Tag: Agatha Christie

  • Poirot is Back:
    Live at the O’Reilly & Streaming on Hulu

    Hercule Poirot enters in a swirl of mist–walking stick in hand, overcoat draped across his shoulders, and a great mustache perched atop his upper lip. In all, he seems to have stepped from the pages of one of Agatha Christie’s novels. Played with great flair by Pittsburgh-based actor, director, and playwright Martin Giles, this Poirot…

  • Prime Stage Mystery Theatre: Bringing Mystery to the Virtual Stage

    Prime Stage Mystery Theatre:
    Bringing Mystery to the Virtual Stage

    Agatha Christie had quite a formula. She didn’t discover it. Others employed similar elements before her, and many more have practiced it since. But Christie perfected it with her cozy who-done-its featuring Hercule Poirot. Above: Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) explains his solution to the story’s mystery in Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on…

  • Countdown to Mystery:
    Murder on the Orient Express

    We’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…