Edgar Allan News

This holiday season, Summoners Ensemble Theatre and the Merchant’s House Museum will celebrate the 13th season of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the MERCHANT’S HOUSE. Learn more!

Baltimore’s Theatre Project has announced its 2025–26 season, offering a mix of original works, new interpretations of classics, world premieres, and regional debuts by Resident and Guest Artists. Programming spans theatre, dance, music, opera, puppetry, and multidisciplinary performance.

Modern Opera Company will present the premiere performances of The Tell-Tale Heart, a new opera by Felix Jarrar, on October 24 and 25, 2025, at the Highland Park Ebell Club.

The year is 1849, you're strolling through New York City on a brisk autumn evening and decide to take in a lecture by a rising young author and literary critic named Edgar Allan Poe.

Prime Stage Theatre's fall fundraiser An Evening of Poe Pourri will pay tribute to a most singular guest of honor: best-selling 19th-century crime and horror author Edgar Allan Poe. Learn more!

Star of the Day’s “The Divas!” will present an original concert inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, running for two nights only—Friday, October 17 and Saturday, October 18 at 7:30 PM—at Between the Lines, 725 N. 15th Street in Allentown, PA.

Spoleto Festival USA's bipolar weekend of WHITE BOX and POLAR BEAR & PENGUIN was an admirable pairing for young and old -but not as grippingly theatrical as the world premiere staging of Benjamin Britten's opera, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, retelling the ghostly Henry James novella under the direction of Rodula Gaitanou

Guild Festival Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for The Veil, a new one-man play by Keith Barker and Thomas Morgan Jones, set to premiere at Crow’s Theatre this fall. The production will run from September 17 to October 12, 2025, with previews on September 17 and 18 and an official opening night on September 19.

The Coterie Theatre has announced its 2025/2026 season which will entertain, engage, and become memorable experiences for all ages of the family. The line-up will expand The Coterie's reach beyond its mainstage into the Kansas City community with unique co-productions with multiple KC organizations.

Step into a world of the supernatural, the paranormal, and the delightfully mysterious with DRAMA: AN AURAL EXPERIENCE - Season 1: Anthology, a cinematic audio drama series sonically crafted for headphones and designed to transport listeners through spine-tingling soundscapes and richly layered short-form storytelling.

Prime Stage Theatre will celebrate its 29th season with three world premieres commissioned from three Pittsburgh playwrights. Performances begin in November.

The contemporary opera The Fall of the House of Commons, a futuristic and bold work about the mysterious co-existence of human and artificial intelligence, will be presented at the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre has become known for not only its Mainstage productions that include classic musicals, as well as regional and area premieres of Broadway’s latest titles, but also for its wildly popular interactive murder mystery series.  

Guild Festival Theatre has announced that The Veil by Keith Barker and Thomas Morgan Jones, developed through GFT's In Conversations With Classics Workshop, will premiere at Crow's Theatre as part of their 2025/2026 Season.

A reading of The Case-Book of Auguste Dupin, adapted by John Strysik and based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe, will be presented by Theatre 40 (241 S. Moreno Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212 on Monday, March 31, 2025 at 7 p.m..

Need a great book to spring into the new season? This spring, Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind. From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; theatre books for kids to theatre history; check out our collection of 21 new Broadway books for every theatre lover's Spring 2025 reading list.

What did our critic think of EDGAR ALLAN POE SPEAKEASY at Franklin Theatre?

Star of the Day has revealed its 2025 season, celebrating 10 years on stage! The season will featuring Seussical The Musical and much more. See full programming here. 

Tennessee Shakespeare Company will host its 16th annual Children’s Literacy Gala in May, “American Celebrity Poetry-Slam” where the audience will decide the winners from our participating poets on the competitive runway.

Tickets for the Greek National Opera productions scheduled from April to June 2025 at the Stavros Niarchos Hall and the Alternative Stage at the SNFCC are now available for purchase.