Deathtrap - Neil Simon Festival

Deathtrap, by Ira Levin, is a suspenseful comedy and one of the great popular successes in Broadway history.  It is a diabolically clever, wildly popular comedy-thriller!  It received four Tony Awards, including Best Play.  It was first shown on Broadway in 1979 and ran for four years. In 1982 the play was adapted into a film under the same name.

Sidney Bruhl, the main character, is a successful writer of Broadway thrillers and is struggling to overcome a dry spell that has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds.  One day he receives a script from a student author, a thriller that he recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway smash.  Sidney\’s plan, devised with his wife\’s help, is to offer collaboration to the student for credit. Or is it?  Deathtrap provides twists and turns of devilish cleverness and offers hilarious shocks in such abundance that audiences will be spellbound until the very last moment.