Wait Until Dark at Court

Knott’s 1966 thriller, in which a recently blinded woman, Susy Hendrix (Gavino), is harassed in her home by a trio of con men, holds up well in Parson’s stylish revival. The playwright was a meticulous plotter; if we allow for the generous suspension of disbelief that a suspense caper like this requires—why would a thug as ruthlessly amoral as the ringleader Roat (a terrifically chilly Hoogenakker) bother with such an elaborate ruse?—the story is relatively airtight.