Foul Play Cafe
Albuquerque's premier Interactive Mystery Dinner Theater
Albuquerque's premier Interactive Mystery Dinner Theater
Past Shows
September - November 2014
"Spirits of Suspicion" by David Landau
Directed by Mark Balistreri
"A comic tribute to the THIN MAN movies. Dick and Dora Charles are invited to a seance at the Top Hat Club, owned by Dick's old friend Bunny. Bunny wants to contact her murdered husband, Rocky - a gangster who supposedly hid a million dollars somewhere in the club. But the seance goes awry as a female patron of the club becomes possessed by both Rocky and the female singer who was murdered along with him. Dick and Dora face off to see who can be the first to solve who killed Rocky and where the missing million dollars is in this 1940's style mystery."
June - August 2014
"Divorcing the Mob" by Robert L. Michaels
Directed by Warren Asa Wilgus
"We all know what happens when you marry into the mob, but what happens when you want to get a divorce? Jerry Moyer is going to find out. Now he's being pursued by a hit-man hired by his father-in-law, the boss of a rival Family and even his own wife. Thankfully, F.B.I. Agent John O'Toole knows the best place to hide Jerry: The G & T nightclub. Unfortunately for Agent O'Toole, the others seem to have the same idea."
March - May 2014
"Arsenic and Old Spice" by Terry S. Davis
Directed by Eddie Dethlefs, Co-Directed by Warren Asa Wilgus
Hedda Hare, headmistress of the Adam McAdam Academy, has few friends on her staff. Join us for Prospective Parents Night, as she makes her swan song and help us figure out which of them might have done her in.
Was it assistant headmistress — er, master — Phil Space; parents society president Mimi Mee; admissions counselor Fuller Halls, cafeteria manager Truly Sweet, music teacher Mary Tune, phys ed instructor Lata Sweatt, or even the head of security, Chase Crooks?
December 2013 - February 2014
"Noir Suspicions" by David Landau
Directed by Eddie Dethlefs
The continuing adventures of Rick Archer and the "Cafe Noir"!
(No need to have seen "Murder at Cafe Noir" to enjoy this sequel.)
Rick, now the manager of Cafe Noir on the island of Mustique, finds himself confused by a corpse at the dock, a mysterious woman, a French blackmailer and a businessman after both the Cafe Noir and the femme fatale Sheila Wonderly. Rick is arrested after the murder of the blackmailer in his club and it's up to the you the audience to convince the magistrate of his innocence.
September - November, 2013
"Virginia Jones & the Inca Revenge" by David Landau
Directed by Eddie Dethlefs
The audience are the survivors of Professor Marcus' ill fated expedition in the Andes. Celebrating at the Blue Iguana Cafe in the wilds of the Peruvian Jungle, rescuer Virginia Jones must discover the truth behind the cause of the avalanche that doomed the adventure. Was the expedition looking for a lost Inca temple or hidden Inca gold that eluded Pizzarro? Could a discovered faded parchment really bare ancient Inca symbols of a secret language? Is there really such a thing as the Inca revenge? Adventuress Virginia Jones is back in an all new 1930's mystery, meeting up with dangerous revolutionaries with a price on their head, ruthless treasure seekers and a very funny native shaman.
June - August, 2013
"Murder, Las Vegas Style" by James Daab
Directed by Nikki Taylor
The lights on “The Strip” have never been brighter! The whole city of Las Vegas is buzzing about the Entertainer of the Year Contest. Every lounge lizard in town is entering, and the competition will be fierce, because the grand prize is a lifetime booking at the biggest joint in town! There isn’t an Elvis imitator or Wayne Newton wannabe around that wouldn’t kill for the chance to work that room. And we do mean KILL!
March - May 2013"The Art of Murder" by Terry Davis
Directed by Nikki Taylor & Jennifer Sharp
Les craves appreciation for his art, but his paintings hurt the eyes. Meanwhile, people love his cooking and flock to his cafe/gallery, turning a cold shoulder to his paintings. After Les turns up dead, he comes back as a ghost to solve his own murder. Was it his helium-breathed girlfriend who thought his art would be valuable once he died, or his lost-in-the-60s assistant cook who loved Les’ girlfriend? Or was it Les’ sister who never got any family love, or Les’ feminist neighbor, torn by her love for him and who might have killed him to meet him in another life?
December 2012 - February 2013"Murder at Cafe Noir" by David Landau
Directed by Eddie Dethlefs
A 40's private detective story come to life. Rick Archer, P.I., is hired to find a runaway - "A gal who has more curves than the west coast highway." His search leads him to the Cafe Noir, the only club on the forgotten island of Mustique, a place stuck in the black & white 1940's. The cafe's owner has washed up murdered and the gal he came to find was the last person seen with him alive. Now he must use his hard-boiled detective talents to find the real killer. Was it the French Madame and manager of the club, the voodoo priestess, the shyster British attorney, the black marketeer, or the femme fatale herself?
August - November 2012
"Mr. Mayweather's Mansion of Mystery" by Robert L. Michaels
Directed by Micah Linford
Hershel Mayweather has invited you to join his family & closest friends in their attempts to determine if the historic Mayweather Estate is, indeed, haunted. Learn the history of the Mansion, meet the renowned psychic (or, as he prefers: medium) Alberto Abelard, and enjoy a four course meal as the events of the evening unfold. Will spirits appear? What will they want? Will someone be hurt? Or, worse, killed? Will you be able to figure out what happened if they are? There's only one way to find out! Come enjoy Mr. Mayweather's Mansion of Mystery!
April - July 2012"Virginia Jones and the Curse of Nergal" by David Landau
Directed by Eddie Dethlefs
A mystery spoof of the Hollywood adventure films. The time, 1932. The place, Marlene's Cabaret in Liechtenstein. Wealthy explorer Sir Wallis Burgess is dead, his ashes in an urn he retrieved from the recently discovered tomb of the Mesopotamian God of the Underworld, Nergal. Some say he died of the curse. Others suspect his greedy wife, his mysterious mistress, his double-crossing partner or the dangerous followers of the Underworld God. It is up to adventuress Virginia Jones to discover which as well as what became of the map of the catacombs and the Eye of Nergal. To do so she must battle wits and skills with her arch nemesis the Baron DeFalcon, as well as their mutual desire for one another.
December 2011 - March 2012"Family can be Murder" by Robert L. Michaels
Directed by Micah Linford
Family reunions can be murder. In the case of the Hubbard family, that might be a very literal statement. When Alex & Toby Hubbard show up to spend the Holidays with their father, Joseph, they find that his new young wife may be maneuvering to make herself the sole heir to their father's fortune.
