Vera Caspary News

Tacoma Little Theatre brings Vera Caspary and George Sklar's noir classic, Laura, to life as part of its 100th Anniversary Season. This production is directed by Randy Clark and based upon the novel by Vera Caspary.

Tacoma Little Theatre brings Vera Caspary and George Sklar's noir classic, Laura, to life as part of its 100th Anniversary Season. This production is directed by Randy Clark and based upon the novel by Vera Caspary.

Tacoma Little Theatre brings Vera Caspary and George Sklar's noir classic, Laura, to life as part of its 100th Anniversary Season. This production is directed by Randy Clark and based upon the novel by Vera Caspary.

Recent IRNE Award-winner Sarah Gazdowicz directs LAURA with a steady hand, garnering especially strong performances from Alexander Cook as Detective Mark McPherson and Steven Barkhimer as Waldo Lydecker. Jasmine Rush coolly plays the title character, an attractive career woman whose portrait infatuates the detective investigating her murder.

Everyone is a suspect in the murder of Laura Hunt, an irresistibly attractive business woman trying to make her way in the world of advertising. A hard-boiled detective on the case becomes infatuated with her portrait after reading her memoirs, but her closest friends don't trust him. The twists and turns of this film noir classic, adapted for the stage, will have you guessing whodunit.

Everyone is a suspect in the murder of Laura Hunt, an irresistibly attractive business woman trying to make her way in the world of advertising. A hard-boiled detective on the case becomes infatuated with her portrait after reading her memoirs, but her closest friends don't trust him. The twists and turns of this film noir classic, adapted for the stage, will have you guessing whodunit.

The latest benefit to readers in the stage of enlightenment exemplified by the Library of America's expanding coverage of post-war pulp is the new two-volume collection devoted to Women Crime Writers, the first of which covers the 1940s

Stoneham Theatre is pleased to announce its Mainstage programming for Season 16. This year will showcase some exceptional not-seen-enough Broadway musicals that will have you laughing and toe-tapping, a stylish murder mystery whodunit classic, and a brand-new musical about lobstering with a book by Producing Artistic Director Weylin Symes and music and lyrics by Boston favorite Steven Barkhimer.

Possum Point Players brings the brilliant murder mystery 'LAURA' to their Possum Hall stage beginning tonight, Friday, January 31, 2014. Written by Vera Caspary and George Sklar, and based on the novel by Vera Caspary, John Marino of Lewes directs an ensemble cast.

Possum Point Players brings the thriller Laura to their Possum Hall stage beginning Friday, January 31, 2014. Vera Caspary, Laura's novelist, playwright and screenwriter, wrote thrillers -- but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller. Typically, thrillers focus on plot development as opposed to character development. They focus on an action arc as opposed to a psychological arc. But a successful psychological thriller does both, more or less equally. The suspense comes from the human interaction between characters who prey on each other's thoughts, trying either to confuse, destroy, or deceive.

Possum Point Players brings the brilliant murder mystery "LAURA" to their Possum Hall stage beginning Friday, January 31, 2014. The story of LAURA is best known from the 1944 American film noir version directed by Otto Preminger. It stared Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt was based on the 1943 novel of the same title by Vera Caspary. Joseph LaShelle won the Academy Award for Best Black and White Cinematography for this film.

Possum Point Players brings the brilliant murder mystery "LAURA" to their Possum Hall stage beginning Friday, January 31, 2014. Written by Vera Caspary and George Sklar, and based on the novel by Vera Caspary, John Marino of Lewes directs an ensemble cast.

Spark Theater's 2013-2014 season launches today, July 26 with 'Laura' by Vera Caspary and George Skylar.

Spark Theater's 2013-2014 season launches on July 26 with 'Laura' by Vera Caspary and George Skylar.

Come to the Cockpit in Court production of "Laura," based on a novel by Vera Caspary, with play by Caspary and George Sklar. Performances will be held 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays, tonight, July 27 through August 5 in the Cabaret at CCBC Essex.

Come to the Cockpit in Court production of "Laura," based on a novel by Vera Caspary, with play by Caspary and George Sklar. Performances will be held 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays, July 27 through August 5 in the Cabaret at CCBC Essex.

'Laura' (1944), the tale of a police detective who falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating, will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' series 'Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood's Dark Side' on Monday, May 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Tin Roof Theatre Productions presents 'Laura' by Vera Caspary from January 14 to 17.