24 Jul – 15 Aug 2026
Directed by Jason Spindlow
By Arrangement with Renaissance Literary/Talent Agency, Inc. on behalf of “Lyz Kurnitz-Thurlow & The Leland Hayward Royalty Pool”
Adapted by Harry Kurnitz from the play “L’Idiote” by Marcel Achard
One body, one bullet, and a dozen scandalous secrets.
When a crime of passion is committed in a respectable Parisian household, newly appointed Chief Magistrate Paul Sevigne takes on what should be an open and shut case. After all, the accused – good natured and guileless maid Josefa – has been found unconscious, nude, clutching a gun, with her lover dead beside her.
Yet, armed with nothing but gut instinct and a knack for sniffing out buried truths, Sevigne uncovers a tangled web of mistresses, motives, and mistaken identities that puts his new position in jeopardy.
With razor-sharp dialogue and a cast of delightfully flawed characters, expect shocking twists and a murder investigation that dances on the edge of absurdity.
A Shot in the Dark is a riotous whodunit that flips the murder mystery genre on its head and was the inspiration for Peter Sellers’ 1964 film of the same name.