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.