Edgar Allen Poe News

Celebrate the timeless poetry of Walt Whitman with John Kevin Jones' tribute, Whitman in Love - Live Oak, with Moss & Other poems. Jones invites you to a summer garden party.

Puppeteers for Fears, Oregon's only dedicated puppet musical horror troupe, will bring its original show, Cthulhu: the Musical!, on the road to cities throughout the NW for performances on the company's 'Back From the Dead,' 2023 summer tour.

Trinity Repertory Company concludes its 2022-23 Season with the award-winning musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler. Directed by Curt Columbus, Sweeney Todd runs at Trinity Rep in the Dowling Theater from May 25 through June 25, 2023.

Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced the remaining four titles of the 2023/2024 season at The Public, including world premieres, exciting adaptations and stories from Broadway stars.

Playwright incubator PlayGround-Chicago celebrates the best writers and short works from its inaugural season and its first in-person performance at the BEST OF PLAYGROUND-CHICAGO GALA.

Each month Kumu Kahua Theatre co-sponsors this playwriting contest with Bamboo Ridge Press in their combined effort to nurture local playwrights and authors. The monthly Judges are theatre practitioners from the Hawaii theatre community. All plays submitted are read by Kumu Kahua Theatre Artistic Director, Harry Wong III. 

Stillpointe is celebrating our Spooktacular 13th season, and I wanted to reach out and personally invite you to come and enjoy a haunting evening where stories become real as you follow Edgar Allen Poe through his life and loves.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) partners with Cate Cammarata of CreateTheater to present the 2023 TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series, with the generous support of RK Greene and The StoryLine Project on Sundays, February 12 & 19, 2023 at 3pm.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces the 23rd annual series of new plays, now virtual, by TRU writers produced by TRU producers, as part of TRU Voices New Plays Virtual Reading Series on Sundays, February 12 & 19, 2023 at 3pm.

Theater Resources Unlimited will present the 23rd annual series of new plays, now virtual, by TRU writers produced by TRU producers, as part of TRU Voices New Plays Virtual Reading Series on Sundays, February 12 & 19, 2023 at 3pm.

Sparks & Wiry Cries will present a week of sparksLIVE events, from January 10 to 13, 2023 in New York, including the world premiere of Songs in Flight, co-presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, plus additional events at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Three of the master of the macabre, Edgar Allen Poe’s most frightening and grizzly pieces appear on the main stage of The Coterie Theatre through October 30 with TELL-TALE ELECTRIC POE. Adapted and directed by Jeff Church, Producing and Artistic Director of The Coterie, TELL-TALE ELECTRIC POE is suitable for families with children 10 years and older. What did our critic think of TELL-TALE ELECTRIC POE OPENS IN KANSAS CITY AT at The Coterie Theatre?

A modern-but-not-modern twist on the Golden Age of Radio, the show is an over-the-top nod to the style and humor of old broadcasts. Written by Nathan Frizzell and directed by Tom Detrinis, Queer Radio Hour is a unique comedy that premiered in December 2021 with A Queer Radio Hour Christmas.

Just in time for Halloween, St. Dunstan’s Theatre Guild will present an original spooky-comedy Playhouse on Haunted Hill, created by Michigan playwright, Jake Zinke.

Center Repertory Company launches its 2022-23 season with the hit musical play Always…Patsy Cline.

Florida Studio Theatre (FST) presents Smoke & Mirrors, a riveting comedic thriller by Will Osborne and Anthony Herrera.

Proctors is adding new shows to their already dynamic fall programming for 2022. See Misty Blues – Queens of the Blues, and more!

Producer Michael Urie will present the Off-Broadway return of Happy Birthday Doug – the acclaimed comedy written and performed by Drew Droege (the Internet’s “Chloë,” “Drunk History,” “Bob’s Burgers,” RuPaul’s “AJ and the Queen” on Netflix) – in a special Pride weekend engagement starting this week for four shows only, June 23-26 at 7:00 PM.

Rogue Theater Festival is at again! Making waves this year in person at The Players Theatre AND digitally on ShowTix4U, Rogue is ready to present a brand new lineup of shows in their, here to stay, hybrid theater festival. Lasting from June 30th through July 3rd, the festival will include 18 brand new shows to be presented LIVE and in person at The Players Theatre along with 27 brand new shows that can be streamed on demand virtually on ShowTix4U.

“Washington Square”, a romantic chamber opera adaptation of the novel of the same name by Henry James, will have its world premiere in the Hollywood Fringe Festival.