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Cold feet: this weekend is the last chance to catch Deathtrap, Ira Levin's new comedy suspense thriller, before it heads for New York. Tonight through Saturday at 8, Saturday at 2, at the Wilbur Theatre...
Lord Laurence Olivier in Ira Levin's "The Boys From Brazil...
...Ira Weiss...
...wanted to write a classic Broadway thriller but didn't have any good ideas. Why not write a play about a once-successful but now faded dramatist who wants to write a classic Broadway thriller but doesn't have any good ideas? That's precisely what the protagonist in Ira Levin's new thriller, Deathtrap, decides to do and, not so coincidentally, it is what Ira Levin, a successful novelist (Rosemary's Baby, The Boys from Brazil) who hasn't had a Broadway hit in over a decade has done. Deathtrap economically combines two lastditch themes: the playwright-trying...
...Friday, Jan. 27, the day after Deathtrap had opened at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston. Moore had spent the afternoon with the playwright, Ira Levin, and the cast, making cuts in the script and rehearsing the changes. At 5 p.m. the rehearsal broke up; the Boston Globe arrived to talk to John Wood, the show's lead, who had stopped in Boston last year with Tom Stoppard's Travesties, and we settled down in the auditorium with a relaxed, casual Robert Moore. A few stagehands milled about the stage...