REVIEW – Darkly Humorous “Deathtrap” a Fun Twisted Tale

Stage West kicks off their new season with the 1978 Ira Levine murder mystery Deathtrap. The longest running comedy-thriller in Broadway history, the Tony nominated show was adapted into a film starring the late Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine in 1982.
Broadway Myster writer Sidney Bruhl (Ashley Wright) is struggling after a series of flops. He receives a script from Clifford Anderson (Justin Stadnyk), a student in a seminar he has been teaching, that seems like a surefire hit. Sydney and his wife Myra...