Dial M for Murder
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the Original by Frederick Knott
City Lights Theater Company
Drew Benjamin Jones,
Maria Marquis (center) &
Gwynnevere Cristobal (front)
Packed with edge-of-your-seat suspense, more twists and turns than San Francisco’s Lombard Street, and tons of intriguing clues scattered throughout, Dial M for Murder for over seventy years has been an audience favorite on stage, TV, and film. Combining sophisticated wit and noir intrigue, Frederick Knott’s 1952 original stage play became a Hitchcock film classic in 1954 and is now once again one of the country’s most popular, live theatre offerings in a 2022-premiering update by Jeffrey Hatcher. Two women in a secret love affair — one married to a man — greatly enhance the emotional, psychological, and cultural impacts of this tale of jealousy, deception, and murder. City Lights Theatre Company kills it opening Hatcher’s adapted Dial M for Murder in a production boasting knock-’em-dead direction, casting, and creative elements resulting in a sure-fire winner.
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Rating: 5 E
A Theatre Eddys Best Bet Production
Dial M for Murder continues through April 12, 2026, in a two-hour, thirty-minute (one intermission) production by City Lights Theater Company, 529 S. 2nd Street, San Jose. Tickets are available online at www.cltc.org .
Photo Credit: Christian Pizzirani
