History Theatre / WaitUntilDark

Originally produced on Broadway in 1966, it was adapted the following year into a film directed by Creator/TerenceYoung and starring Creator/AudreyHepburn as Susy and Creator/AlanArkin as Roat. The play was revived on Broadway in 1998 with a cast that included Creator/MarisaTomei as Susy, Creator/QuentinTarantino as Roat, and Creator/StephenLang as Mike Talman. Another revival in October of 2013 at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles moved the setting back to 1944, giving it a distinctly FilmNoir flavor among other changes. Another film adaptation, called ''Penthouse North'' and starring Creator/MichelleMonaghan and Creator/MichaelKeaton, was released in 2014.

* AxCrazy: Roat.

* BrattyHalfPint: Gloria. She gets better.

* DarknessEqualsDeath: Beautifully subverted. Susy knocks out all the lights to give herself the advantage over her attacker.
** Too bad she forgot one. [[spoiler: You probably would, too. In the refrigerator. She thankfully does manage to unplug it at the last second, and darkness equals her attacker's death instead of her own.]]
* DisabilitySuperpower: [[spoiler: Lampshaded, really. Roat wears two elaborate disguises to pretend he is two different people, for no apparent reason, other than that's what he does when he pulls the con on other people, or maybe just for the benefit of the girl who also lives in the building. Since Susy can't see the disguises, there's really no point in wearing them, and in fact, she recognizes that he is the same person, because she isn't distracted by them.]]

* TheMark: Susy.

* PunchClockVillain: Talman and Carlino.

* WouldHitAGirl: Roat, and he does much more than hit her in the climax.

* ConMan: Roat, Talman, and Carlino

** Susy's ears are also sharp enough for her to pick up that Carlino is "dusting" her apartment for no particular reason (he's really wiping prints), and to notice that her visitors keep fidding with the blinds even though it's nighttime (they're signaling to each other).

* EvilCripple: Roat, in the 2013 version.

** "Trick" is putting it mildly, considering that he murders Talman an Carlino's old friend Lisa, and then blackmails them into helping him.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When Roat figures the other two con men are no longer needed, and convinced (rightly) that his "partners" are turning on him...

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Mike and Carlino don't have anything against Susy and honestly seem to want to avoid hurting her--they're just in it for a quick buck.

* PervertedSniffing: In the film, Roat grabs some laundry from the dryer to clean his sunglasses with while monologuing. When he realizes he's grabbed some of Susy's lingerie, he brings it to his nose for a whiff. From the look on his face, he doesn't seem interested in what detergent she uses.

* TheGhost: Lisa in the play. The closest we ever get is an offstage but frequently discussed dead body, hidden in Susy and Sam's closet. Averted in the film, where she appears onscreen, and in the 1998 Broadway revival, where the body was shown onstage.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Initially, Harry Roat feigns pleasantries with his marks.

* TheGhost: Lisa in the play. The closest we ever get is an offstage but frequently discussed dead body, hidden in Susy and Sam's closet. Averted in the film, where she appears onscreen, and in the 1998 Broadway revival, where the body is shown onstage.

* ProtectThisHouse: A group of burglars resort to increasingly desperate means to get a poor blind housewife to give up a heroin-laden doll that was mistakenly delivered to her house.

* TheGhost: Lisa in the play. The closest we ever get is an offstage but frequently discussed dead body, hidden in Susy and Sam's closet. Averted in the film, where she appears onscreen.

* SkeletonKeycard: In the film version, Carlino seems to be slipped a piece of plastic between door and lock to open the apartment door from the outside.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Roat.

* TheSpook: Roat (which is not his real name).

Originally produced on Broadway in 1966, it was adapted the following year into a film directed by Terence Young and starring Creator/AudreyHepburn as Susy and Creator/AlanArkin as Roat. The play was revived on Broadway in 1998 with a cast that included Creator/MarisaTomei as Susy, Creator/QuentinTarantino as Roat, and Creator/StephenLang as Mike Talman. Another revival in October of 2013 at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles moved the setting back to 1944, giving it a distinctly FilmNoir flavor among other changes. Another film adaptation, called ''Penthouse North'' and starring Creator/MichelleMonaghan and Creator/MichaelKeaton, was released in 2014.

* SmugglingWithDolls: The Macguffin that kicks off the whole plot is this when the woman uses a doll for smuggling heroin through an airport.

Originally produced on Broadway in 1966, it was adapted the following year into a film directed by Terence Young and starring Creator/AudreyHepburn as Susy and Creator/AlanArkin as Roat. The play was revived on Broadway in 1998 with a cast that included Creator/MarisaTomei as Susy, Creator/QuentinTarantino as Roat, and Creator/StephenLang as Mike Talman. Another revival in October of 2013 at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles moved the setting back to 1944, giving it a distinctly FilmNoir flavor among other changes. Another film adaptation, called ''Penthouse North'' and starring Michelle Monaghan and Creator/MichaelKeaton, was released in 2014.

Originally produced on Broadway in 1966, it was adapted the following year into a film directed by Terence Young and starring Creator/AudreyHepburn as Susy and Creator/AlanArkin as Roat. The play was revived on Broadway in 1998 with a cast that included Marisa Tomei as Susy, Creator/QuentinTarantino as Roat, and Stephen Lang of Film/{{Avatar}} fame as Mike Talman. Another revival in October of 2013 at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles moved the setting back to 1944, giving it a distinctly FilmNoir flavor among other changes. Another film adaptation, called ''Penthouse North'' and starring Michelle Monaghan and Creator/MichaelKeaton, was released in 2014.

''Wait Until Dark'' is a mystery/thriller play by Frederick Knott. The heroine is recently blind Susy Hendrix, a Greenwich Village housewife who becomes the target of three thugs searching for the heroin hidden in a doll, which her husband transported from Canada as a favor to a woman who since has been murdered. The trio tries to convince Susy her spouse has been implicated in the crime and the only way to protect him is to surrender the doll. More murder and mayhem ensue when she refuses. It was originally produced on Broadway in 1966, and made into [[TheMovie a film]] the next year starring Creator/AudreyHepburn and Creator/AlanArkin.

It was revived on Broadway in 1998 with a cast that included Marisa Tomei as Susy, Creator/QuentinTarantino as Roat, and Stephen Lang of Film/{{Avatar}} fame as Mike Talman.

Another revival in October of 2013 at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles moved the setting back to 1944, giving it a distinctly FilmNoir flavor among other changes.

Another film adaptation, called ''Penthouse North'' and starring Michelle Monaghan and Creator/MichaelKeaton, was released in 2014.

A film adaptation called "Penthouse North" was released in 2014, starring Creator/MichaelKeaton.

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* MacGuffin: The doll, which is stuffed full of heroine.

* OhCrap: [[spoiler:After Susy's able to kill off most of the light sources in her apartment, Roat figures out that refrigerator ''has a working light''...]]

* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: The film takes place in what appears to be most desolate apartment building in New York City. Lampshaded early on when it was explained that of the six tenants living in the building, only Susy and Gloria were actually home - Shatner left for Vermont, Gloria's mother was uptown "for a weekend of fun and games" and her father had left as well, and Sam was off to work.