Theater Review: Firehouse’s “Wait Until Dark” needs some tweaks to find suspense.
by Rich Griset
There are few things more entrancing than witnessing a good live thriller in the theater: You can't press pause, you can't escape and you have no control over what's about to happen. It's this claustrophobic thrill that's made Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" the longest-running play in history, and it's what Firehouse Theatre Project aims to capture with Frederick Knott's "Wait Until Dark."
Like a Hitchcock film, the play revolves around a MacGuffin, in this case a doll filled with high-grade heroin.…[ Read more ]