Based on the true crime story of queer murderers Leopold and Loeb, this brand-new adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s stage play Rope, which became the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name, resets the action to 1957 Manhattan, where Garrett Stern and Nate Singer are beautiful, brilliant, and dangerously bored Princeton grad students, throwing a dinner party in their chic Turtle Bay apartment – on top of a trunk containing their murder victim. A murder mystery in reverse, the story becomes a game of cat and mouse between the seductive, arrogant Garrett and his dinner party guests, as they get closer to discovering the truth – while his lover (and accomplice), the anxiety-prone Nathan, begins to crack under pressure. Newly adapted by Gordon Greenberg (The Baker’s Wife), this Rope is a raucous, bloody, sharp witted, sexually charged thriller that speaks to today’s cultural reckoning with privilege and power.