Tag: Prime Stage Mystery Theatre
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This Week on Mystery Theatre:
Another Door, Another Time-Travel StoryWhich classic time-travel device would you use to escape the clock room in Prime Stage Mystery Theatre’s “Time is Out of Joint”? Find out in today’s installment, which also features some time-travel recommendations from folks active in the field of science fiction, mystery, fantasy, and horror. You can hear it all by clicking here or…
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This Week on Mystery Theatre:
Time-Travel RecommendationsA couple of weeks ago on Prime Stage Mystery Theatre, we asked: What is your favorite time-travel story? We had already listed a dozen titles (all featured in the Mystery Theatre story “Time is Out of Joint”). You can check out our posts of March 3rd and March 8th for more information on those titles,…
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Prime Stage Mystery Theatre Presents:
A Time-Travel-Classics MysteryWhat is your favorite time-travel story? This month’s audio tale at Prime Stage Mystery Theatre centers on a dozen time travel classics, including some of the genre’s best-known science-fiction titles (The Time Machine, Back to the Future, A Wrinkle in Time), a few that lie on the edge of the genre (A Connecticut Yankee, A…
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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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Who’s listening?
Advantages and Pitfalls of Wireless Audio“I do community theater, and all muting and unmuting is done from the tech booth. Well, every once in a while, if the tech person can’t mute an actor’s mic right away when they leave the stage, the audience catches them saying something like, ‘Well, I really f****d THAT up!’” The above account, courtesy of…
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The Sound’s the Thing:
Audio Clues on Mystery TheatreIn Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Conversation (1974) surveillance expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) becomes obsessed with a cryptic recording that he believes suggests a young couple is in danger. Similarly, in Brian De Palma’s Blow Out (1981), sound engineer Jack Terri (John Travolta) investigates a mystery by listening to a recording made at the…