Mairi Babb with Poe Bear and Eric Woolfe with Cutlet from ‘The House at Poe Corner’, Photo by Adrianna Prosser

So, it’s been exactly a decade—to the very month!—since I caught an earlier incarnation of this show in the same venue and reviewed it for Mooney on Theatre. That was my first taste of Eldritch Theatre’s magical, Muppety brand of gothic capers and I was not prepared for its plushy, macabre lunacy. I’m older now, a little closer to the end, and Eric Woolfe’s whole deal is now entrenched in my theatre-going life! The House at Poe Corner, penned by Woolfe and Michael O’Brien, is an affectionate blend of spooky and cute iconography—riffing on the works of Edgar Allan Poe and A.A. Milne—and it was an absolute joy to revisit it. Continue Reading