John Wood, Marian Seldes and Victor Garber in "Deathtrap" (1978).August 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. On this date forty-four years ago, Ira Levin's Deathtrap played its 1,445th performance on Broadway, breaking the previously held record of Joseph Kesserling's Arsenic and Old Lace as the longest running thriller. It can probably be debated whether Kesserling's comedy is really a thriller,…
