Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: mystery stories

  • This Week on PSMT:
    The Mystery of the Hidden Key

    Last fall, in the final act of Prime Stage Mystery Theatre’s “In the Ghost Light’s Glow,” we discovered a key inside the secret compartment of an old pencil box. Then, last week, in Act IV of “The Elf in the Wardrobe,” that key made a return appearance as our characters attempted to open a locked…

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    The Language of Anglo-Saxon Ælves

    This week’s installment of Prime Stage Mystery Theatre includes a conversation about the Old English language with scholar and actor Patrick Conner. You can listen to an excerpt of our interview with Dr. Conner in Act IV of Mystery Theatre’s “The Ælf in the Wardrobe” by clicking here or using the media player at the…

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    A Challenge to the Listener

    It’s really a simple matter. I maintain that at this point […] you have all the facts in your possession essential to a clear solution of the mystery. The mystery writing team Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee (writing under the pseudonym Ellery Queen) used to include the above statement toward the end of their…

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    There’s Something in the Basement

      Who’s there? Here’s the setup: You’re in the basement of a theatre building. Alone. The rest of the company is next door, painting a set on the main stage while you hunt for something called a snow-patterned gobo. The basement is a mess. No organization. Just a chaotic jumble of old props and flats…

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    Ghosts & Stories

    In response to last week’s post “The Most Haunted Place in Pittsburgh,” Facebook friend Michael Brendan informs us that his father actually had an encounter with a Playhouse ghost. “It was John,” Michael writes, referring to the ghost of deceased thespian John Johns. “Dad saw him once in the seats after a show had ended.…

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    The Most Haunted Place in Pittsburgh

    For two weeks running, audiences who attended Prime Stage Theatre’s production of Frankenstein witnessed a haunting at the New Hazlett Theatre. Of course, it was part of the performance, with actor Suzanne Ward appearing as the white-clad spirit of Victor Frankenstein’s mother. <<< The ghost of Caroline Frankenstein haunts her son’s laboratory in Prime Stage’s…