Sep282026
$29–$44Haunted Hotel Homicide
Incendiary Brewing Company
Winston-Salem, NC · 7:00 PM
Open the case file
Interactive Murder Mystery Theatre
You're not the audience.You're a suspect.
Where the stories are seductive… and the truth is dangerous.
J.J. Brown Productions stages live, interactive murder mysteries — two hours of suspects, secrets and bad alibis, in breweries, ballrooms and living rooms across the Carolinas and beyond.
What is this, exactly?
A murder,
and a room full
of liars.
An interactive murder mystery is a play you're standing inside of. There's no stage, no fourth wall and no polite clapping at the end.
You arrive somewhere atmospheric. A body turns up. Everyone in the room — our professional cast, and quite possibly you — has a motive, a secret and a story that doesn't survive close inspection. Over about two hours you mingle, snoop, interrogate, accuse, and finally find out how thoroughly you were fooled.
Some nights you're a detective. Some nights you're wearing a cape and defending your vampire coven's honour. Every night, you leave with a story that's yours.
- ~2 hrs
- Of mystery, start to reveal
- 36 shows
- Photographed in our 2024 season alone
- 30–150
- Guests per private booking
Now Booking
Upcoming live cases
The Experience
How an evening unfolds
No rehearsal required, no improv training, no humiliating volunteer moment. Just curiosity and a willingness to accuse a stranger of murder.
- 01
Check in
Arrive, get your bearings, get a drink. You'll be handed a character, a secret, or a stack of clues — depending on the case.
- 02
Meet the suspects
The room fills with people who are all lying about something. Some are our cast. Some are the person who sat next to you.
- 03
Investigate
Work the room. Trade information, hoard information, misuse information. Our Murder Girl Mystery Files™ keep your notes honest.
- 04
Interrogate
Corner a suspect. Poke the alibi. Watch the story change slightly the second time they tell it.
- 05
Accuse
Commit to a name in writing. No hedging. The Top Detective contest rewards whoever got there first and cleanest.
- 06
The reveal
We show you exactly how you were played — and you spend the drive home rewriting the whole evening in your head.
Murder Girl Podcast
Suspects Welcome
Our own show. Authors, performers, small-town legends and the occasional accomplice — plus behind-the-scenes footage from productions you'll wish you'd been at.
24 episodes and clips, all free to watch.
Private Events
Bring the body to your venue
Breweries, ballrooms, corporate rooms, retirement communities, graduation parties, birthdays that needed a plot twist. We've staged mysteries in all of them. Choose a guest-driven Interactive Mystery, or bring in our professional cast.
$600
Starting price · up to 30 guests
2 hrs
Every package, start to finish
The Gallery
Evidence from past crimes
Every photograph below is from a real J.J. Brown Productions show. Real guests, real costumes, real accusations.
Your move, detective
Someone in the room
did it.
Buy a ticket to a public case, or hand us your guest list and let us ruin an otherwise perfectly pleasant evening.