Edgar Allan Poe in Popular Culture - Theatre

Theatre

• The Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a play by playwright P. Shane Mitchell
• In early 2007, NYC composer Phill Greenland and book writer/actor Ethan Angelica announced a new Poe stage musical titled Edgar, which uses only Poe's prose and letters as text, and Poe's poems as lyrics.
• Actor John Astin, who performed as Gomez in The Addams Family television series, is an ardent admirer of Poe, whom he resembles, and in recent years has starred in a one-man play based on Poe's life and works, Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight.
• In the mid 1990s, The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival in association with Nationsbank, presented Edgar - The Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Jack Yuken at five south Florida venues. Kevin Crawford was Poe. R.A. Smith and Heidi Harris co-starred. Kermit Christman directed.
• Fall of the House, a play by Robert Ford, premiered April 9, 2010 at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. The play features vignettes from the last week of Poe's life and from the last days of his mother's life, both of which intersect with a modern day plotline.
• The 2008 Japanese/Australian Rock Musical Once Upon a Midnight takes its title from the beginning of the Raven.
• In 2005, a reading of the Broadway-bound musical Poe was announced, with a book by David Kogeas and music and lyrics by David Lenchus, featuring Deven May as Edgar Allan Poe. Plans for a full production have not been announced.
• Another Poe impersonator is Baltimore-native David Keltz, notable for often starring in the annual Poe birthday celebration at Westminster Hall and Burying Ground every January.