The Evening Crane Theatre

12/31/2025

OPEN CALL for Lighting Designer, Costume Designer, and Set Designer ~~ in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill NC area. For a cycle of plays we are producing in 2026.
Please send us your resume, & any samples of past work: [email protected]
For an idea of the kind of work we do, see our website: https://www.eveningcrane.com/

12/27/2025

We are looking to hire a freelance artist/illustrator to create a series of posters for a cycle of stage plays we are producing next year.

Style / Influences -- the illustrations and paintings of Gustave Dore, Harry Clarke, John Austen, Aubrey Beardsley, Kay Nielsen, Gustave Moreau, the MacDonald sisters, late 19th Symbolist art broadly.

If your work takes after any of these artists, please send us your portfolio: [email protected]

Thank you!

10/12/2025

"The Night All Riddles Are Solved."
Coming soon.

"My son, if you are reading this, it means you never dug up the canister buried beneath the Archers' willow, and it has been ten years, seven months, twenty-seven days since my funeral..." ​​ -...

08/01/2025

Casting one supporting role for an independent drama that shoots this Tuesday Aug 5th in the Charlotte NC area. Male, age 55-75. Character type: gruff, serious, down to earth, a farmer out in miles of fields. Non-union, paid, one shoot day. Memorization required. Send us a resume & headshot: [email protected]

07/24/2025

Sound mixer/recordist & gaffer wanted for NC independent film shoot. Dates: Aug 5th-6th in the Charlotte area and 7th-9th in the Kinston NC area. Send us your resume & daily rate.
[email protected]

06/12/2025

Gallery of ghosts from our performance of 'The Spyglass Seven', a tale of Edgar Allan Poe, this past week at The Poe Museum in Richmond VA.
https://www.eveningcrane.com/thespyglassseven.html

Photos by Ashlin Lawler.

06/09/2025

Magic at The Poe Museum this past Friday eve, as we performed "The Spyglass Seven" to a sold-out crowd in the museum's Enchanted Garden, before the shrine & bust of Edgar Allan Poe. Pics from the performance at the link below:

https://www.eveningcrane.com/thespyglassseven.html

~ ​An Evening Crane Theatre production

05/28/2025

A warm June night. An enchanted courtyard garden. The ghosts of several 19th century poets & an ambience of dark romance ~

Next Friday, June 6th, the ghosts of Edgar Allan Poe & his contemporaries will appear at The Poe Museum in Richmond VA, for an evening production of "The Spyglass Seven." One night only. Have you reserved your seats? (Link below).

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https://evergreen.humanitru.com/web/campaigns/edgar-allan-poe-museum~evening-crane-theatre-presents-the-spyglass-seven?tab_6127=

Join us on Friday, June 6 at 7:00 PM for a special performance of the original play The Spyglass Seven, presented by Evening Crane Theatre.

05/22/2025

Two weeks until the premiere of 'THE SPYGLASS SEVEN' at The Poe Museum in Richmond VA on June 6th.

Join us for an evening of poetry, ghosts, and 19th century romance, in the Museum's enchanted garden.

Tickets on sale now at the link below. (Admission is free with Museum membership).

https://poemuseum.org/event/evening-crane-theatre-presents-the-spyglass-seven/

04/12/2025

Friends of Evening Crane ~

"THE SPYGLASS SEVEN," a play on the life and loves of Edgar Allan Poe, will receive its Richmond premiere this June at The Poe Museum. Read more about the premiere and get your tickets to the performance through the Museum's website, at the link below. Admission is free with Museum membership.

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https://poemuseum.org/event/evening-crane-theatre-presents-the-spyglass-seven/

12/20/2024

To mark the last two weeks of the year, a few short films from the vault...
"CAPRICS" #1- #3 below ~

"Caprice," noun ~1) "quick, unanticipated change"2) "an occurrence of possibly indecipherable cause"3) "a quality of either deep lightheartedness or light fo...