royal Family Productions, a theatre company known for its innovative productions and development of new original work, will produce an eerie Halloween special.

Coterie Theatre's production of Electric Poe is now available to rent, virtually!

Lost Nation Theater is back with LIVE performance, this time a-top Montpelier City Hall, Friday October 16th a?" as part of Montpelier Alive's a?oeMontpelier Madnessa?? Celebrations.

The acclaimed Peabody Award-winning Apple Original comedy series 'Dickinson' will officially return for its second season on Friday, January 8, 2021.

Lost Nation Theater's founder and artistic director Kim Allen Bent, takes the stage a?" a top the Montpelier City Hall Portico to perform a?" Live and in person -  Edgar Allan Poe's haunting poem a?oeThe Raven.a?? 

NEVERMORE-The Fantastic Terrors of Edgar Allan Poe is an outdoor theatrical experience where the short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe come alive as the sun goes down on a mid-19th century New England village.

Orlando-based Victorian Horror Troupe Phantasmagoria takes fiendish delight in bringing its long-running, critically-acclaimed, Steampunk-influenced series to the Hudson Valley as part of their first ever virtual tour!

WRITE OUT LOUD, an organization founded in 2007 with a commitment to inspire, challenge and entertain by reading literature aloud for a live audience, announces the third Annual San Diego (VIrtual) PoeFest, streaming from October 23rd - November 1st. PoeFest is produced by Write Out Loud in partnership with Save Our Heritage Organisation. 

The company today announced that it will present Kim Exum, Cheech Manohar, Gillian Saker & Meaghan Sands in X PART ONE: THE INSIDIOUS, a new online interactive installation, written by Jason Veasey, conceived and directed by Aaron Salazar, with music by Manuel Pelayo & Giancarlo Bonfanti & Matt Katz.

Alvarez Keko Salazar Productions Presents Poseidon Theatre Company's DRAMA - an aural experience - the podcast. Written by New York Times Best Selling Author Jeffrey James Keyes (Killer Chef with James Patterson). Directed by Aaron Salazar (Featured in the New York Times, NY Post, NY Daily News, TimeOut New York & Wall Street Journal & Winner of Immersion Nation Award for Best Environmental Immersion 2019, & Best Shows and Experiences 2018 from No Proscenium).

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the premiere of Awake at Night, a virtual reading of modern takes on stories by Edgar Allan Poe, adapted by Will Pomerantz, on Wednesday, October 21, at 8 p.m. at baystreet.org.