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Why (do I perform dramatic recitations of Revelation)?

This is a question that I ask myself everytime I perform Revelation. I ask myself this question everyday for the two to three weeks of rehearsal prior to a performance. I ask myself this question every day of the year (actually Monday through Friday) when I commence to review the…

A What?

On Saturday, May 19th at 6:30 PM, I will present a dramatic recitation of the Book of Revelation that I call, The Man Who Saw Heaven. This will take place at the Brownsville Christian Church. In response to that information, someone may question, A what? To which I would…

The Tell-Tale Heart’s Epigraph

I just discovered that Poe used the fourth stanza of Longfellow’s poem, A Psalm of Life, as an epigraph in the original 1843 publication of The Tell-Tale Heart (the same year Dickens published, A Christmas Carol). It works as an ominous foreshadowing of the role that the sound…

Delgani & Me

On saturday, April 21st at 7:30PM I’ll be performing with the Delgani String Quartet at the Wildish Theater in Springfield Oregon. The program is called, Murder and Madness. Paul Safar has composed an original score for Edgar Allan Poe’s, The Tell-tale Heart. Check their…

New Web Site

To chorus of cheers and thunderous applause, Man of Words Theatre steps out onto a new stage with our new website! Along with a beautiful new design comes many crowd pleasing features like social media links, Instagram feed, occasional blog posts of news and events and postings of up coming…