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.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
2019
KEEP WATCHING FOR UPCOMING EVENTS!
Latest Projects
ALONE The Life Of Poe
THE STORY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
Now available!
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Mark Redfield
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LATEST NEWS
- OVER 200 SPEAKING ROLES!
- ORIGINAL AND PERIOD MUSIC!
- THE COMPLETE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN MASTER!
- TEN HOURS OF AUDIO DRAMA!
DENNIS PAOLI: THE POE FOREVERMORE INTERVIEW
Posted 9/17/19
PULPFEST 2019!
Posted 8/13/19
Dates: August 15-18, 2019
Location: Doubletree by Hilton Hotels, Pittsburgh, Cranberry, PA
Artist/Voice Actor Mark Redfield and Composer/Sound Designer Jennifer Rouse will be attending PulpFest with CDs of Redfield Arts Audio’s newest release - - “Songs of Giants: The Poetry of Pulp”. An anthology of poems by pulp writers H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. Howard. PulpFest 2019 will begin on Thursday, Aug. 15, and run through Sunday, Aug. 18. It will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry.
In addition to having “Songs of Giants” CDs available, Redfield will have new artwork for sale, and some other CDs and books that he’s authored. Artist and illustrator Mark Wheatley will have his book “Songs of Giants” available. The perfect opportunity to get signed versions of both the book and CD!
For a full line-up of guest and events at PulpFest 2019, please visit:
http://www.pulpfest.com/
If you can’t attend PulpFest, but want to order the “Songs of Giants” CD, please visit
http://redfieldartsaudio.com/audio-songs-of-giants.html
ALONE The Life Of Poe Starring Jeffrey Combs as Edgar Allan Poe
Posted 7/4/19
Production has begun on our epic audio drama “ALONE The Life of Poe”!
Recording began in late June, 2019, and will continue, on-and-off in recording studios around the country, until November 2019!
“ALONE The Life of Poe” will be released May 2020 in digital and physical CD formats. Physical media I’d not dead at Redfield Arts Audio!
FUNDRAISING IS ON-GOING!
You can pre-order the 10 CD Box Set of “ALONE The Life of Poe”
for only $45 (plus shipping & handling) and get the Soundtrack Music Album FREE by clicking HERE and using your credit or debit card to Pre-Order.
Or, you can download our Pre-Order form and send a check or money order (in US funds) to Redfield Arts Audio, P.O. Box 19428 Baltimore, Maryland 21206.
DOWNLOAD PRE-ORDER FORM PDF
Redfield Arts Audio is thrilled to announce that our epic audiobiography of Edgar Allan Poe, featuring a full cast , music, and sound effects is now in production!
Starring JEFFREY COMBS as the voice of Edgar Allan Poe. Also featuring LANA WOOD, MACKENZIE MENTER, CAROLINE MUNRO, VERONICA CARLSON, BRINKE STEVENS, DEBBIE ROCHON. and others!, Written and produced by Mark Redfield, ALONE The Life of Poe is an epic audio drama chronicling the extraordinary life and times of Edgar Allan Poe.
Presented over a story arc of 20 half-hour Chapters, with a running time of over 10 hours ALONE The Life of Poe will feature the finest actors assemble to voice over 200 roles. Original Music is Composed by Jennifer Rouse, with period music woven through-out the production.
FIND OUT MORE AND PRE-ORDER!
EDGAR ALLAN POE'S IRISH HERITAGE
Posted 3/12/19
As the world celebrates Saint Patrick’s Day—from Brazil to Baltimore, from Trafalgar Square to Boston Common—the day that originally was a Catholic Feast Day, but has now come to include the celebrations around the globe of all things Irish by the Irish Diaspora (and millions of “Irish-For-A-Day” folks!), we thought it a perfect time to celebrate Edgar Poe’s Irish heritage.
