Tag: Prime Stage Mystery Theatre
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Countdown to Mystery:
Murder on the Orient ExpressWe’re counting down to Prime Stage Theatre’s release of A Knavish Piece of Mystery, the first installment in a roster of virtual programming running this fall on Prime Online. The series has been generating good press in the past few days, with preview stories appearing on Local Pittsburgh and Trib Live. And I understand there…
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Countdown to Mystery: Deathtrap
In our previous installment, I mentioned the meta-aspects of Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth – a cat-and-mouse thriller about a writer who turns his estate into an interactive mystery in an effort to ensnare the man who’s been sleeping with his wife. Today’s recommendation is Deathtrap (1982), and this time the story centers on playwright Sidney Bruhl…
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Countdown to Mystery: Sleuth (1972)
With a week to go before Prime Stage Theatre lifts the curtain on my new mystery series A Knavish Piece of Mystery, I thought it might be fun to look back at the plays, films, and stories that first got me interested in mysteries. I don’t intend this to be a definitive list of the…
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Upcoming Events at Prime Stage Theatre:
Mystery, Monsters, and More …This site has been quiet for a while. Things have been busy, what with dodging the microscopic shrapnel of World War C. Through it all, I’ve been doing my best to learn from the examples set by writers who lived through past epidemics – Sherwood Anderson, Beatrix Potter, and W.E.B. Du Bois (all of whom…