Tag: Prime Stage Mystery Theatre

  • More from Milford Fest: Live and In Person.

    More from Milford Fest: Live and In Person.

    In an age when professional magazines are inundated with computer-generated submissions and screen actors can be replaced by CG doppelgangers, there are still activities that remain exclusively in the human domain. I’m referring to in-person events. You can try and simulate them with Zoom and Facetime, but there’s nothing like the real thing, and I…

  • Forward into the Past: Milford Writers Festival

    Forward into the Past: Milford Writers Festival

    Eliot … crashed a convention of science-fiction writers in a motel in Milford, Pennsylvania …. “I love you sons of bitches,” Eliot said …. “You’re all I read any more. You’re the only ones who’ll talk about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space…

  • Mystery Theatre has Moved

    Mystery Theatre has Moved

    Find PSMT at its new domain. Launched during the height of the first COVID wave, Prime Stage Mystery Theatre was initially designed to fill a gap left by live theatre performances during those dark months of social distancing. Thus, the theatre company known for “bringing theatre to life” took on the new mission of “bringing…

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

    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 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:Knock-Code Charts & Ancient Alphabets

    This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    Knock-Code Charts & Ancient Alphabets

    Can the arrangement of carved squares on the front of a locked wardrobe provide a clue for decoding the tapping sounds coming from within? And what about the red-and-white dragon heads in the center of each square? Could they possibly indicate the language of the coded message? Those are just some of the questions you…