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October 29, 2020
The Final Reveal: Act V of A Knavish Piece of Mystery
You’ve explored the mystery, assembled the clues, dismissed the red hearings. Now it’s time for the final reveal. If you’ve been with us through the previous episodes of Prime Stage Mystery Theatre, you’re ready to move on to the final scene. You’ll find the link to that episode here. Otherwise, you’ll want to access the library of previous installments. After all, a good mystery should … [read more at The 21st-Century Scop].
The Final Reveal: Act V of A Knavish Piece of Mystery
You’ve explored the mystery, assembled the clues, dismissed the red hearings. Now it’s time for the final reveal. If you’ve been with us through the previous episodes of Prime Stage Mystery Theatre, you’re ready to move on to the final scene. You’ll find the link to that episode here. Otherwise, you’ll want to access the library of previous installments. After all, a good mystery should be about the entire journey.
One of the fun aspects of working on this series has been including stories from ...
October 23, 2020
Greg Hall on Mystery Theatre
I once said that if Greg Hall didn’t exist, the horror genre would have to invent him. That’s still true. He’s one of a kind. An improve comic who became an internet radio pioneer who went on to write stories and books leavened with equal dashes of horror and outrageous humor. He’s a versatile guy, but he’s perhaps best known for his alter ego The Funky Werepig, a podcast host who is to Greg Hall what Tony Clifton was to Andy Kaufman.
Over the years, The Funky Werepig podcast has interviewed som...
Greg Hall on Mystery Theatre
I once said that if Greg Hall didn’t exist, the horror genre would have to invent him. That’s still true. He’s one of a kind. An improve comic who became an internet radio pioneer who went on to write stories and books leavened with equal dashes of horror and outrageous humor. He’s a versatile guy, but he’s perhaps best known for his alter ego The Funky Werepig, a podcast host who is to Greg Hall what Tony Clifton was to Andy Kaufman.
Over the years, The Funky Werepig podcast has interviewed som...
October 15, 2020
What’s Inside the Locked Room? A Knavish Piece of Mystery – Act 3
You might think that the best way to solve a locked-door mystery would be to open the room and see what’s inside. But what happens when what’s inside provides more questions than answers?
We’ll explore those possibilities today as Prime Stage Mystery Theatre’s podcast A Knavish Piece of Mystery enters its third week with a new episode that considers how the solutions we seek may not be solutions at all.
Also, we’ll take time at the beginning of the show to discuss suggestions for opening locked ...
October 8, 2020
Prime Stage Theatre Presents: A Knavish Piece of Mystery – Act II
Strange things are afoot at the New Town Theatre!
Two actors are missing. Another has run off to hide in a water closet. And the New Town players are struggling to open a locked room that may harbor a terrible secret.
But August LaFleur holds back. An expert at devising and solving mysteries, he’s convinced that the real answers may lie deeper within the theatre’s renovated rehearsal space.
And so begins an exploration of a haunted brownstone — a windowless building with few exits … and ample p...
Prime Stage Theatre Presents: A Knavish Piece of Mystery – Act II
Strange things are afoot at the New Town Theatre!
Two actors are missing. Another has run off to hide in a water closet. And the New Town players are struggling to open a locked room that may harbor a terrible secret.
But August LaFleur holds back. An expert at devising and solving mysteries, he’s convinced that the real answers may lie deeper within the theatre’s renovated rehearsal space.
And so begins an exploration of a haunted brownstone — a windowless building with few exits … and ample p...
October 1, 2020
Prime Online Presents: A Knavish Piece of Mystery
Something strange is afoot at the New Town Theater. A dressing room is locked. Two actors are missing. And You are there to join the investigation as a cast and crew confront a mystery in which nothing is as it seems. [Read more at The 21st-Century Scop.]
Prime Online Presents: A Knavish Piece of Mystery
Something strange is afoot at the New Town Theater. A dressing room is locked. Two actors are missing. And You are there to join the investigation as a cast and crew confront a mystery in which nothing is as it seems.
Get out your spy glasses and notepads … and prepare to take part in a behind-the-scenes adventure that explores the intersection of life and storytelling — an investigation in which You will discover that mysteries are everywhere.
To that end, after you finish listening, be sure t...
September 30, 2020
Countdown to Mystery: Locked Doors
A woman enters a room. Closes the door. Then, from inside, a voice cries “Murder!” When her father breaks down the door, he finds her bleeding on the floor. She is alone. The windows are barred. There is no other exit. Yet the perpetrator is gone!
And so begins The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Le mystère de la chambre jaune) by Gaston Leroux (1908), a novel considered by many to be one of the greatest locked-door mysteries of all time.
Over the years, some of mystery’s greatest writers have tried...
