Rappaccini's Daughter & Murder by Poe

Show Description:

Just in time for the Halloween season, WordStage Literary Concerts presents a double bill of mystery, romance and murder adapted from literary masterpieces written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. The program will feature dramatic treatments of Hawthorne’s romantic and tragic short story, “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Christopher P. Nolan and Jeffrey Hatcher’s masterful mélange of many excerpts from the Poe canon in his one-act play, “Murder by Poe”. These chilling tales will be accompanied by poignant and malevolent music by Satie, Grieg and others.