When in Nome, Sherlock Holmes?

The play features a number of clever ideas that are sure to entertain audiences but also some lumpiness in the writing of this world premiere that will surely disappoint some Holmes fans…

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ion’s Mystery Plays is for Genre Junkies

The Mystery Man

Mystery Plays were medieval pageants that were acceptable to church authorities because they were moral fables based on Biblical tales. Mr. Aguirre-Sacasa’s mystery plays are also moral fables, but his Bible is the horror genre itself, as taken from its most populist master practitioners: Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone,” Alfred Hitchcock, H. P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King.

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