Stage Fright (2017)

Plotzle Expert · Puzzle #12 · March 6, 2026 · Thriller / TV Movie

Six plot descriptions for Stage Fright (2017). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A theater critic paralyzed by childhood trauma attends a controversial production that recreates her repressed memories onstage as the playwright somehow obtained details she never disclosed to anyone in her adult life.
2. A recently widowed actor accepts a role in his late wife's unfinished screenplay but the production's lead actress begins imitating his wife's mannerisms and private behaviors with disturbing accuracy.
3. A former opera singer agrees to perform again years after a violent incident ended her career, but she faces new threats when she returns to performing that endanger her comeback.
4. Two estranged siblings inherit their mother's acting school and find videotapes revealing she documented her students' private confessions for blackmail purposes over three decades of teaching vulnerable young performers.
5. An investigative journalist arrives in a remote town to report on disappearances at a local theater company and discovers the director has been manipulating cast members through psychological conditioning techniques.
6. A Broadway understudy develops crippling panic attacks after witnessing a fellow performer's suicide and begins experiencing hallucinations of the dead woman during rehearsals that blur into her waking life.