By Easton Mills Ira Levin’s DEATHTRAP, originally opened on Broadway in 1978, is a self-referential field full of hidden landmines. So covered in plot twists and sudden switches, the play insists on having you disbelieve your own eyes and follow the players down a dark and dismal rabbit hole from which they never recover, and it’s possible you won’t as

Partnership with the Peabody Essex Museum, City of Salem and Creative Collective to honor town as inspiration for ParaNorman’s fictional ‘Blithe Hollow’ setting As part of Salem, Massachusetts’, iconic “Salem Haunted Happenings” month-long Halloween festival, the award-winning animation studio LAIKA has partnered with the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), the City of Salem and Creative Collective to present a series of ParaNorman screenings and live

THE TONY® AWARD-WINNING BEST MUSICAL ‘KINKY BOOTS’ WILL STRUT ITS STUFF ON STAGE AT NORTH SHORE MUSIC THEATRE. October 25 – November 6, 2022 – Tickets on sale now at www.nsmt.org Audiences can expect to feel the energy, joy, and laughter when Bill Hanney’s award-winning North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) presents KINKY BOOTS, the freshest, most fabulous, feel-good musical and the winner of

Dacre Stoker International bestselling author and great grandnephew of Bram Stoker, will be at the Cinema Salem on Tuesday October 11, 2022 giving two 90 minute audio visual presentations (2:30pm and 6pm) 125 years of Dracula: Secrets Revealed, the Mysteries Behind the Research and Writing of Dracula in conjunction with screenings of DRACULA 1931(1pm) and Bram Stoker’s DRACULA 1992 (8pm).

September 20 – October 2, 2022 – Tickets on sale now! Just in time for the season of spooky happenings, Bill Hanney’s award-winning North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) will present LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, the deviously delicious sci-fi musical that has devoured the hearts of theatre goers for over 30 years. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is open for business on

Hamilton Hall is fortunate to be the Salem home of the Boston Artists Ensemble.  Their 2022-3 season will begin on Friday, Sept. 16⁠— and we hope you’ll treat yourself to their talents! In anticipation of their upcoming season, we chatted with Jonathan Miller, founder and Artistic Director of the BAE. We hope you enjoy the conversation below. “For those who don’t know,

Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China On view September 24, 2022 through April 2, 2023 The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China, a new exhibition that explores how the camera transformed perceptions of 19th-century China. Photography’s development as a new art form and technology in the 19th century coincided with profound changes in the way

Recently, Salem Arts Association Presented 2022 Scholarships to Three Local Graduates, Arianna Shalhoub, Lena Faeskorn, and Leena Sarhan. The recipient of the 2022 Ellen Hardy Memorial Arts Scholarship is Lena Ruth Faeskorn. Lena is graduating her homeschool program and will be attending Savannah College of Art and Design. The Ellen Hardy Memorial Scholarship has been awarded since 2018 to a

by Joey Phoenix An alluring drama about trust, gender, love, and money, Goodreau’s The Thing They Love takes inspiration from Mae West’s 1927 dramatization, The Drag. Set in prohibition-era New York City, a big, queer family assembles with familiar yet complicated problems. They must navigate the difference between the world they love, and the world outside their doorstep by learning

By Joey Phoenix This past Sunday, January 16th, Breaking Light Productions released the long awaited filmic adaptation of the Victorian mystery caper Mrs. Hawking: Part 1 on Youtube. The production is available to stream free on the Mrs. Hawking YouTube channel.  Mrs. Hawking: Part 1 by Phoebe Roberts (she/her/hers) and Bernie Gabin (he/him/his) is the first episode in a six-part