Articles Tagged With: Jay Brock

Blood, Sweat, and Fears at The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre

Reviews October 20, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Are you ready for your one-way ticket to nightmarish places? Ghastly things and ghoulish notions to put you in the mood for the season of the macabre? In their live-stage-performance debut, The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre brings Blood, Sweat, and Fears to the FPX Events stage just east of Poe’s beloved Baltimore. Directed by Jay Brock the conceptualized work formulated by Jennifer Restak and Richard J. Hand with Alex Zavistovich, will have some of Poe’s lesser known works on display for your darkened sense of entertainment.

No Beauty Without Strangeness: An Interview with The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre’s Alex Zavistovich

Interviews October 11, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

“There is no beauty without some strangeness.” ~Edgar Allan Poe

The master of the macabre, our beloved Edgar Allan Poe, here once more in beloved Baltimore. The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre, in its first live-stage performance, has set up shop on the east side of Charm City, if perhaps just a little over the city’s borders into the county, to present Blood, Sweat, and Fears just in time for the pinnacle of spooky season.

Review: It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Annapolis Shakespeare Company

Reviews December 8, 2015 John Nunemaker

This time of year there is one story that always puts me in the holiday spirit and that’s It’s a Wonderful Life. The story of George Bailey giving everything for the people of Bedford Falls only to have everything he has done come crashing around him when Uncle Billy loses the business’s $8,000 while heading to deposit it in the bank— and on Christmas Eve none-the-less! It is because of this moment that George intends to end his life but when Clarence the angel is assigned to help him;