A Downton Abbey Whodunnit Comes to Good Theater in AN INSPECTOR CALLS
by Robert Diamond - October 17, 2017 Good Theater continues its 16th season with J.B. Priestley's award-winning An Inspector Calls, opening November 1 and playing through November 26 at Good Theater's home, the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street, Portland....
BWW Interview: Billy Mitchell Talks VILLAIN: DEBLANKS
by David Clarke - March 22, 2017 Billy Mitchell's hilarious VILLAIN: DEBLANKS makes a triumphant New York City return tonight at Feinstein's/54 Below. Tonight's sold out show features Kathleen Turner, Morena Baccarin, Lesli Margherita, Michael Potts, Maulik Pancholy, and Micah Stock and will benefit New York Civil Liberties Union....
Stoneham Theatre Presents Musical Farce LUCKY STIFF
by A.A. Cristi - August 23, 2016 Stoneham Theatre opens its 17th Season with Lucky Stiff, a musical murder mystery farce about love, dogs, diamonds, and death. From the creators of Ragtime and Seussical, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Directed by Caitlin Lowans and Choreographed by Elliot Norton and IRNE Award-winner Ilyse Robbi...
BWW Review: BISTANY'S MYSTERIES Choose-Your-Own Murder Mystery Comedy at ImprovBoston
by Justin J Sacramone - January 26, 2016 When the author greeted the audience at the top of Bistany's Mysteries he explained that when he sat down to give us his latest novel, he realized suddenly he was staring at a partially blank page. Panicked as opening night quickly approached, Mr. Bistany had a brilliant idea: let the audience come ... 
BWW Review: SHEAR MADNESS at Good Theater
by Dan Marois - January 29, 2018 Good Theater tops the mystery theater genre with a production of Shear Madness...
Brenda Braxton and More Set for VILLAIN: DEBLANKS BC/EFA Benefit at 54 Below Tonight
by BWW News Desk - August 04, 2015 54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents a special performance of Villain: DeBlanks, a fill-in-the-blanks whodunnit, at 9:30 pm tonight, August 4, to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS....
The National New Play Network World Premiere of PULP Opens October 7 at the Know
by A.A. Cristi - September 13, 2016 Washed-up PI Frank Ellery takes on the strangest case of his life. A hack literary agent has been gruesomely murdered, and the four suspects are the agent's remaining clients: wildly eccentric writers for different pulp magazines....
The Peterborough Players present SHERLOCK
by A.A. Cristi - August 11, 2016 Performed by the Players Second Company, this new adaptation of a classic tale featuring Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, James Moriarty and an array of characters from the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, will have audiences of all ages guessing 'whodunnit?'... 
BWW Review: SHEAR MADNESS at The Kennedy Center Celebrates 30 Years of Killings
by Sam Abney - March 16, 2018 Few productions can claim to be as much of an institution as Shear Madness is to Washington, D.C. Celebrating 30 years at the Kennedy Center, this show has become once of theater's most notorious tourist traps. This comedic caper whose plot can vary wildly each night incentivizes repeat viewings to ...
New Comedy Web Series JANICE GUNTER, GHOST HUNTER Seeks Distribution Partner
by Caryn Robbins - October 23, 2015 One Glass Video, a producer of video and branded content, announced today that it is seeking distribution partners for a new comedy web series, Janice Gunter, Ghost Hunter....
THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP Opens at Montecasino Theatre Tonight
by BWW News Desk - July 05, 2017 Opening tonight, Jonathan Roxmouth, one of the biggest names in South African theatre, stars with the inimitable Weslee Swain Lauder in THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP as they have never been seen before. The acclaimed play is conceived and written by Charles Ludlum, and is directed by Elizma Badenhorst wit... 
BWW Review: SOMETHING'S AFOOT at Dutch Apple Dinner Theater
by Rich Mehrenberg - January 12, 2018 There haven't been many popular mystery musicals over the years. I suspect it has something to do with a conflict of genres. Effective mysteries are cerebral. Audience members must perform mental gymnastics in order to outwit the detective. Musicals (with the exception of Sondheim) often prioritize ...
Theatre Raleigh Presents SLEUTH, Now thru 8/16
by BWW News Desk - August 05, 2015 Theatre Raleigh presents Sleuth at Kennedy Theatre tonight, August 5-16 (August 5 Preview Night, August 6 Opening Night). Sleuth has all the ingredients of a top-class thriller, a plot whose twists and turns are breathtakingly audacious and fiendishly cunning; with suspense and excitement galore....
