Having just reread the story, I can assure you there’s not much there that could viably be staged. To their credit, the adaptors must have understood this. What they’ve created is something more easily staged: a love triangle. William is inexplicably in love with the consumptive Madeline, and inappropriately in love with the beautiful Annabel Lee. Now for the good bits: Madeline murders Annabel, Roderick obsesses, Madeline has a mad scene in a bloody dress, Annabel is trundled out as a Psycho-style corpse.

All That Was Left of Them
Goethe Institut
Remaining Performances:
July 11th @ 1 pm
July 11th @ 5:15 pm
July 12th @ 5 pm
They say: A toy soldier yearns for an impossible love. A girl is punished for her vanity. All That Was Left of Them combines the work of Hans Christian Anderson to praise the importance of fairy [...]

In which your trusty Fringe bloggers disclose sundrie facts — some of which may prove revealing — about their sensibilities. And their sordid pasts. In this installment: Chris Swanson.

Four Rooms Waking
Studio Theatre
Remaining performances:
Thursday, July 24 @ 6:00 PM; Saturday, July 26 @ 9:00 PM; Sunday, July 27 @ 6:00 PM
They say: A one-of-a-kind theatrical experience, Four Rooms Waking captures one gripping day in the lives of four sets of unique characters. By turns haunted and hilarious, they will lead you from Algiers to [...]

Coriolanus at Warehouse Theater Next Door
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, 7/12, 2 pm
Sunday, 7/20, 2 pm
Saturday, 7/26, 7:30 pm
They say: “In the Rude Mechanicals’ Coriolanus – Man of the People by William Shakespeare, the seldom-performed play is reinterpreted (and trimmed) for a modern audience into a sharp satire about politics and politicians. No establishment is left unlampooned, from [...]

Metro: In the State of Mind
The Baldacchino

Remaining Performances:
July 11 @ 9:30 PM
July 12 @ 3:00 PM
July 13 @ 2:00 PM
July 18 @ 7:00 PM
July 19 @ 7:30 PM
July 20 @ 1:00 PM
They say: “poetic non sequiturs …. punctuate illusive conformity …. minimalist … sounds effect … existential expression … on the platform into tangents. Through [...]