Getting Away With Murder by Stephen Sondheim

Getting Away With Murder by Stephen Sondheim

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. Getting Away with Murder 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. Getting Away with Murder, originally produced at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, was produced on Broadway in 1996.

For theater, film, and television, Stephen Sondheim has written award-winning music and lyrics. He also wrote the screenplay for The Last of Sheila and the play Getting Away with Murder. Sondheim is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America's board of directors, having previously served as its president from 1973 to 1981. He currently resides in New York City.