Tag: Frankenstein
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More than a Monster:
Karloff Reveals the Man behind the IconArrayed with costumes and memorabilia, the set of Karloff: The Man and the Monster presents a snapshot of the actor’s career. There’s a sheep’s wool vest from Son of Frankenstein, sarcophagus from The Mummy, gurney from The Bride of Frankenstein, wheelchair from the set of Targets. Behind it all, a projection screen displays the iconic…
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Talking Frankenstein
“You’re going to see and feel the essence of who this man was.” – Director Art DeConciliis discussing Prime Stage’s upcoming production of Karloff: The Man and the Monster. In an earlier post, I mentioned how actor Boris Karloff—the man who gave us cinema’s iconic performance as the Frankenstein creature—worked for years as a…
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A Trap Full of Monsters:
The Return of Prime Stage Mystery Theatre“It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.” The above advice comes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes and the father of modern detective fiction. And it will be good…
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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…