Deathtrap Reviews

Stage and Cinema - Recommended

"...Sometimes uncontrollable forces work in your favor. How fortunate then for MadKap productions that on the opening night of their production of Ira Levin's Deathtrap, Chicago was plunged with little warning into its first winter storm of the season, with sub-zero temperatures, gale-force winds, and heavy snow. In other words, the perfect weather for you to be indoors, warm and dry, and snuggled up with a murder mystery. Had the tiny concession stand at the Skokie Theatre sold hot coffee or cocoa, I would have never left."

Around The Town Chicago - Highly Recommended

"...Fine acting and directing are the hallmark of MadKap Productions' revival of this highly original play. For starters, Michael Lomenick is a tour de force. As Sidney Bruhl, he makes for a convincing playwright and professor of drama and holds the show together as its protagonist. Jeanne Dwan as his wife Myra Bruhl is willing to go along with his schemes and whims but only so far: She's basically a moral person at heart, and you begin to wonder why she puts up with a man who likes writing thrillers and murder mysteries and who hangs all sorts of weaponry on the walls of his home office."

Chicago Theater and Arts - Highly Recommended

"...Ira Levin’s, circa 1978, now classic DEATHTRAP by Madkap Productions in Skokie, will ensnare you in a web of illusion and deceit with enough humor to take the edge off the murderous treachery taking place before your eyes."