THE POE FAMILY COMES FROM IRELAND It begins, as far back as can be reliably traced, to Edgar’s great-great-grandfather David Poe in the town of Dring, County Cavan, Ireland, about 75 miles north of Dublin. (There are going to be a few “Davids” in our brief re-cap, so get your score cards ready!)
JEFFREY COMBS will voice POE in "ALONE The Life Of Poe"!
Posted 1/22/19
We are thrilled to announce that actor Jeffrey Combs will be the voice of "Edgar Allan Poe" in ALONE The Life Of Poe!
Best known for his role as "Herbert West" in the Stuart Gordon film "Reanimator", as well as his characters in Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Voyager, Jeffrey has previously played Edgar Allan Poe in the Masters Of Horror Series "The Black Cat" episode, as well as his one man show, produced by Stuart Gordon, "Nevermore".
We are honored to have such a great talent to bring Poe to life and we welcome Jeffrey Combs to the cast!
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! ALONE THE LIFE OF POE
Posted 1/19/19
Poe Forevermore and Redfield Arts Audio are thrilled to announce that our epic Audio Biography of Edgar Allan Poe, featuring a full cast , music, and sound effects will go into full production in 2019!
Over the coming weeks, we will begin announcing the stellar cast for ALONE The Life of Poe — The voices that will bring the world and life of the great writer, poet and critic to life!
MARK REDFIELD PERFORMS DICKENS’ “A CHRISTMAS CAROL”
Posted 12/12/18
This holiday season you can listen to Mark Redfield’s fantastic reading of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic “A Christmas Carol” on The Redfield Arts Revue- - for free!
If you’d prefer to listen to the whole recording at once with your family and loved ones, or while in the car, or where ever you like best to listen to audio books, you can down load “A Christmas Carol” from:
CDBaby
iTunes
Amazon
THE STORY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE Audiobook Now Available!
Posted 10/11/18
Written By Sherwin Cody. Adapted and Narrated by Mark Redfield.
AVAILABLE NOW FOR ONLY $4.99 ON CDBABY AT:
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/markredfield1
MORE INFO AND TRACK LIST...
'POE'S HAUNTED HOUSE OF USHER' ON CD!
Posted 9/30/18
CD ONLY $9.95
NO INTERNATIONAL ORDERS AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU!
Dare You Tour Usher’s House of Mystery and Imagination?!
A new “haunted house” record, just like we loved when we were growing up, but this one is special!
This one, Edgar Allan Poe’s Haunted House of Usher takes us on a diabolical journey through the dark creative mind of Poe as we experience some of his most chilling tales! Roderick Usher’s house is alive! And dying! Are these actual events you witness, or are they Usher’s madness come to life?! Come and visit the Haunted House of Usher, and experience what lurks inside!
CD - $9.95
($4.95 Shipping in the continental U.S.)
MORE DETAILS AND TRACK LIST OF THIS PRODUCT...
THE RAVEN, ALIVE AND STILL SITTING ON THE BUST OF PALLAS
Posted 1/29/18
THE RAVEN, FOREVERMORE
Edgar Allan Poe’s infamous poem “The Raven” was published on 29 January, 1843.
There is, perhaps, no other single piece of writing in Poe’s life and work that helped to catapult him to fame, to make him a “rock star”,than that one poem.
The narrative poem was first published in the New York Evening Mirror. It was immediately pirated and printed in dozens of other newspapers and periodicals across the country. Soon, everybody knew Poe, “nevermore” and the raven, but it didn’t improve Poe’s bank account a penny.
A NEW RECORDING, SPOKEN, AND WITH ORIGINAL MUSIC BY JENNIFER ROUSE
We are are proud to debut this new recording by actor and composer Jennifer Rouse. The female voice adds a new, wonderful dimension to this ever-living poem. Rouse’s performances strong and lyrical, and her music is a fine underscore to Poe words.
