Off-Bway's Perfect Crime to Celebrate 20th Anniversary

Warren Manzi's Perfect Crime, now playing the Snapple Theatre Center (located at 1627 Broadway at 50th St.), will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary.  The play recently played its 8,142nd performance.

After the April 18th performance, there will be an anniversary party to celebrate the show's 20 years Off-Broadway.

Perfect Crime, which opened on April 18th, 1987 at the Courtyard Playhouse Off-Broadway, has starred Cathrine Russell for all but four of its performances.  Russell has been with the show for all 20 years, and is also its general manager.  The production currently features David Butler, Richard Shoberg, Philip Hoffman, and Patrick Robustelli, as well.

The show is New York's longest-running non-musical play ever, either on or off Broadway.

According to show notes, Perfect Crime "goes well beyond traditional mystery play. It is a sexy, compelling thriller, with well-timed surprises and laughs that relieve a growing dramatic tension.   The main character is a Harvard-educated psychiatrist accused of bumping off her wealthy British husband. The play is set in an affluent Connecticut town where this suspected murderess conducts her practice out of her secluded mansion. The handsome detective assigned to the case  must overcome his own love-interest in the wife as he seeks to discover who murdered the husband, if indeed he was murdered at all."

Visit www.perfect-crime.com for tickets and more information.