Tag: The Play’s the Thing

  • Prime Stage Mystery Theatre:
    “What’s the alternative to looking?”

    The image at left is from the recently restored film Sherlock Holmes (1916), starring William Gillette in the first-ever screen portrayal of the master sleuth. The film is currently streaming on Apple TV. There’s more than one way to find a missing person, but could you do it without actually looking? This week’s episode of…

  • Prime Stage Mystery Theatre:
    Bringing Mystery to the Virtual Stage

    Agatha Christie had quite a formula. She didn’t discover it. Others employed similar elements before her, and many more have practiced it since. But Christie perfected it with her cozy who-done-its featuring Hercule Poirot. At left: Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) explains his solution to the story’s mystery in Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder…

  • Nightmares and Mysteries:
    Prime Stage Mystery Theatre – Season Two

    Heard about the actor’s nightmare? It’s a variation of the dream in which you find yourself completely out of place and unprepared for a given situation. You know, like being in the produce section of a grocery store, standing behind a stack of vegetables and hoping no one notices your naked. Or perhaps it’s the…