After a 100% sold-out critically acclaimed run in 2007, this visually stunning production will be restaged entirely behind a movie screen. Why bother mounting a live performance when the audience won't see it? Why bother doing anything?

A leggy redhead is shot dead in the middle of her nightclub act and Ben Farrell, American private detective, is on the case. The list of suspects grows to include a fatalistic femme fatale, an avaricious publisher, and a millionaire playboy who pens a serialized crime novel called…Kill Me Like You Mean It. Turns out that art imitates life and Ben Farrell finds his own life in the pages of the playboy’s pulp fiction while the redhead’s simple murder mystery quickly degenerates into a sick game for which Farrell never learned the rules.

"A stroke of genius" -Martin Denton, NYtheatre.com

"Intriguing...clever...we become fascinated by this whodunnit" -Andy Propst, Backstage

"A must-see for movie and theatre buffs." -Clute & Edwards, Noircast

The production stars David Berent*, Stanley Brode, Cameron J. Oro, Emily Otto, Sarah Stephens, and Alexia Vernon.  Jon Stancato directs Kiran Rikhye's script.  The production was made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Kill Me Like You Mean It was recently published by United Stages. The script is now on sale at the Drama Book Shop and copies will be available for purchase at the performance.