Download it in it's entirety at: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/jenniferrouse12
Mark Redfield at Baltimore Comic-Con September 22-24, 2017
Posted 9/18/17
Actor-Author-Artist Mark Redfield will be at the Baltimore Comic Con at BOOTH #118, September 22-24, 2017. Redfield will have new cartoons and recent publications for sale! His appearance is courtesy artist Mark Wheatley and Insight Studios.
Mark Redfield at The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention September 14-16, 2017
Posted 9/13/17
Mark Redfield will be at The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention September 14-16, 2017.
The actor-author-artist will have new work and new cartoons for sale. The three day convention celebrates pop culture with a retro vibe, from Old Time Radio to popular, beloved celebrities from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Here is the current guest list for the September, 2017 show: http://mgram1.wixsite.com/nostalgia-convention/celebrities
'SINBAD AND THE PIRATE PRINCESS' Nominated For A Rondo Award as Best CD!
Posted 3/4/17
“I’m so excited for the Rondo nomination! I do hope you'll support us, for all who worked so hard on it. Thanks to everyone who enjoyed listening to our audio play. Hope you liked it as much as we all did recording it. We had such fun and look forward to doing more and well done to Mark Redfield whose baby it was, and for his great directing and his dashing acting skills in bringing “Sinbad” to life!”
~ Caroline Munro
March, 2017
We appreciate your vote for “Best CD” at the Rondo Awards! To vote for “Sinbad and the Pirate Princess”, and all of the other categories in the 15th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards, please visit
www.rondoaward.com
POE FOR PRESIDENT!
GET YOUR CAMPAIGN GEAR NOW!
Posted 10/8/16
POE FOR PRESIDENT!
Get Your Campaign Gear Now!
There's no debate about it! There is only ONE candidate that will MAKE AMERICA READ AGAIN!
Order your campaign gear now, and let the whole world that YOU’RE WITH POE!
The only thing better than POE FOR PRESIDENT! Would be BILL SHAKESPEARE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT!
Hmmmmm…POE-SHAKESPEARE ’16! That's the ticket!
Check out and order from a great selection of Poe For President campaign gear HERE !
POE FOREVERMORE PRESENTS
Posted 10/8/16
Book mark this website and join us weekly as PoeForevermore Presents brings you the best audio plays, essays, poetry and spoken word performance anywhere on the planet!
Put on your head phones and listen as we present great audio drama and programming! We begin in October, 2016 with John Astin (“The Addams Family”) and PoeForevermore’s Mark Redfield starring in Tony Tsendeas’ great adaptation of Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”! Keep Calm and Keep Listening!
OCTOBER 7 - IN MEMORIAM TO EDGAR ALLAN POE
Posted 10/7/16
A short memorial tribute video by Mark Redfield and Eric Supensky.
NOW AVAILABLE! ‘SINBAD AND THE PIRATE PRINCESS’ CD
Starring CAROLINE MUNRO and MARTINE BESWICKE!!
Posted 8/13/16
Order your CD of the new audio adventure “Sinbad and the Pirate Princess” now! The 75 minute audio play, featuring a complete voice cast, sound effects and music stars Caroline Munro and Martine Beswicke!
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY AMERICA!
VOTE POE FOR PRESIDENT!
Posted 7/4/16
BACK YOUR CANDIDATE, POE! MAKE AMERICA READ AGAIN!
Help get the message out to MAKE AMERICA READ AGAIN! Buy a t-shirt, hat, bag or mug and let America know where you stand!
BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS!
POE FOR PRESIDENT !
The Great American Writer Announces Bid For Presidency
Posted 6/23/16
BACK YOUR CANDIDATE, POE! MAKE AMERICA READ AGAIN!
Help get the message out to MAKE AMERICA READ AGAIN! Buy a t-shirt, hat, bag or mug and let America know where you stand!
NEW BOOK TRAILER FOR 'CULT OF THE NOSFERATU'!
Posted 1/23/16
"'CULT OF THE NOSFERATU' NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON
First Novel In Series By Mark Redfield And Stuart Voytilla On Sale Now!
