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Deathtrap

Marblehead Little Theatre & Mugford Street Players present

Ira Levin’s

DEATHTRAP

Produced by Greg Mancusi-Ungaro
Directed by John Fogle

Final Weekend!  Four Shows Only!

October 21-23, 2018

Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm
Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00 pm

(Tickets are also available in limited quantities at the Arnould Gallery, Washington Street in Marblehead)

Marblehead Little Theatre (MLT) and Marblehead’s Mugford Street Players (MSP) join forces to present Ira Levin’s Prize classic comedy-thriller DEATHTRAP, opening Friday, October 5th with a 7:30 p.m. performance at the Marblehead Little Theatre, 12 School Street, Marblehead, MA.

Holding the record for the longest-running comedy-thriller in Broadway history, DEATHTRAP was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Play, when it opened in New York in 1978. It received a rave review from New York Times theater critic Walter Kerr, who wrote that it contained “effrontery everywhere and fun straight through.” 

Masterful in its construction, DEATHTRAP is a multilayered play with plot twists and comic turns, garnished with thunder, lightning, unexplained noises, screams, antiquated weapons…even a nosy psychic who intrudes delightfully at the most inopportune times. Broadway playwright Sidney Bruhl has endured an 18–year dry spell and is desperately in need of a hit.  When Clifford, a former student, sends him a first draft of his first play entitled Deathtrap, Bruhl smells money and allows a raft of wicked ideas to invade his brain.  Hilarious skullduggery ensues!

Directed by MSP Artistic Director John Fogle, DEATHTRAP was selected as the ideal October entertainment.  “With the World Capital of Halloween as our next-door neighbor,” Fogle says, “we wanted to address the spooky season without being redundant.  DEATHTRAP has been on our to-do list for years and we’re thrilled to reacquaint local audiences with this classic play.”

Marblehead writer-actor Andrew Dunlop plays Sidney Bruhl, with Carole Weidman of Beverly portraying his wife, Myra, and Johnny Redmond of Arlington playing Clifford. Julie Korzenik of Marblehead as the psychic Helga ten Dorf and Bob Karish of Salem as lawyer Porter Milgrim round out the five-character cast.

Marblehead’s Greg Mancusi-Ungaro produces the production, through special arrangement with Dramatist Play Service, Inc., and also serves as set and lighting designer. Costume designer Elvira Schoenthal, sound designer Thomas Saltsman and stage manager Emily Wallick support him.

DEATHTRAP plays Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 and Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 3:00 through OCTOBER 21 at Marblehead’s Little Theatre, located at 12 School Street in downtown Marblehead. Tickets are available at www.mltlive.com and at Arnould Gallery.  For more information call 781-962-0409.

Past, Plays & Musicals

Kat(i)e & J(aw)hn

Marblehead Little Theater Presents An Original Play by Shari Frost

At the MLT Firehouse March 16-17 & 23-25, 2012

Katie & Jawhn

Written by Shari D Frost  www.sharidfrost.com
Directed by Anne Lucas

A muffin shop under renovation and one week away from grand opening.  An ex-con named John (or is it Jawn, as the locals say?)  A Tulane freshman named Katie (or is it Kate?).  A contractor named Sonny.  And a storm on the way.  F’sure!  (And don’t forget about the music…this is New Orleans, after all!)

“With the rhythms of N’Awlins hanging in the air, Frost brings us hearts full of love and regret. This is one storm I look forward to!” – Kate Snodgrass, Artistic Director, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

K&J show photoPhotos on line at  http://snapdog.smugmug.com/Marblehead-Little-Theatre/Katie-and-Jawhn

Joe Puleo has been photographing all of the plays presented by the Marblehead Little Theatre–starting with Oklahoma.

This is a professional site where you can order high quality prints by a professional lab at reasonable prices. Should you need something specific, please feel free to contact Joe: 978-979-1227, joe@portraitsoflight.com www.portraitsoflight.com

MLT’S KAT(I)E & J(AW)HN & MARBLEHEAD’S MUFFIN SHOP TEAM UP TO SPONSOR A MUFFIN FLAVOR CONTEST

In conjunction with the MLT premiere of Kat(i)e & J(aw)hn, an original play by Marblehead’s own Shari D. Frost set in an under-renovation muffin shop in New Orleans, the Muffin Shop in Marblehead will create a new muffin recipe. From flavor suggestions submitted by you, the Muffin Shop will select a winner for a “premiere” of its own.

Muffin flavor ideas should be e-mailed to info@mltlive.com by Sunday, March 4th. The winner will receive 2 free tickets to Kat(i)e & J(aw)hn.

February 8, 2012 – Casting is set for Kat(i)e & J(aw)hn, an original play by local playwright Shari D. Frost, opening at Marblehead Little Theatre on March 16.

John (aka Jawn) will be played by Chris Clark of Marblehead, a familiar face to local audiences on the North Shore, who was last seen in MLT’s Reindeer Monologues.

Katie (or is it Kate?) will be played by Katelyn Beaudoin of Salem, recently seen in the role of Mimi in Salem State University’s Rent.

Sonny will be played by Michael Siering of Salem, who has acted on stage, film and television, and was previously a proud member of Wharf Rat Productions and Hit and Run Theatre.

Barbara will be played by Meghan Holtz, also of Salem, and fresh off her run as Blanche in Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs.

The role of the Homeless Street Musician will be played by popular jazz guitarist and Swampscott resident Vernon Dinnall.