Charles Shaughnessy & Jeremy Bobb to Sleuth This Summer

Charles Shaughnessy and Jeremy Bobb will play theatrical cat-and-mouse in Sleuth at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The revival of Anthony Shaffer’s thriller will run July 16-August 1, directed by Jesse Berger.

Shaughnessy—best remembered for his role as Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield on TV’s The Nanny—stars as massively successful mystery writer Andrew Wyke, who lures his wife’s lover, Milo Tindle Bobb, recently seen in Finian’s Rainbow and Donald Margulies’ Shipwrecked, to his home for an evening of mind games and mystery.

Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth, which won the 1971 Tony Award for Best Play, played 1,222 performances on Broadway. It has twice been adapted for the big screen—in 1972, with Laurence Olivier as Wyke and Michael Caine as Tindle, and in 2007, with Caine as Wyke and Jude Law as Tindle with a screenplay by Harold Pinter.