The first novel in the Vampire Hunters Incorporated series, CULT OF THE NOSFERATU, by Mark Redfield and Stuart Voytilla, debuts today and his on sale as an e-book at Amazon!
Buy CULT OF THE NOSFERATU on Amazon HERE for only $4.99 !
Don't have a Kindle? No problem! Download the free Kindle App and you can read the first Bertram Welles adventure on any device! Get your free Kindle App HERE !
CULT OF THE NOSFERATU
Exciting horror/adventure pulp fiction awaits you!
HAPPY 207TH BIRTHDAY EDGAR ALLAN POE!
Posted 1/19/16
Today's the day! Happy Birthday Edgar A. Poe! Born 19 January, 1809.
Today we pay special tribute to Edgar Poe, who has brought thrills, tears and inspiration to millions around the world with his poetry, tales and writing.
MARK REDFIELD’S ‘KRAMPUS’ MAKES KRAMPUS RUN IN HOLIDAY ART SHOW
Posted 12/5/15
“KRAMPUS” by Mark Redfield is part of a fun gallery show at Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin, Il.
WHAT, WHERE, WHEN...
KRAMPUSLAUF
SIDE STREET STUDIO ARTS
15 Ziegler Street
Elgin, Illinois, 60120
Tel: 847-429-2276
Email: sidestreetstudioarts@gmail.com
KRAMPUS Art Exhibit: 4 December, 2015 to Christmas 2015
DANIEL GRIFFITH: THE POE FOREVERMORE INTERVIEW
Posted 11/10/15
THE DANIEL GRIFFITH INTERVIEW
A New Documentary on Empire Pictures is Coming!
By PoeForevermore Staff
POE RADIO: THE GREAT STORYTELLERS: BRAM STOKER. LISTEN FREE!
Posted 11/7/15
PoeForevermore Radio Theater presents
The Great Storytellers: Bram Stoker
With commentary by David J. Skal, and Ted Newsom.
Hosted by Mark Redfield.
Featuring the voices of Brinke Stevens, Mary Anne Perry and JR Lyston.
REMEMBERING ROBERT QUARRY
Posted 11/3/15
Photo: ROBERT QUARRY "THE RETURN OF COUNT YORGA" (1971)
I'm remembering my friend, actor Robert Quarry, on the anniversary of his birth, 3 November, 1925.
Bob was a strong actor, an exceptionally intelligent man, a brilliant storyteller, and a loving, true friend. He is best remembered by film fans as portraying “Count Yorga, Vampire” in a pair of low-budget shockers produced in the early 1970s.
POE RADIO: SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY - LISTEN FREE!
Posted 10/14/15
Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Some Words With a Mummy" was published in April, 1845 in American Review: A Whig Journal. The satirical story skewers the then craze for all things Egyptian and mummies and also satirizes the thought that contemporary civilization had reached the pinnacle of both scientific thought and artistic accomplishment in things like architecture.
JAMES BOND RADIO INTERVIEWS CAROLINE MUNRO AND MARTINE BESWICKE
Posted 9/17/15
LONDON
11 September 2015
New Interviews with Caroline Munro and Martine Beswicke!
Listen to two new interviews with two legendary Bond Girls on the James Bond Radio podcast, posted 11 September, 2015.
HEAR JOHN ASTIN AND MARK REDFIELD IN POE'S 'THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO'
Posted 9/10/15
The podcast Moebanshee' Music Box on Dream Stream Radio is kicking off their 2015-2016 season with a special treat! They are broadcasting the PoeForevermore Radio Theater production of THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO starring John Astin and Mark Redfield in ten-minute segments over the next four weeks!
BOOK REVIEW: WHO WAS EDGAR ALLAN POE? By Jim Gigliotti
Posted 9/5/15
Review By Levi L. Leland
American writer and editor Rufus Griswold wrote a not-so-nice obituary in the New York Tribune. He had never forgotten about a negative review Edgar gave one of his books several years earlier. “Edgar Allan Poe is dead,” the obituary began. “He died in Baltimore the day before yesterday. This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it.” Among other things, Griswold insisted that Edgar had few or no friends, and that he was an angry person who was jealous of other people’s success.
