Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: Arsenic and Old Lace

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:Arsenic, Old Lace, and Obnoxious Padre

    This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    Arsenic, Old Lace, and Obnoxious Padre

    For a gallon of elderberry wine, I take one teaspoonful of arsenic, then add a half teaspoonful of strychnine, and then just a pinch of cyanide. That’s Aunt Martha’s recipe for wine with a kick (as in kick the bucket) from Joseph Kesselring’s dark-comedy classic Arsenic and Old Lace, and it’s too bad Jonathan Brewster…

  • 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…