By Samuel Long

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PITTSBURGH — With the goal of bringing literature and history to the live stage, Prime Stage Theatre is debuting its 2025-26 season with a cemetery walk.

The annual event will feature notable figures such as 1905 supermodel Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, steamboat captain Thomas Shields Clarke and industrialist Henry Oliver — all of whom have a historical connection to Pittsburgh. Attendees get to hear their stories at Allegheny Cemetery in Lawrenceville rain or shine during 12 one-hour walking tours from noon-4 p.m. June 21.

Prime Stage Theatre’s 2025-26 season begins Nov. 7-16 with “Mr. Poe Presents an Evening of Horror, Mystery, and Imagination. In this play, writer Lawrence C. Connolly delves into the mind of Edgar Allen Poe by performing a selection of

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