MEET POEFOREVERMORE RADIO THEATER STARS CAROLINE MUNRO AND MARTINE BESWICKE!
Posted 8/9/15
Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Maryland this September features Bond Girls, Hammer Horror stars and a Bionic Six Million Dollar Man reunion!
September 17-19, 2015 at the Hunt Valley Wyndom Hotel in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
THE BLACK CAT
Performed by Caroline Munro and Mark Redfield. Listen Free!
Posted 7/8/15
NOW AVAILABLE FREE ON SOUNDCLOUD!
Caroline Munro and Mark Redfield star in the Poe Forevermore Radio Theater production of THE BLACK CAT, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Recording Engineer/Technical Director is Bill Dickson of Drat Productions..
NEW! “THE BLACK CAT” STARRING CAROLINE MUNRO! HAMMER GIRLS CD! AND POE FOREVERMORE RADIO THEATER NEWS!
Posted 7/8/15
Written and directed by Mark Redfield, THE BLACK CAT is set in swinging 60s London! Said Redfield about his choice to set it in that time period, “..it was just a collision of a couple of happy occurrences, really. I knew that I would be working with Caroline Munro. We had been trying to get a project off the ground for years. And “The Black Cat” was coming up next for production, and, well, Caroline shares Rita’s background, as Caroline started as a model.”
ARTICLE: SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE LOST FILM
Posted 6/22/15
By Glenn Andreiev
When we think of famous characters from fiction, we think of the performer who first put a face to that character. Boris Karloff put a face to the Frankenstein Monster, Judy Garland put a face to Dorothy from Kansas, and William Gillette put a face to Sherlock Holmes.
REDFIELD'S POE CARTOONS MAKE GREAT GIFTS YEAR ROUND!
Posted 6/16/15
Tired of giving another gift card? Dinner at the diner just not enough? Give your adventurous friends and family something unusual--an original cartoon painted by Mark Redfield!
WORLD DRACULA DAY
Posted 5/26/15
Bram Stoker's immortal and influential novel was published on this day, 26 May, 1897. Since its publication, the novel has inspired thousands of artists to create films, music, fiction, theater, and art about its title character, Dracula, and it's themes and ideas.
THE CURSE OF BLACK AGGIE
Performed by Mark Redfield. Listen Free!
Posted 5/12/15
NOW AVAILABLE FREE ON SOUNDCLOUD!
Performed by Mark Redfield
Recording Engineer/Technical Director is Bill Dickson of Drat Productions..
"GAS" (by Alfred Hitchcock)
Performed by Mark Redfield. Listen Free!
Posted 4/22/15
NOW AVAILABLE FREE ON SOUNDCLOUD!
Performed by Mark Redfield
Recording Engineer/Technical Director is Bill Dickson of Drat Productions..
THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF (by O. Henry)
Performed by Mark Redfield. Listen Free!
Posted 4/21/15
NOW AVAILABLE FREE ON SOUNDCLOUD!
Performed by Mark Redfield
Recording Engineer/Technical Director is Bill Dickson of Drat Productions..
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
Performed by Mark Redfield and Chris Pfingsten Listen Free!
Posted 4/10/15
NOW AVAILABLE FREE ON SOUNDCLOUD!
Recorded before a live audience at the Baltimore Theatre Project, THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO stars Mark Redfield as Montresor and Chris Pfingsten as Fortunato. The play was adapted from Poe's short story and directed by Tony Tsendeas.
VOTE NOW FOR POE FOREVERMORE RADIO THEATER!
Posted 4/9/15
The Rondo Awards are happening now and voting ends midnight, Sunday, April 19th, 2015!
