DEATHTRAP
By Ira Levin
WHEN: October 4- 20; Thursdays at 7:30 PM, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. There are 2 PM matinées Wednesdays October 9th and 16th and for the Preview Performance on Friday, October 4th at 2 PM.
WHERE: The David and Carol Lackland Center at Centenary College, 715 Grand Ave., Hackettstown
TICKETS: $25 to $27.50 with discounts for students and seniors. Every Thursday night is “Family Night,” which offers a 2-for-1 rush ticket price when purchased at the door.
Tickets may be purchased online at www.centenarystageco.org<http://www.centenarystageco.org/>, at the CSC Box Office located in the David and Carol Lackland Center , or by calling 908.979.0900. The Box Office is open 1-5 PM Monday through Friday, and 2 hours prior to performance times. (Above: Maria Brodeur and Carl Wallnau)
"Two-thirds a thriller and one-third a devilishly clever comedy …Suspend your disbelief and be delighted. Scream a little. It's good for you." —Cue Magazine
One of the most popular successes in Broadway history, a theatrical triumph with gasp-inducing thrills and spontaneous laughter, Ira Levin’s Deathtrap is a chilling murder-mystery running at The Centenary Stage Company.
Deathtrap is a play within a play following the struggles of Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers battling a crippling dry spell. Sidney has experienced a string of flops and a shortage of funds when suddenly help seems to come from out of nowhere. He receives a script in the mail from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college—a thriller Sidney recognizes as a potential Broadway hit. What happens next is the stuff of Deathtrap. Audiences will be held spellbound to the very end.
Talkinbroadway.com describes Deathtrap as “… an enormously appealing play that combines comedy with mystery, ridiculing the conventions of the thriller while reveling in them.”
Deathtrap is sponsored by Bea McNally’s Irish Pub, Old Souk Trading Company, and Heath Village Retirement Community.
The 2013-14 season of performing arts events at the Centenary Stage Company is made possible through the generous support of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the NJ State Council on the Arts, and CSC sponsors, including Premier Sponsor Heath Village Retirement Community, Silver Sponsors Hackettstown Regional Medical Center, The Holiday Inn in Budd Lake, and Fulton Bank, Bronze Sponsors The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation and Wells Fargo Bank, and Centenary Stage Company members and supporters.
