“
Getting Away with Murder
is more fun than a roomful of Agatha Christies.” —Daily News
Longtime musical theatre collaborators Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, who together created the landmark musical
Company
, have joined forces again to create a compellingly original thriller—Mr. Sondheim’s first nonmusical play.
unfolds on a stormy night on Manhattan’s Upper West Side at a group therapy session. The patients arrive only to find that their faithful, Pulitzer Prize-winning psychiatrist is missing. What unfolds is a classic whodunit in the tradition of
Sleuth
and
The Mousetrap
that harkens back to Sondheim’s screenplay collaboration with Anthony Perkins on the cult film
The Last of Sheila
.
, originally produced at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, was produced on Broadway in 1996.