Please take a few moments and VOTE NOW for Poe Forevermore Radio Theater in the 13th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards! Vote for Poe Forevermore Radio Theater in category # 23 BEST MULTIMEDIA! Thank you!
Voting ballot is HERE: www.rondoaward.com
'FANTOMAS' COMING SOON FROM POE FOREVERMORE RADIO THEATER
Posted 3/22/15
The great French crime thriller FANTOMAS is being adapted as a thrilling audio play for Poe Forevermore Radio Theater.
UPDATE: REDFIELD STUDIO FIRE FUND—WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Posted 2/25/145
UPDATE: 2/25/15
Well, things are moving from a crawl to a not-so-slow-crawl! The landlord is moving forward with repairs to the roof (that will really happen in March) as we keep dodging snow, like the rest of the country.
We're leaving the Fire Fund up for a few more weeks in March, as we must budget for another dumpster rental and another three months of off-site storage/space rental.
Thanks to all who have helped! If you can buy one of my cartoons or throw something in the tip jar or can contribute to the Fire Fund links provided, I can't thank you enough!
-Mark
2/25/2015
HELP BY BUYING AN ORIGINAL REDFIELD CARTOON!
All sales for the time being are going to help with the cost of off-site storage for the studio until the repairs are completed. Here is Redfield's Etsy gallery with new paintings and Poe cartoons for sale: www.etsy.com/shop/markredfield
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.)
POE CONFERENCE NEW YORK FEBRUARY 2015
Posted 2/12/15
February 26 to March 1, 2015 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The Fourth Annual International Edgar Allan Poe Studies Association (PSA) will be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. An international organization with about 250 members, hosted by the English Department of the Pennsylvania State University, previous conferences about Edgar Allan Poe conducted by the group have been held in Richmond, Virginia in 1999, Baltimore, Maryland in 2002 and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2009.
HARRY MANFREDINI TO SCORE 'VAMPIRE HUNTERS INCORPORATED' SERIES
Posted 2/5/15
Composer Harry Manfredini has come onboard the 'Vampire Hunters Incorporated' audioplay series to compose the show's main theme and create it's score. The first season series of half-hour adventure stories will debut later this year, and are currently in production.
LISTEN TO OUR 2015 EDGAR ALLAN POE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!
Posted 1/19/15
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!
EDGAR ALLAN POE: A BOSTON HOMECOMING
Posted 12/30/14
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!
REDFIELD STUDIO FIRE FUND—WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Posted 11/18/14
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.)
MARK TWAIN: HOW TO TELL A STORY
Performed by Mark Redfield Listen Free!
Posted 12/23/14
NOW AVAILABLE FREE ON SOUNDCLOUD!
"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.
BOOK REVIEW: Richard Corben’s “Morella” and “Murders in the Rue Morgue”/ Dark Horse Comics
Posted 12/21/14
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.
JEFFREY COMBS: THE POE FOREVERMORE INTERVIEW - by Mark Redfield
Posted 12/19/14
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.
THEATER REVIEW: ‘The Hours of Life’ at Seattle’s Theatre 22 - by Lee David
Posted 12/18/14
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.
REVIEW - NEVERMORE: AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE - by Robert J. Rei
Posted 11/28/14
Preternatural Pathos & Loving a Ghost
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.
A SCROOGE FOR ALL SEASONS: Lionel Barrymore's Twenty-Year National Run in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Posted 11/25/14
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!
REVIEW: POE LAND BY J.W. OCKER
REVIEW BY PAUL DAY CLEMENS
Posted 10/24/14
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...
STUART GORDON: THE POE FOREVERMORE INTERVIEW
Posted 10/23/14
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.
BOSTON: POE BRONZE BUST UNVIELING OCTOBER 30TH, 2014 AT THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
Posted 10/22/14
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.
MARK REDFIELD’S FILM ‘THE DEATH OF POE’ NOW ON VIDEO-ON-DEMAND
Posted 9/30/14
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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