NEVERMORE – THE IMAGINARY LIFE AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

ACCLAIMED MUSICAL PLAY TO OPEN NEXT SUMMER AT CHARING CROSS THEATRE

MONDAY 19 JULY – SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER 2027

One rainy night in Richmond, Virginia, Poe boards a steamship bound for New York. He will never reach his destination. Instead, the journey takes him deep into memory and imagination, through a life marked by ambition, love, loss and grief, towards the discovery that, of all the twisted tales he ever told, his darkest story was his own.

Producers M. Kilburg Reedy for MKR Entertainment Group Ltd, Martin Hummel, Rose Caiola for Caiola Productions, and Catalyst Theatre of Canada are delighted to announce that Catalyst's acclaimed musical play Nevermore – The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe will play at Charing Cross Theatre from Monday 19 July to Saturday 9 October 2027.

Written, composed and directed by Jonathan Christenson, Artistic Director of Catalyst Theatre, and designed by Bretta Gerecke, Nevermore delves into the extraordinary life and imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. The show weaves together biography, fantasy, music and echoes of Poe’s own work to explore the man behind some of literature’s darkest and most enduring stories such as The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher and The Pit and the Pendulum.

Originally created by Catalyst Theatre of Edmonton, Canada, Nevermore has been presented all over Canada and internationally, including in the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) at the Barbican and Off-Broadway at New York’s New World Stages in 2015, where it received three Lucille Lortel Award nominations, including Outstanding Musical.

M. Kilburg Reedy said, “I first produced Nevermore Off-Broadway in 2015, so it’s wonderful to be returning to the piece and bringing it to Charing Cross Theatre. Nevermore has been called “haunting” and it’s fair to say that I have been “haunted” by Jonathan’s singular creation – a musical play that is visually stunning, deeply theatrical and full of wit and darkness, the layers of which have only deepened through his continued work over the years. I’m very excited for London audiences to see this best-ever version of the show in 2027 and, as a co-producer of Come From Away, I’m especially proud to be bringing another extraordinary Canadian musical to the London stage.”

Tickets are on sale now, via nevermoreshow.com.