Edgar Allan News

Artistic Director Roy Steinberg announces his plans for the Equity theatre's upcoming 2012 season along with some money-saving changes to the theatre's subscription packages.

The award-winning Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company announces its 2012 Cape May Mainstage Season. It includes classical gems, a world premiere, and a radio show.

Gary Naylor looks back on 124 productions reviewed in 2011.

He's a new dad but an old hand at Broadway ensemble work as well as principal roles on other stages.

Horse Trade Theater Group (Erez Ziv, Managing Director, Heidi Grumelot, Artistic Director) will present the 6th Annual FRIGID New York Festival, an open and uncensored theatre festival that gives artists an opportunity to let their ingenuity thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and artistic determination.

Centaur Theatre is proud to mark the 15th anniversary of its Wildside Theatre Festival with a spectacular line-up that breaches theatrical boundaries and breaks new ground. Performed by both seasoned and emerging talent, the avant-garde works range from slapstick comedy to the surreal. Co-curated by Centaur Artistic and Executive Director, Roy Surette, and writer and performer Johanna Nutter, this exciting edition of the festival includes the winner of Centaur's Best of the Fringe Award, Blink Blink Blink; the North-American, English-language premiere of Bliss; and Bifurcate Me, Wildside's first bilingual production.

The church where Edgar Allan Poe himself once worshipped as a child is the setting for five of his most disturbing works, brought into the 21st century by some of the country's most courageous and visceral writers. Second Skin Theatre presents Poe: Macabre Resurrections, an innovative celebration of the gothic writings of Poe.

Gary Naylor enters the dark world of Poe (Edgar Allan, not the Tellytubby).

Musically Human Theatre Productions (MHTP) has announced our concert staging of 'Nevermore,' a new musical with music by Matt Conner ('The Hollow', 'Partial Eclipse'), book by Grace Barnes and lyrics adapted from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe.

Musically Human Theatre Productions (MHTP) has announced casting for the concert staging of 'Nevermore,' a new musical with music by Matt Conner ('The Hollow', 'Partial Eclipse'), book by Grace Barnes and lyrics adapted from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe.

Tickets are now on sale for The Poe Project, a concert of three new one-act operas inspired by the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, commissioned by American Lyric Theater.

San Rafael's beautiful Falkirk Mansion / Falkirk Cultural Center serves as a haunting backdrop when the award-winning Porchlight Theatre Company players and their colleagues from the Bay Area theatrical community present dramatizations of classic stories of the macabre written by American writers Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and William Faulkner.

Podemos pensar que el terror y el suspense son géneros que están reservados para el cine o la literatura, a pesar de que autores como Agatha Christie, Iran Levin y Jean Ray ya tantearon la posibilidad de crear tensión en el espectador dentro de una sala de teatro. Una muerte en tu destino es una recopilación de cuatro historias terroríficas que juegan a crear en el espectador sensaciones como el miedo, la intriga, el drama y la desesperación. Cuatro historias que mantienen al espectador en una continua tensión que sólo podrá vivirse el próximo lunes 31 de octubre a las 23 horas en el Teatro Arlequín de Madrid.

Unbound Productions Co-Artistic Directors Jonathan Josephson, Paul Millet, and Jeff G. Rack have announced two waves of expansion to their popular horror story adaptation series WICKED LIT. On Thursday, October 20, The American School of Yaoundé in Cameroon, presented Josephson's adaptation of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. In addition, WICKED LIT's free staged reading series will expand from Los Angeles- based events and schools to two locations in San Diego: Lestat's (October 23 and 27 at 6:30pm) and The Egyptian Tea Room (October 26 at 8:00pm).

Readings of Poe's most famous and macabre stories.

Performance artist Reno (Rebel Without a Pause), Tony-nominee Justin Vivian Bond (Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway), and Robert Croonquist (associate producer of 2002 documentary 'The Cockettes') were among the theatergoers at Theatre 80 (80 St. Marks Place) on Friday night where San Francisco's acclaimed Thrillpeddlers performed a concert version of the cult hit VICE PALACE: THE LAST COCKETTES MUSICAL, as part of HOWL! Arts Project 2011.

Straight from San Francisco, The Thrillpeddlers present a concert version of their smash hit revival, VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical on Friday & Saturday, October 21 & 22 as part of the 2011 HOWL! Festival, at Theater 80.

Musically Human Theatre Productions (MHTP) has announced casting for the concert staging of 'Nevermore,' a new musical with music by Matt Conner ('The Hollow', 'Partial Eclipse'), book by Grace Barnes and lyrics adapted from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe.

San Francisco's acclaimed Thrillpeddlers present a concert version of their smash hit revival, VICE PALACE: THE LAST COCKETTES MUSICAL, on Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October 22 at 11:00PM, as part of HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2011 at Theatre 80 (80 St. Marks Place) in Manhattan.

Rep Stage, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), continues its inaugural Salon Series just in time for Halloween, with actor, director and nationally recognized Edgar Allan Poe interpreter Tony Tsendeas in 'The Poe Show.'