Tony Tsendeas will reprise his wonderful performance as Poe in THE POE SHOW at Germano's Cabaret in Baltimore on January 23rd, 2015. Call for reservations as seating is limited and at a premium in this intimate setting. Dinner is at 6pm, the performance of "the Poe Show" begins at 7:30.
Only Poe Forevermore takes you to celebrate Poe’s Birthday in Australia, Baltimore and at his birthplace, Boston! With music, special guests and dramatic programming, listen to our 2015 Birthday Show! It’s free and you’re invited!
Celebrating the Anniversary of Edgar a Poe’s 206th Birthday! Here is our comprehensive list of all major Poe-related events, museums and places for Poe’s birthday month, January, 2015. Here's what’s happening and where in Poe cities in the US for January, 2015. Check out what's happening in Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and around the country!
By Katherine Jihyun Kim, Ph.D.
How a graduate student turned an indifferent, cold-shouldered town around to embrace one of its most famous sons, and snowballed a small 2009 bicentennial tribute into 2014's spectacular Poe public art statue, "Poe Returning to Boston". It's been a ride, Eddy, but welcome home!
I need your help.
We have set up a temporary fund drive to raise the out-of-pocket expenses as a result of the fire we had at our studios in Baltimore, on Sunday, NOVEMBER 17, 2014.
I'm asking that you give what you can -- $25, $50, $100 or whatever you can help with. We need the money to take care of things like the dumpster/trash removal, temporary space rental until the building is repaired, and to help cover all the other unforeseen cash details that will crop up, before the insurance can help.
Any amount that you give will be greatly appreciated. I will send you an email to thank you. For donations over $25 I'll send you a copy of my magazine “Monsterpalooza” that actually survived the fire! (It might smell a little smoky, but I want to say “thank you” in some way for your help.)
Here is our comprehensive list of all major Poe-related events, museums and places for the holiday season, December 18, 2014 to January 1, 2015! REMEMBER to always check with the event or venue to make sure they are open or have changed to holiday hours! Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from everyone at Poe Forevermore!
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"Mark Twain: How To Tell a Story" is performed by Mark Redfield. It is comprised of four delightful essays penned by the great American humorist and storyteller, Mark Twain.
Recorded before a live audience in 1999 at The Roland Park Women's Club in Baltimore, Maryland.
Richard Corben has had a long and varied career as an artist and illustrator, having done stellar work for most major comics publishers, but being known primarily in weird fiction reading circles for illustrating and adapting stories for some of the most popular black and white comic magazines, Vampirella, Creepy and Eerie, Warren publications popular primarily in the 1970s. His work for Heavy Metal Magazine has garnered him legions of fans. Richard Corben is a 2012 Eisner Hall of Fame Inductee.
During production week of the Boston premiere of “Nevermore: An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe” in late October, 2014, after a busy day of texting, emailing, phoning and generally doing the never-ending business of opening a play, Jeffrey Combs (the star) and me (the producer), having dealt with dozens of details and questions and answers regarding the production as it loomed closer (Halloween) including a full day of staging the show to “work” in the Somerville Theatre and solving the lighting and sound issues with the technicians, we had a conversation about acting and playing Poe.
THE HOURS OF LIFE is the new musical about Poe that had its world premiere in Seattle at the Cornish Studio Theatre on December 5, 2014. The Theatre 22 production was written by Paul Lewis and directed by Corey D. McDaniel.
The show opens with cast members filling the stage in song, all dressed in beautifully tailored period costumes. The intimate feel of the 100-seat theater was immediately felt with the characters literally standing at your side. After the rousing finale of the first of 17 songs, the ensemble disperses and the play gently unfolds.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
Crash, smash, bang, boom! Suddenly there he was sprawled on the floor less than eight feet away between the left hand side of the stage and me. The well dressed lovely blonde-haired woman who sat in the seat next to me at my left hand was clearly startled with surprise and concern, as was I also, reacted and began to instinctively rise from her seat to assist Edgar Allan Poe who had just taken a dramatic startling sudden drunken fall off the stage onto the floor right in front of us.
By CRAIG WICHMAN
Picture if you will a brisk Christmas Eve of the early 1970’s in the snowy countryside around Defiance, Ohio. A teenage boy and his young sister sneak away from the extended family festivities taking place in the wood-paneled basement, to hunker down on the carpeting in front of a hulking Entertainment Center upstairs. The strains of Bernard Herrmann conducting Tchaikovsky’s Theme from Piano Concerto No.1 (aka Tonight We Love) begin, and soon the two are whisked away to Queen Victoria’s England—and somehow, to Franklin Roosevelt’s America at the same time!
Having read as much as I have in the last 40 years both by and about Edgar Allan Poe, it is rare indeed that I encounter a book about EAP that can truly qualify as original. So imagine my surprise and delight upon reading J.W. Ocker's 'Poe-Land' to discover that Mr. O has managed to pull that most impressive rabbit called "Originality" out of his magician's topper first time up to bat...
With two plays performing on opposite ends of the country in October of 2014, the director of “Nevermore: An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe” (East Coast) and “Re-Animator: The Musical” (West coast) talked with Mark Redfield (who was asked by Jeffrey Combs to come aboard and serve as Associate Producer to help launch “Nevermore” in Boston) about the making-of both plays. And very different plays, they are, too.
Edgar Allan Poe Bronze Bust Photo Released; Unveiling at the Boston Public Library
BOSTON (October 22, 2014) — On Thursday, October 30 at 6pm, the Edgar Allan Poe Bronze Bust Project will unveil the recently completed Poe bust to an audience of literary fans in the Abbey Room McKim Building at the Boston Public Library.
Dennis Paoli writes plays and films. His oeuvre includes adaptations of the works of Poe and Lovecraft. Re-Animator (1985), Dreams of the Witch House (2005), The Black Cat (2007) and Nevermore: An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe, a one-man play starring Jeffrey Combs that has been winning and astonishing audiences around the country since its premiere at The Steve Allen Theatre in Los Angeles in 2009.
I talked with Dennis about his approach to adaptation and screen and play writing, and getting under the skin of the man Edgar Allan Poe, in early October, 2014.
Mark Redfield’s 2006 film THE DEATH OF POE, which chronicles the last days of Edgar Allan Poe in a dream-like and expressionistic cinematic style, is now available on Vimeo Video-On-Demand.
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VAMPIRE HUNTERS INCORPORATED BOOK ONE:
THE CULT OF THE NOSFERATU
Coming Soon!
ALONE:THE LIFE OF POE
10-CD Set Coming in 2015!
