MYSTERY IN THE HOUSE OF USHER: A POE TALE (Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion): A morbidly fun affair
The spirits of Edgar Allen Poe’s tales come alive in the historical Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion.
Edgar Allan Poe
THE MADNESS OF POE (Mechanical): A spellbinding production for the Halloween season
An original and inventive adaptation of Poe interweaves stories by the Master of the Macabre within the period rooms of Historic Strawberry Mansion.
MASQUE OF POE (Mechanical Theater): A hauntingly powerful evening of storytelling
Mechanical Theater’s Halloween-season offering, MASQUE OF POE, honors its mission of creating theatrical projects designed for Philadelphia’s unique historical settings.
[35] OPERA MACABRE: EDGAR ALLAN POE (Philadelphia Opera Collective): Fringe review
An original chamber opera by the exciting young Philadelphia Opera Collective, OPERA MACABRE—which fittingly opened on Friday the 13th!—captures all the hair-raising suspense and psychological disturbance of Edgar Allan Poe’s…
Literary Legacy: A History of Philadelphia Writers
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.
Theater Picks for the 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe
The Live Arts and Philly Fringe has grown and moved mostly North and West from its Old City nexus, prices have gone up, and the roster of performances seems larger and harder…
