Murder Mysteries

For those ready for fully-immersive, interactive theatre, we offer select groups and smaller audiences an opportunity to step back into the 1920s or the 1940s and participate in a comedic murder mystery in which the audience is not only an integral part of the evening, they are part of the show. Our mysteries are held in historic homes, small hotels, bed and breakfasts, or intimate restaurants where we can 'take over' the entire site and set up props, pictures, period radios, and even period furniture to create an appropriate atmosphere. The audience is encouraged to wear appropriate period attire themselves and is provided ahead of time with basic instructions as well as biographies of the main characters so they will know whom to expect to meet. Aside from that, they are on their own. From the moment the audience arrives, they will meet, talk, mingle, and even eat with costumed characters who will commit murder and then accuse one another, as well as audience members themselves, of various crimes, cover-ups, and conspiracies.

Tony Rigatoni and Flopsy Flannigan: innocent suspects or co-conspirators in murder?

Meet me at Mount Vernon at midnight.

A jazz hot baby

Archie and Mags

THE DEATH MASK OF KING WALLA WALLA BING BANG. Set in 1927, you will be a close friend and invited guest to the home of of Arichibald Gilderslice McGill, randy and cash-poor playboy, and his new wife, Daisy Leibowitz Lee-McGill, heir to the Lee family fortune. You will meet Daisy's estranged sister and famous ex-Broadway star, Magnolia Lipshutz Lee, as well as Daisy's multi-widowed best friend, Luvey Kaphfladel Poisson Benwah Van-Strudel Ptookmbwe Hershey Titwilder. Also at the party will be Archy's personal secretary, Flopsy Flannigan, Archy's business partner, Tony Rigatoni, the presumed dead Col. Corky McCorkindale, and the famous British mystery novelist and amateur sleuth, Derek Deerstalker.

IT'S ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR. The year is 1943 and its time for the 30th reunion of Dr. Riddlin's Academy For Didaskaleinophobic Darlings, Class of 1913, of which you are also an alumni. You will meet all your long lost classmates, including Ming Toy O'Malley, the Chinese-Irish musical prodigy, the identical twin brothers, Vorky and Corky Stump, the class beauty queen and present-day cosmetic magnate, Esther Louder, the school's all-star gymnast, Tandalaya Prsylbylski, the class nerd, Irma Calabash, Captain of the cheerleading squad, Betsy "Toodles" Fleam, Captain of the Football Team, Biff Beauregard, and the president of the drama club and present day radio star, Hayward Hawks.

Mysteries require a minimum of three hours and work best over an entire evening or even a weekend. For overnight murder mysteries, the guests will even find clues in their own rooms!