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August 2025
MMT Presents – The Case of the Missing Clown Nose!
Written and Directed by John Ruoff When Jocko the Clown goes missing, Dick Doubleheart (Dustin Trabert) must help decipher the kooky clues to this circus of a case! With special guest Dustin Trabert, and the talents of our MMT Players Rob Bowker, Hilary Heinz Luthi, Chris Mathews, Bridgette Moody, Dean T. Moody, John Ruoff Live SFX by Alice Watson Featuring Springer's Spotlight with Rick Springer!
Find out more »September 2025
MMT Presents: The Case of the Missing Gigolo!
Directed by John Ruoff Written by Jordan Henderson and John Ruoff Brothers Stew and Lucky Pidd (Jordan Henderson and Brandon Brown) run a private eye school in a small town in Maine. When a real client Broadway Star and femme fatale hires them to find out why there is a dead mime in her dressing room of her out of town try out-a one woman murder mystery show, a world of diamond smugglers,a phony French singer, the nuttiest play and cast …
Find out more »October 2025
MMT Presents: The Case of the Missing Halloweenie Dog!
Written and directed by John Ruoff Celebrate the spooky season with a kooky mystery! When a beautiful French Poodle hires mutt Sam Spaded (Chris Mathews) Private Eye-to attend a seance her aunt Madam Curree is conducting on Halloween to clear all suspicions regarding her late husband's suspicious death, a weird vampire, a four legged Frankentsein, a mind reader, a domestic couple of nitwits, a snooty English Terrier butler, a Scottish Terrier maid, a stoner doberman, and a witch with a degree from Wichita State…
Find out more »November 2025
MMT 15th Annual Women’s Show: The Case of the Missing Femme Fatal!
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOHN RUOFF When a trio of nutty sisters hire private eye Phyllis Marlowe to locate a fourth sister who embezzled a swimming pool, a rare bottle of wine, an assassination with a snake, a dubious Russian matriarch, and a telethon to sure kleptomania all add up to terror...suspense... and mystery. STARRING MARY BAYLEY, LEAH CARRELL, SUSAN CONNORS, LINDSEY DABEK, MAUREEN HAWKINS, HILARY HEINZ LUTHI, GAIL WAMBA
Find out more »February 2026
MMT LIVE AT MVCAC Presents: The Case of the Missing Heart!
MMT is back at it for 2026 with this season opener graciously supported by our friends at Maple Valley Creative Arts Center. Come out for the fun with this new original Midnight Mystery Theater show by John Ruoff, starring Leah Carrell! THE CASE OF THE MISSING HEART Written and directed by John Ruoff When Angst Bachstabber (Leah Carrell), CEO of Hellmark, a greeting card company which specializes in breakups, decides to hold a soiree on her yacht to publically fire…
Find out more »March 2026
MMT Presents: The Case of the Missing Preserves!
Written and directed by John Ruoff When the fastest spatula in the west-Grits Pansit (Dean T. Moody) is chosen to judge the annual preserves contest, the two feuding sisters Helma and Messie (Hilary Luthi Heinz and Bridgette Moody) will stop at nothing to win the prize and all right in the middle of a free range chicken war on the seafood spread-The Prawndarosa- as they try to fence out the chicken herds of trail boss Dil Flavor (Ryan Asbert) The Prawndarosa, as a thrilling…
Find out more »April 2026
MMT Presents: The Case of the Missing Idol!
Written and directed by JOHN RUOFF Detective Dana Dripstick (Ryan Asbert) gets called in to investigate a death threat on an old time silent movie star matinee idol (Dean T. Moody) starring in his 900th swashbuckling picture. When the Idol is getting replaced by a younger man, Detective Dripstick, posing as a dance choreographer in The Sound of Murder, is up to his dance belt in mayhem and murder! Join the nut jobs in Hollywood for laugh, suspense, terror...and the other one. RYAN ASBERT, ROB BOWKER,…
Find out more »May 2026
MMT Presents: The Case of the Missing Mistress!
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOHN RUOFF When Lanny Lavender (Jeff Fors) gets fired as a G-man after 45 minutes during the roaring twenties-he decides to write a book about his wealthy neighbor-a bootlegger named The Adequate Ratsby (Rob Bowker) and gets caught up in a world of a gin-soaked love triangle and…you guessed it-murder! Join the MMT gang as we journey back to the time of bath tub gin, flappers, and guys in spats. SPECIAL GUEST - JEFF FORS With…
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