Rick Hamilton News

In 1929, PatRick Hamilton wrote the groundbreaking play Rope, in which two undergraduates plot and execute the murder of an innocent classmate as an exercise in intellectual superiority. The killers place the body in a chest and then host a cocktail party, serving food and drink from the make-shift coffin to guests, including the boy’s family. As the evening progresses and liquor is poured, the young killers become increasingly bold until the action spirals out of control toward its unsettling yet satisfying finale. This highly physical, energetic production transplants the play from London to New York, just before the crash of ‘29, providing a Jazz Age backdrop for Hamilton’s gripping thriller. (more...)

In 1929, PatRick Hamilton wrote the groundbreaking play Rope, in which two undergraduates plot and execute the murder of an innocent classmate as an exercise in intellectual superiority. The killers place the body in a chest and then host a cocktail party, serving food and drink from the make-shift coffin to guests, including the boy’s family. As the evening progresses and liquor is poured, the young killers become increasingly bold until the action spirals out of control toward its unsettling yet satisfying finale. This highly physical, energetic production transplants the play from London to New York, just before the crash of ‘29, providing a Jazz Age backdrop for Hamilton’s gripping thriller. (more...)

SARTA has announced upcoming auditions and current productions. They are also looking for a few more Volunteers. (more...)

SARTA has announced upcoming auditions and current productions. They are also looking for a few more Volunteers. (more...)

The Gallery Players is throwing The Gallery Party! Join Brooklyn's award-winning Off-Off Broadway Theatre in an evening that celebrates 45 seasons and features performances by The Gallery Players' finest alumni, an open bar, light fare courtesy of some of Park Slope's best restaurants, raffle prizes and giveaways. (more...)

The Gallery Players is throwing The Gallery Party! Join Brooklyn's award-winning Off-Off Broadway Theatre in an evening that celebrates 45 seasons and features performances by The Gallery Players' finest alumni, an open bar, light fare courtesy of some of Park Slope's best restaurants, raffle prizes and giveaways. (more...)

The story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb has been written about and filmed on a few separate occasions, most notably with Alfred Hitchcock's version of PatRick Hamilton's play, Rope (shot in single film reel length takes as an added novelty), and with Meyer Levin's more fictionalized account Compulsion, which was also made into a noteworthy movie. Of course, there were many others that co-opted the ideas present in their terrible tale, but playwright/composer Stephen Dolginoff's THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD AND LOEB STORY, just may be the most potent, presenting their saga as a "pocket musical" that's harrowing, haunting and disturbing all at the same time. (more...)

Award-winning Broadway actor Brian Murray has joined the cast of “Angel Street,” a Script in Hand reading of the Victorian suspense thriller upon which the classic film “Gaslight” is based, at Westport Country Playhouse on Monday, March 14, 7 p.m. Murray will play the role of Inspector Rough. (more...)

Award-winning Broadway actor Brian Murray has joined the cast of “Angel Street,” a Script in Hand reading of the Victorian suspense thriller upon which the classic film “Gaslight” is based, at Westport Country Playhouse on Monday, March 14, 7 p.m. Murray will play the role of Inspector Rough. (more...)

Westport Country Playhouse will present a reading of the thrilling game of cat and mouse, “Angel Street,” upon which the classic film “Gaslight” is based, as part of Westport Country Playhouse’s popular Script in Hand Series, on Monday, March 14, 7 p.m. (more...)

Captivating Psychological Thriller "Angel Street' ("Gaslight") plays Westport Community Theatre November 26 - December 12 (more...)

"Angel Street" (also known as "Gaslight") by PatRick Hamilton is one of the all-time great thrillers, a night of theatrical magic that captivates the audience from start to finish and keeps you guessing right up to the end. If you've never seen the play that the famous 1940s movie "Gaslight" was based on, this is the production to see! You may know "who" does it... but what keeps you guessing in this story of unfolding psychological terror are the whys and hows. (more...)

Captivating Psychological Thriller "Angel Street' ("Gaslight") plays Westport Community Theatre November 26 - December 12 (more...)

Captivating Psychological Thriller "Angel Street' ("Gaslight") plays Westport Community Theatre November 26 - December 12 (more...)

Captivating Psychological Thriller "Angel Street' ("Gaslight") plays Westport Community Theatre November 26 - December 12 (more...)

Captivating Psychological Thriller "Angel Street' ("Gaslight") plays Westport Community Theatre November 26 - December 12 (more...)

Set in 1880's fog-bound London, Gaslight is an edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller that tells the story of the Manninghams of Angel Street. Under the guise of kindliness, the handsome Mr. Manningham is torturing his wife into insanity in hopes of ultimately disposing of her and getting away with murder. It is the quintessential Victorian thriller is filled with intrigue, treachery and good, old-fashioned melodramatic fun. (more...)

Set in 1880's fog-bound London, Gaslight is an edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller that tells the story of the Manninghams of Angel Street. Under the guise of kindliness, the handsome Mr. Manningham is torturing his wife into insanity in hopes of ultimately disposing of her and getting away with murder. It is the quintessential Victorian thriller is filled with intrigue, treachery and good, old-fashioned melodramatic fun. (more...)

Set in 1880's fog-bound London, Gaslight is an edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller that tells the story of the Manninghams of Angel Street. Under the guise of kindliness, the handsome Mr. Manningham is torturing his wife into insanity in hopes of ultimately disposing of her and getting away with murder. It is the quintessential Victorian thriller is filled with intrigue, treachery and good, old-fashioned melodramatic fun. (more...)

Captivating Psychological Thriller "Angel Street' ("Gaslight") plays Westport Community Theatre November 26 - December 12 (more...)