VR Theatrical Announces Sidesplitting THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP for Pieter Toerien's Montecasino Theatre and Theatre On The Bay this Winter
by David Fick - April 28, 2017 DOWNTON ABBEY and the TWILIGHT saga collide in Charles Ludlam's spoof, THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP, which will be presented in South Africa by VR Theatrical by special arrangement with Samuel French....
Mischief Theatre's THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Extends Booking Into April 2017
by Tyler Peterson - April 28, 2016 Mischief Theatre, the creators of the smash-hit, Oliver Award-winning show The Play That Goes Wrong today announce the extension of their critically acclaimed brand new smash-hit play The Comedy About A Bank Robbery which has extended for a further 6 months, and is now booking until 23 April 2017, c...
BWW Review: THE MOUSETRAP, New Alexandra Theatre, 31 October 2016
by Emma Cann - November 02, 2016 Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap truly is a theatrical phenomenon. The enduring popularity of this classic whodunnit story is unprecedented; its mixture of drama, horror, comedy and farce appealing to audiences of all generations, despite changing social conditions and artistic trends. Now a tourist ...
Vagabond Players to Continue 100th Season with SOMETHING'S AFOOT
by Tyler Peterson - September 30, 2015 The marvelous musical murder mystery, Something's Afoot, opens at the Vagabond Theatre in Fell's Point on Friday, October 16, and continues through November 15. This production, with book, music and lyrics by James McDonald, David Vos, and Robert Gerlach, is directed by Eric J.Potter and features a ...
THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP Comes to Montecasino Theatre from 5 July
by A.A. Cristi - June 20, 2017 Jonathan Roxmouth, one of the biggest names in South African theatre, stars with the inimitable Weslee Swain Lauder in THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP as they have never been seen before. The acclaimed play is conceived and written by Charles Ludlum, and is directed by Elizma Badenhorst with an original sco...
Brooklyn Theatre Co. presents THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
by A.A. Cristi - February 15, 2017 The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a hilarious, interactive whodunnit mystery musical that allows the audience to enter the action and become the ultimate detectives. The show is based on Charles Dickens' unfinished novel of the same name. In small town of Chesterham, England, the young and charming Edwi...
Landless Theatre Presents Second MetalTheatre Production: METALDROOD
by Rebecca Russo - September 02, 2016 Enter the mysterious, comical, raucous, and risque world of the English music hall, where the audience determines the outcome. Who killed Edwin Drood? Who is Dick Datchery? And who finds love in the end? You choose!...
BWW Review: THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND Rings Down the Curtain on Bad Habit Productions
by Nancy Grossman - March 25, 2017 Bad Habit Productions is about to drop the final curtain after ten years of delivering award-winning theater, but they are not taking the easy way out. Director Dawn M. Simmons and an ensemble of eight actors make sense of Tom Stoppard's 1968 comedy whodunnit, THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND, even as they ...
ONSTAGE in Bedford Announces 32nd Season
by Liz Cearns - October 07, 2016 ONSTAGE in Bedford Artistic Director Michael B. Winters announced tonight via Facebook the theater's 32nd season, which will be performed at the Trinity Arts Theater in the historic Bedford Boys Ranch. The new season will begin in January, 2017, with a mix of classic plays and newer works, including...
The National New Play Network World Premiere of PULP Opens October 7 at the Know
by BWW News Desk - October 07, 2016 Washed-up PI Frank Ellery takes on the strangest case of his life. A hack literary agent has been gruesomely murdered, and the four suspects are the agent's remaining clients: wildly eccentric writers for different pulp magazines....
Allenberry Playhouse to Present SLEUTH
by Reilly Hickey - September 29, 2015 Allenberry Playhouse, under the leadership of Artistic Director Ryan Gibbs presents Paul Carlin (Allenberry's Damn Yankees, Goodspeed Musicals Mame) and Kevin Loreque (National Tour Cats, National Tour I Am My Own Wife) in Anthony Shaffer's Tony Award-winning thriller Sleuth, from October 7-31....
Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of Lakewood Theatre Company's MURDER ON THE NILE
by BWW News Desk - January 06, 2017 Lakewood Theatre Company continues its 64th season on January 6, 2017 with Agatha Christie's murder mystery masterpiece, Murder On The Nile. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in costume below!... |
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