Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: Prime Stage Mystery Theatre

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:Strange Paintings and Stranger Names

    This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    Strange Paintings and Stranger Names

    Is the woman in the portrait turning toward or away from the viewer? Is she young or is she old? And what if anything might she reveal about the name Ms. Ambertin? It’s enough to confound even a master sleuth, and yet–according to August LaFleur–everything you need to answer the questions and more may be…

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre: The Case of the Rotating Portrait

    This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    The Case of the Rotating Portrait

    You study the girl in the portrait, her face askance, as if she is in the process of turning away from the viewer. Her skin is smooth, neck slender and adorned with a ribbon, head high and capped with a bonnet. You fix your gaze, study her until, in a blink, the portrait changes. The…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:”The Conclusion of “Time is Out of Joint”

    This Week on Mystery Theatre:”
    The Conclusion of “Time is Out of Joint”

    In this week’s episode of Mystery Theatre’s “Time is Out of Joint,” we explore what mystery writer August LaFleur calls “the dream hemisphere.” That is, we consider stories that “depict time travel as a state of mind rather than a mechanical process.” I’ve always been intrigued by such stories, exemplified by titles like A Christmas…

  • Mystery Theatre Exclusive:Signed copies of Nightmares and Visions

    Mystery Theatre Exclusive:
    Signed copies of Nightmares and Visions

    Gauntlet Press is now shipping the numbered edition of the first English-language release of Nightmares, an anthology in which I rejoin three of my collaborators from the feature film Nightmare Cinema (2019). The stories featured in the book are: “As You Sleep” by Mexico’s bestselling author Sandra Becerill, whose most recent books include La Soledad…