
Darkness at Noon (1951, Claude Rains) - repro
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Sidney Kingsley’s Tony Award-winning historical drama 'Darkness at Noon' turned the stage of the Alvin Theatre into a spectacular, intellectually fierce courtroom in 1951, running for a triumphant 186 performances. Masterfully adapting Arthur Koestler’s classic anti-totalitarian novel, the claustrophobic narrative unfolds inside a grim Soviet prison during the historic 1937 purges, tracking Rubashov, a brilliant but disgraced old Bolshevik revolutionary who undergoes a brutal, sleep-deprived psychological interrogation by the totalitarian regime he helped construct. Directed by Kingsley, the production achieved historic status due to Claude Rains’s monumental, Tony-winning lead performance.

