Interactive Mystery
Café Rescue
A restaurant rescue becomes a comic investigation, complete with musical parody and a menu full of motives.
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The audience is already in the play.
Created through Mystery Theatre Unlimited
For more than thirty years, Mystery Theatre Unlimited has created interactive mysteries that combine carefully constructed stories, fair-play clues, and genuine audience participation. These plays and collections offer several doors into that three-decade repertoire, all built on one theatrical belief:
The audience doesn’t interrupt the story.
They complete it.
The Repertoire
Thirty cases—and counting.
Explore seventeen individual mysteries—or enter the five-case world of Elliot Brick and eight Interactive Christmas Mysteries.
Behind these featured cases is more than three decades of work: 52 mysteries co-written for Mystery Theatre Unlimited and six published mysteries written by Butch Maxwell.
Featured Mysteries
Five ways into the investigation.
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Dead Reckoning
A fair-play island mystery told in reverse, where every new scene changes what the audience already knows.
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McDeath or Nothing Much about Doo-Doo
Shakespeare’s lost first play finally reaches the stage—and its authentic props turn opening night into murder.
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Signfeld 2040
A retirement-community mystery with pudding cups, contraband goat cheese, Spa-tinis, and one increasingly suspicious metal detector.
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The Adventure of the Many Jacks
Sheerluck Holmes returns for a case involving several Jacks—and remarkably little useful deduction.
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Twelve more doors into the investigation.
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Mind Over Murder
A mind-switching experiment sends five personalities into the wrong bodies—and gives murder an identity crisis.
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Tales from the Script
Three fading horror stars, a Red-baiting congressman and an ambitious secretary turn a Hollywood comeback into a real crime.
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Last Kill and Testament
A toilet tycoon’s suspicious death brings his heirs together for a will reading where everyone wants a bigger share.
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Murder at the Kit Kat Klub
A fading Pocono nightclub welcomes back a successful crooner, putting careers, romances and the club’s future on a collision course.
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Johnny B. Dead
Teen romance, Cold War paranoia and a government investigator collide at a 1957 high school near Area 69.
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Bridgerdon Abbey
Regency grandeur, financial desperation, false identities—and one fatal masquerade.
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How the West Was Dumb
The good guy is an idiot. Unfortunately, he’s in charge.
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My Big Fat Reality Wedding
The wedding is real. The reality is negotiable.
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The Wizard of Odds
A familiar road leads somewhere considerably less sensible.
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Popguy the Sailor Man
He came home for the girl. Somebody brought poison.
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The Capitol Hillbillies
The White House has gone country. The investigation has gone missing.
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Enter a Continuing World
Two collections. Thirteen cases. No quiet evenings.
Five-Case Collection
The Elliot Brick Mysteries
Five full-length interactive musical-comedy mysteries. One detective with a talent for contradictions.
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Interactive Christmas Mysteries
Six trips to the North Pole, a bittersweet pageant reunion, and a picture-perfect holiday movie that goes fatally off script.
Explore the Christmas MysteriesEvery mystery begins with a script.
Every performance becomes a collaboration.