Given the choice of presenting an evening of Edgar Allan Poe’s better known stories and poetry (“The Tell-Tale Heart,” “Annabel Lee,” “The Raven”) and writing a play about the tormented alcoholic author and his obsessive pre- and post-mortem love for his first cousin/child bride Virginia, David Rice did both, weaving together dramatic readings of Poe’s […]
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The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story finds the broken heart in the horror
Oak Park Festival Theatre’s production promenades through the Cheney Mansion.
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The power of Walt Whitman brings two high school students together in I & You
They sound their barbaric yawp through the living room.