Acclaimed musical play NEVERMORE to play at Charing Cross Theatre
It has been announced that Catalyst Theatre of Canada's acclaimed musical play Nevermore – The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe will play at Charing Cross Theatre from 19 July - 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.
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.
Producer 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.”
The production includes design by Bretta Gerecke, choreography by Laura Krewski, sound effects design by Wade Staples, sound by Andrew Johnson, London casting by Neil Rutherford, and orchestrations by Jonathan Christenson with Matthew Skopyk.
Casting for the London production will take place in spring 2027 and will be announced in due course.
