Austin Playhouse is opening their season with Ken Ludwig’s sparkling new comic murder-mystery The Game’s Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays). The play will open at Austin Playhouse's new temporary theatre space at Highland Mall.
It's December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, is shot onstage during a performance. While recuperating, he invites his fellow cast-members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. Then it’s up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays.
Ages: Recommended for middle school and up. The show is rated PG for some stage violence.
Videos
![]() |
Beehive: The 60's Musical
TexARTS: Theatre & Academy (2/13 - 3/1) | |
![]() |
Treasure Island
Texas State University (2/10 - 2/15) | |
![]() |
THE LAST MATCH by Anna Ziegler
The Filigree Theatre @ Sterling Stage Austin (2/6 - 2/22)
PHOTOS
| |
|
Reefer Madness The Musical
Austin Community College Drama Department (2/27 - 3/14) | |
|
Swan Lake: International Ballet Stars in Kerrville, TX! On April 09, 2026
The Cailloux Theater (4/9 - 4/9) | |
|
Jack Johnson at Germania Insurance Amphitheater
Germania Insurance Amphitheater (8/29 - 8/29) | |
|
Adam and Chris Carroll in Benefit Concert
Unitarian Universalists of New Braunfels (1/30 - 1/30) | |
|
Urinetown: The Musical
Mary Moody Northen Theatre (2/12 - 2/12) | |
|
Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic
Bastrop Opera House (5/22 - 5/31) | |
|
Murder on the Orient Express
Zach Theater (1/21 - 3/1) | |
| VIEW SHOWS ADD A SHOW | ||