Edgar Allan Poe News

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Top Hat tells the story of Broadway sensation Jerry Travers who dances his way across Europe to win the heart of society girl Dale Tremont in a riotous mistaken-identity plot. Featuring Irving Berlin's wonderful score including 'Cheek to Cheek', 'Top Hat, White Tie & Tails', 'Let's Face the Music & Dance' and 'Puttin' on the Ritz'.

Join Little Door Theatre as we creep into the Halloween season with our haunting Edgar Allan Poe tribute, Deep into the Darkness. We will be featuring two of Poe's most frightening short stories, The Tell-Tale Heart and Ligeia, and taking a new spin on the original classic tales.

A young playwright rents an attic flat in Brighton, hoping it will break the writer's block that's preventing her from following up on her wildly successful debut. Whilst there, she forms a relationship with her landlady, a lonely young woman with a life-altering condition.

Doctuh Mistuh Productions and Penfold Theatre Company are pleased to bring Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe back to Austin. Nevermore made its regional premiere in Austin in October 2016 and subsequently was the winner of five B. Iden Payne Awards, including Best Musical. The Nevermore revival will run October 25 - November 10 and plays at the Ground Floor Theatre.

For the past five years the very fine actor John Kevin Jones has been drawing packed houses to East 4th Street's 1832 landmark Merchant's House Museum building for Summoners Ensemble Theatre's delightful recreation of Charles Dickens' public readings of 'A Christmas Carol.'

The South Carolina Theatre Association Executive Board announces their 2018 South Carolina Theatre Hall of Fame Inductees.

Valley Performing Arts is presenting NIGHTFALL WITH EDGAR ALLEN POE, running from October 19 to November 4. 

Black Button Eyes Productions concludes its 2018-19 season with the Chicago storefront premiere of EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL, a parody of Sam Raimi's classic Evil Dead horror films, with book and lyrics by George Reinblatt and music by Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla, Melissa Morris and George Reinblatt. Directed by Producing Artistic Director Ed Rutherford with music direction by Oliver Townsend and choreography by Derek Van Barham, the spooky send-up will play January 11 - February 16, 2019 at Pride Arts Center (The Broadway), 4139 N. Broadway in Chicago.

Come and see the culmination of our Classics-in-Action horror trilogy and our first-ever performance in repertory! Just in time for Halloween, take your pick from our adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. With our customary fidelity to the text, immersive staging, high-energy tone-shifting performances, and custom cocktail pairings, join us as we explore Poe's lonesome paranoia, Stoker's deadly seductive hunt, and Shelley's arrogant despair in this unique theatrical event. The productions contain some scary content, but are appropriate for all ages. Each ticket includes a custom drink for our 21+ guests. Running time for each show is approximately an hour. The Horror Rep runs from October 18th to November 10th at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop.

Lost Nation Theater presents The Poe Spooktacular Halloween - one night only Saturday October 27th as Montpelier City Hall Arts Center is transformed into a hauntingly hip atmospheric chamber for dancing and eerie entertainment!

The Lakewood Playhouse is proud to present a SPECIAL EVENT for our 80th SEASON: The RETURN ENGAGEMENT of Last Year's Wildly Popular Performance - The One Man Show AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE featuring Tim Hoban. 

THEATRE AT ST. JOHN'S Presents Radiotheatre's 10th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Festival: ARKHAM, Written/Directed/Music by Dan Bianchi Sound Design by Dan Bianchi/Wes Shippee

The Suffolk University Theatre Department is proud to announce Wesley Savick's fantastical play, Loss of Breath:  The Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe. Loss of Breath weaves together Poe's stories and biography with sideshow illusion, puppetry, and Japanese Noh Theatre. The Puppet Showplace Theater has created puppets and masks to depict a realm between life and death, the dwelling place of Poe, his mother, spouse, Annabel Lee, ghosts and other ghastly creatures.…. and a middle-school English teacher from Indiana.

Tickets for the world premiere staged readings of POE the Musical are now on sale online exclusively through Brown Paper Tickets. Click HERE to purchase.

Just in time for Halloween, Strawdog Theatre Company launches its 31st season with the world premiere of MASQUE MACABRE, a dark and bloody thrill ride inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe - think Carrie meets Eyes Wide Shut. The handlers of a 'bad boy' entrepreneur go to extremes to give him one last big bash before his past catches up to him. An explorative immersive theatre experience a la Sleep No More, guests travel from room to room throughout the space and follow stories of revenge and murder as they play out in real time.

Tickets for the world premiere staged readings of POE the Musical are now on sale online exclusively through Brown Paper Tickets. Click HERE to purchase.

Summoners Ensemble Theatre, in association with the Merchant's House Museum, is pleased to announce Killing An Evening with Edgar Allen Poe, a haunting new solo showcase that will play ten 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, inside and out.

Doctuh Mistuh Productions and Penfold Theatre Company are pleased to bring Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe back to Austin. Nevermore made its regional premiere in Austin in October 2016 and subsequently was the winner of five B. Iden Payne Awards, including Best Musical. The Nevermore revival will run October 25 - November 10 and plays at the Ground Floor Theatre.

Jobsite Theater, hot on the heels of their record-smashing season opener in Hedwig and The Angry Inch, continues their 20th Anniversary Season with a new comedy about two of America's most beloved dark literary figures just in time for Halloween! Joseph McDonough's Edgar & Emily is on stage Oct. 12 - Nov. 4 in the Shimberg Playhouse at the Straz Center where Jobsite is resident theater company.