Edgar Allan Poe News

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 10/24 for Rhode Island

Beginning October 26, Rep Stage will present The Poe Show at the Smith Theatre Horowitz Center.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 10/17 for Vermont

So begins this deliciously dark dreamscape about literary sensation and master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. Just in time for Halloween, Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe uses haunting song, poetic storytelling and surreal imagery to explore the events that shaped Poe's career and ignited his lifelong battle with 'visions dark and sinister that never cease.' From Canada's Catalyst Theatre, this bizarrely beautiful production recently completed an extremely successful run at the Barbican in London. For those who fancy 'the ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore,' don't miss the spooky, stylish spectacle that is NEVERMORE!

Tony Award nominee Alan Campbell will begin playing Dr. Seward in the Carolina Ballet's production of DRACULA beginning October 14 and running through October 31 at the A.J. Fletcher Theater of the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina. The ballet, is based on the novel by Bram Stoker and will be choreographed by two-time Tony Award nominee Lynne Taylor-Corbett.

So begins this deliciously dark dreamscape about literary sensation and master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. Just in time for Halloween, Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe uses haunting song, poetic storytelling and surreal imagery to explore the events that shaped Poe's career and ignited his lifelong battle with 'visions dark and sinister that never cease.' From Canada's Catalyst Theatre, this bizarrely beautiful production recently completed an extremely successful run at the Barbican in London. For those who fancy 'the ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore,' don't miss the spooky, stylish spectacle that is NEVERMORE!

Tony Award nominee Alan Campbell will begin playing Dr. Seward in the Carolina Ballet's production of DRACULA beginning October 14 and running through October 31 at the A.J. Fletcher Theater of the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina. The ballet, is based on the novel by Bram Stoker and will be choreographed by two-time Tony Award nominee Lynne Taylor-Corbett.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 10/10 for Rhode Island

Beowulf Alley Theatre's Old Time Radio Theatre Company announces their November stories to be presented at the theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue (Downtown between Broadway and Congress) on November 2 and 16, 2010. Performances are at 7:00 p.m. Admission is $8 for ages 13 to adult and $5 for the first two children ages 6-12, cash at the door, first come-first serve seating. The box office phone number is (520) 882-0555.

CABARET POE, a musical based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, returns to the Irvington Lodge in Indianapolis for a five-week engagement beginning October 1st.

In response to audience requests, First Folio is remounting its world premiere show, The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story.

Nachdem Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft und ihre verschrobenen Kollegen in der letzten Spielzeit am Pfauen nächtelang ihr Unwesen trieben, hat Werner Morlang die Pforte zur Nachtmahr-Abtei vorläufig geschlossen. Aber die Reise in die Finsternis der menschlichen Seele geht weiter! Von nebelumflorten Hochmooren und halbzerfallenen Schlössern wechseln wir in die Strassen der Grossstadt. Wo uns in der vergangenen Spielzeit das Übernatürliche das Blut in den Adern gefrieren liess, sind es in der neuen SÉRIE NOIRE die sehr menschlichen Abgründe der Kriminalliteratur, in die Werner Morlang das Publikum entführen wird.

In response to audience requests, First Folio is remounting its world premiere show, The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story. Adapted for the stage by David Rice and directed by Michael Goldberg, Madness... brings Poe's macabre and melancholic tales & poems to life as audience members move from room to room. Poe and his beloved wife Virginia guide the audience through historic Mayslake Hall, taking their guests from the garrets to the dungeons and deep into the madness of Edgar Allan Poe. Tickets are available online at www.firstfolio.org or by calling the box office at 630-986-8067.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 10/03 for Rhode Island

Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. -Edgar Allan Poe, The Conqueror Worm

Nachdem Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft und ihre verschrobenen Kollegen in der letzten Spielzeit am Pfauen nächtelang ihr Unwesen trieben, hat Werner Morlang die Pforte zur Nachtmahr-Abtei vorläufig geschlossen. Aber die Reise in die Finsternis der menschlichen Seele geht weiter! Von nebelumflorten Hochmooren und halbzerfallenen Schlössern wechseln wir in die Strassen der Grossstadt. Wo uns in der vergangenen Spielzeit das Übernatürliche das Blut in den Adern gefrieren liess, sind es in der neuen SÉRIE NOIRE die sehr menschlichen Abgründe der Kriminalliteratur, in die Werner Morlang das Publikum entführen wird.

Based on the legendary short story by Edgar Allan Poe, two friends reconnect after many years of separation. Things of mystery and intrigue start to happen as it intertwines three lives attempting to drive everyone into madness.

What might the master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe, write if he were alive today? This is the question American Lyric Theater asked of three composers and three librettists to create The Poe Project!

In response to audience requests, First Folio is remounting its world premiere show, The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story. Adapted for the stage by David Rice and directed by Michael Goldberg, Madness... brings Poe's macabre and melancholic tales & poems to life as audience members move from room to room. Poe and his beloved wife Virginia guide the audience through historic Mayslake Hall, taking their guests from the garrets to the dungeons and deep into the madness of Edgar Allan Poe. Tickets are available online at www.firstfolio.org or by calling the box office at 630-986-8067.

It's by pure accident that Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe by Canada's Catalyst Theatre touched a huge nerve with teens, according to Jonathan Christenson, Catalyst's artistic director and the show's creator.