About the Show

A queer-forward psychological thriller adapted by Gordon Greenberg and directed by Scott Elliott.

Garrett Stern and Nate Singer are two Princeton graduate students who commit a murder in their Turtle Bay apartment and store the body inside a trunk. They proceed to host a dinner party on top of the trunk, turning the evening into a game of cat and mouse as Garrett manipulates Nate while distracting their guests from uncovering the truth. The story is based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case and serves as a new adaptation of the original stage play that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's film.

The production is adapted by Gordon Greenberg (Heart of Rock and Roll, Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors) and directed by Scott Elliott (Gutenberg! The Musical!, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), Artistic Director of The New Group.

Critic Reviews (6)

"Gordon Greenberg has updated Patrick Hamilton's famous thriller to 1957 with a new emphasis on the protagonists' gayness and Jewishness."
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Hitchcock this is not....far more explicitly homoerotic and bluntly violent
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A spellbinding revisal of Hitchcock’s film and the play; homoerotic flourishes abound.
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Suspense is nil, subtlety is absent, and the reason we should be horrified has been mollified by rationalization. Greenberg has taken his Rope out of its closet only to bury it in a big wooden chest. As the saying goes, give someone enough rope . . .
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Veteran TV twinks Cameron Monaghan and Corey Fogelmanis star in a queerer, bloodier update of Hitchcock’s thriller whose tension keeps going slack. ★★☆☆☆
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Gordon Greenberg’s adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s 1929 thriller-killer misses the mark.
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