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Article: Wait Until Dark. (Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York, New York)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- April 13, 1998
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Some matters remain beyond human comprehension. No one, for example, has ever directly observed black holes--collapsed stars so dense that they swallow their own light. Luckily, astrophysicists may now flock to Broadway, where they can at last witness a black hole. It's called, appropriately, Wait Until Dark, an event so dense with badness that it swallows its own cast.
Even more incomprehensible is why this 1966 aberration has been re-aberrated. Frederick Knott's play about a blind girl terrorized by a creep has long been notorious as a thriller that waits until the last five minutes to produce a thrill. Audiences who made the original production with Lee ...