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March 8, 2022
Prime Stage Mystery Theatre:Solving The Mystery of the Clock Room
Last week’s episode of Prime Stage Mystery Theatre presented the puzzle of an interactive space called the clock room. If you haven’t yet listened to that installment, you can check it out here (where you’ll also find all past episodes in the series).
And for those of you who have listened to the segment, here’s a recap of the central puzzle:
The room has twelve locked doors, each positioned like the hours of a clock and labeled with an apparently random word or phrase.
You have 12 keys, each la...
March 3, 2022
Prime Stage Mystery Theatre Presents:A Time-Travel-Classics Mystery
What 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 Christmas Carol, and Slaughterhouse Five), and at least one that you’ve likely never heard of before (The Whenever War).
Titled “Time is Out of Joint,” our new puzzle story pr...
March 1, 2022
This Month at Prime Stage:Mystery Theatre & A Wrinkle in Time
You 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 solved before time runs out.
That’s the premise of this month’s all-new mystery “Time is Out of Joint,” which begins this Thursday and runs through March 31 on Prime Stage Mystery Theatre—the po...
December 17, 2021
Unfolding:New SciFi Horror on The Wicked Library
It seemed a harmless obsession, folding paper into hollow spheres, pyramids, and stars. But the administrators feared the power of his art. He had to be stopped. To save the world. To save himself.
Hear the complete story on Season 11 of The Wicked Library, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Podchaser, Stitcher, or by simply clicking the player below.
I’ll meet you there!
November 18, 2021
Live Theatre: On Stage and In Your Home
No doubt about it. We’re in the midst of a paradigm shift—a time for reconsidering old assumptions even as we hope for a long-awaited return to normal.
Consider: the past two years have seen an explosion of teleconferences, delivery services, and online commerce. Mask wearing and physical distancing effectively canceled last year’s cold and flu season, and mRNA technology has become a medical game-changer. Likewise … [Read more at The 21st Century Scop].
November 11, 2021
Celebrating a Performance that was …“All part of the day’s work.”
Ninety years ago this month, when James’ Whale’s Frankenstein was being made, “nobody recognized the importance of the film and the impact it would have on cinema history. It was just part of the day’s work, as far as my father was concerned.”
That’s according to Sara Karloff, daughter of the man who created one of cinema’s most iconic performances.
[Read more at The 21st Century Scop.]
November 7, 2021
More than a Monster:Karloff Reveals the Man behind the Icon
Arrayed with costumes and memorabilia, the set of Karloff: The Man and the Monster presents a snapshot of the actor’s career. There’s a sheep’s wool vest from Son of Frankenstein, sarcophagus from The Mummy, gurney from The Bride of Frankenstein, wheelchair from the set of Targets. Behind it all, a projection screen displays the iconic image of a flattened head and scarred brow—instantly recognizable as that of ’s design for Universal’s iconic monster.
Enter David Nackman. Slim, grizzl...
November 6, 2021
Tonight: Live on Stage
Join us for the opening night performance of Karloff: The Man and the Monster by Randy Bowser.
The curtain rises at 8:00 PM at Pittsburgh’s New Hazlett Theatre.
After the show, I’ll be joining Director Art DeConciliis and Producing Artistic Director Wayne Brinda for a discussion of the show and next season’s premiere of Frankenstein.
Tickets and information are available at the Prime Stage website. See you there!
October 21, 2021
Talking Frankenstein
“You’re going to see and feel the essence of who this man was.”
– Director Art DeConciliis discussing Prime Stage’s upcoming production of Karloff: The Man and the Monster.
In an earlier post, I mentioned how actor Boris Karloff—the man who gave us cinema’s iconic performance as the Frankenstein creature—worked for years as a baggage handler, ditch digger, and delivery man before getting his big break in James Whale’s film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel. And earlier this month, Prime Stage...
Talking Frankenstein
“You’re going to see and feel the essence of who this man was.”
– Director Art DeConciliis discussing Prime Stage’s upcoming production of Karloff: The Man and the Monster.
In an earlier post, I mentioned how actor Boris Karloff—the man who gave us cinema’s iconic performance as the Frankenstein creature—worked for years as a baggage handler, ditch digger, and delivery man before getting his big break in James Whale’s film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel. And earlier this month, Prime Stag...
