Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: Prime Stage Theatre

  • Get out Your Spyglasses and Wineglasses:
    A New Chapter of PSMT Begins Today

    Would you drink a wine labeled Arrogant Frog? How about Big Ass Red or Cat’s Pee on a Gooseberry Bush? Yes, they’re real wines, and just a few of the crazier ones listed in a Vinepair article titled “10 Of The World’s Weirdest Wine Labels.” And although a recent article in Bloomberg claims that winemakers…

  • Coming May 5 to PSMT:
    Episode One of “A Most Deadly Poison”

    With Prime Stage set to release a new season of Mystery Theatre in May, there’s no time like now to catch up on past installments, all of which are available on Apple,   Audible,   Deezer,   Libsyn,   Spotify, or the podcasts page at PrimeStage.com. Each season features an all-new five-act mystery, with most episodes running between 10-15 minutes–just right for…

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:”
    The Conclusion of “Time is Out of Joint”

    In this week’s episode of Mystery Theatre’s “Time is Out of Joint,” we explore what mystery writer August LaFleur calls “the dream hemisphere.” That is, we consider stories that “depict time travel as a state of mind rather than a mechanical process.” I’ve always been intrigued by such stories, exemplified by titles like A Christmas…

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    An Escalating Puzzle for a Way-Out Mystery

    The electric sign reading Way Out glowed before the ascending treads of a stainless-steel escalator. Mounted on the wall beside the rising stairs were advertisements for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Blockbuster Video, and American Pie 2. But soon those early 21st-century advertisements gave way to ones for Crystal Pepsi, Bill & Ted’s Excellent…

  • This Month at Prime Stage:
    Mystery Theatre & A Wrinkle in Time

    You are in a circular room with twelve locked doors. Each door is positioned like the hours of a clock and stenciled with an apparently random word or phrase. You have 12 keys, each labeled with a different code. Your task: decipher the codes, unlock the doors, and begin unraveling a mystery that must be…

  • Live Theatre: On Stage and In Your Home

    No doubt about it. We’re in the midst of a paradigm shift—a time for reconsidering old assumptions even as we hope for a so-called return to normal. Consider: the past two years have seen an explosion of teleconferences, delivery services, and online commerce. Mask wearing and physical distancing effectively canceled last year’s cold and flu…