Word: deathtrap
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...late '40s. First role: an off-stage scream in a summer production at the then-legit Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, Mass. Began teaching drama at the Juilliard School, 1968. Has performed in film, on television, on radio (CBS Mystery Theatre), but mostly on Broadway. Currently stars in Ira Levin's Deathtrap. Has no idea what her next role will be, reinforcing comment in book that she has never consciously planned her career...
...Deathtrap. Like a boa constrictor, this murder mystery coils lethally around its characters. Marinating menace with a lunatic humor, John Wood, a superb actor, can make a playgoer die laughing...
...COURSE YOU SHOULD get in to Boston to see Tribute--its smash-hit success on Broadway is a foregone conclusion (and if gaseous schlock like Deathtrap, which opened here in January, can be a hit, well--anything goes). Tribute must strike very close to the bones of some of its contributors: Slade, still struggling to shake off Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, and Lemmon, a graduate of the Hasty Pudding chorus line and academic probation at Harvard. These men, at some point in their lives, decided to stop clowning around and get serious. Both are at a point where...
...murder-mystery thriller is a theatrically endangered species. Seasons go by without one, and there have been seven lean years since the last dandy scalp tingler, Sleuth. Deathtrap is a congenial successor-literate, amusing, booby-trapped with scarifying surprises, a brimming tumbler of arsenic and Schweppes...
...theater as a metaphor for murder is the ironic undertheme of the play. It stands out in bold relief on Wood's face. Well, in popular U.S. mythology, are not the playwrights the victims and the critics the assassins? If you care to assassinate yourself with laughter, try Deathtrap...