Sherlock Holmes returns to Victorian Players stage

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The Victorian Players will present “Sherlock Holmes and the West End Horror” for three weekends, beginning Friday.

The play pits the famous sleuth against a litany of great literary figures as he hunts a murderer who took the life of a theater critic.

After the slaying, the famed playwright George Bernard Shaw convinces Holmes to take the case. But as the investigation continues, Holmes continuously runs afoul of contemporary writers, including Oscar Wilde, Gilbert and Sullivan, Henry Irving, Bram Stoker and H.G. Welles.

A few years ago, the Victorian presented “Sherlock Holmes: the Final Adventure,” starring Dave Wolford as Homes. Wolford will return to again play Holmes in “West End Horror.”

Watson, Holmes’ sidekick, will be played by Tim McGinley. Rounding out the cast are Jenna Cintavey, Phillip Clark, C. Richard Haldi, Bill Finley, Sheridan Sullivan, Theresa Leonard, Yvonne Andrews, Vinnie Dragos, Jesse Pomerico, Byron Armour, Dan Schiller, Hunter Thomas, Brandi Hughes, Jacob Nash, Mike Blanchard, Grace Offerdahl, Johnny Herbert and Davin Stilson.

“West End Horror” was written by Anthony Dodge and Marcia Milgrom Dodge.