Tag: live theatre
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This Week on Mystery Theatre:
Arsenic, Old Lace, and Obnoxious PadreFor 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…
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This Month at Prime Stage:
Mystery Theatre & A Wrinkle in TimeYou 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…
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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…
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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…