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The first half of the Ira Levin Collection from Blackstone Publishing is now complete! Brand new editions of all of Levin's iconic novels are now available! And beginning in early 2025, new reading editions of virtually all of Levin's stage plays will begin rolling out sequentially as well; watch this space for more!
Visit our 7A page to learn about Terry's actual role in Levin's seminal novel, and its renowned 1968 filming.
We wish MCT the best with their run of Levin's "gripping exploration of the darker side of human nature."
Ira Levin's son Nicholas has written a revelatory afterword for the new edition of Son of Rosemary that released today – uncloaking the novel's true origins, and its full relationship to its legendary predecessor, Rosemary's Baby.
Happy Birthday to the author of Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, A Kiss Before Dying, Deathtrap, The Boys from Brazil, Critic's Choice, Sliver, This Perfect Day, Drat! The Cat!, Veronica's Room...
Levin envisioned a disturbingly plausible future dystopia – one which presents as its opposite; a 'benign' vision, which increasingly aligns with our own tech-heavy world's present, and future trajectory.
This edition features a new afterword from renowned Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel.
Unfolding in a 'sliver' building (like this strictly illustrative example) Levin memorialized many of his Carnegie Hill neighborhood's actual fixtures (such as those seen here) in creating this unnerving 'cautionary' tale.
Sliver contains a new introduction by award-winning screenwriter and producer Rockne S. O'Bannon.
No, not Sidney Bruhl. Today would have been venerable Hollywood director Sidney Lumet's 100th birthday. Lumet directed the 1982 screen adaptation of Levin's comedy-thriller stage classic Deathtrap (still the fifth longest-running play in Broadway history). As Sidney B. might've said, here's to an actual "gifted director"!
What's perhaps most thrilling about the edition is the new Afterword contributed by Dr. Efraim Zuroff, real-life Nazi hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. (The book's central character, Yakov Liebermann, is a fictionalization of Wiesenthal.)
After nearly 50 years, Levin's boys are still going strong. (Read more about this classic thriller here.)
Congratulations to the Oswego Players on receiving six, count 'em, six Theatre Association of New York State TANYS awards for their recent production of Deathtrap.
Blackstone also released their hardcover edition of The Stepford Wives today, and it is simply beautiful.
The Levin estate worked directly with Blackstone on the hardcover to restore the first edition's layout, and all the other niceties lost to a half-century of reissues – while eradicating all known typos (some dating back to the first edition itself), and other such distractions which had crept in over the years. All resulting in the most definitive, best-reading edition to roll into town since Levin's iconic tale was first published.
The Levin estate had no role in its creative development – and as such is eager, along with everyone else, to see what they've done with the place.
(Levin of course made no secret that nearly everyone involved with the filming of Rosemary's Baby claimed credit for Farrow's casting.)
Today marks the release of Blackstone Publishing's new edition of Levin's science-fiction epic This Perfect Day, recipient of the Libertarian Futurist Society's Prometheus Award.
Blackstone Publishing's new edition of Levin's taut, erotically-tinged 1991 techno-thriller Sliver was released today. In typical ahead-of-the-curve fashion, Levin contemplated more than thirty years ago how far "reality TV" might be taken.
We can now confirm that the upcoming film Apartment 7A is indeed an official, 'authorized' production (how refreshing!) based on Ira Levin's 1967 novel Rosemary's Baby.
Check out this great new piece about “The Boys from Brazil” as the book turns 48, featuring an interview with Levin's son.
Another welcome Levin Jeopardy! answer, in the current Champions Wildcard tournament, fresh on the heels of 2.19's The Boys from Brazil answer. Thanks, Jeopardy!
Check out this new piece on SyFy.com about Levin's The Boys from Brazil (the book's receiving a new edition this summer), which incorporates a brand-new interview with 1978 screen adaptation scribe Heywood Gould
Check out these mod promo shots from the Players Guild of Leonia's current production of Deathtrap (Groovy!)
Two of Ira Levin's best-known novels are currently being featured in new museum exhibits: Rosemary's Baby at the Museum of the City of New York, and The Stepford Wives at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History. Check 'em out! (And let us know if you spot any in your neck of the woods!)
Check out this promotional video for the UK's Mill at Sonning production of Deathtrap. (And get Sidney some meds!)
We mourn the passing of actor David Soul, whom we were touched to read met his wife when they co-starred in a 2002 tour of Deathtrap.
Publisher's Weekly has posted an interview with prolific author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Haunted...) discussing Ira Levin's influence on his work. Check it out!
New wave legends Duran Duran have just released a list of the scariest movies to watch at Halloween, and Rosemary's Baby tops the list: “The only Halloween movie to get an emphatic thumbs up from both founding members of Duran Duran was based on Ira Levin’s 1967 Satanic novel of the same name.”
"Goosebumps" creator R.L. Stine has published a list of his favorite scary books, with Rosemary's Baby in the top slot. (Stine has earlier generously dubbed Levin's novel "The best thriller ever written.")
The 1968 film adaptation of Levin's Rosemary's Baby was just named “The Best horror movie set in New York State” by The Hard Times
A Kiss Before Dying has just been named to Time Magazine's list of the 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time
Here's a refreshingly non-spooky October feature on Michael Caine's top thriller films, featuring the screen adaptation of Deathtrap
In the wake of Rosemary's Baby's NY Fashion Week appearance, InStyle writes “Prim, proper, and ... Parisian? It's not the perfect formula for a Stepford wife, per se, but Kendall Jenner's look at the Schiaparelli presentation today at Paris Fashion Week seemed to draw from the perfectly coiffed look of Ira Levin's satirical work.”
“Rosemary’s Baby was a reference point. [Designer Joseph Altuzarra] had a copy of the 50th anniversary edition of the Ira Levin book placed on every guest seat.”
(Vogue)
Check out these moody promo photos of John Budzyna as Sidney Bruhl in Portsmouth, New Hampshire's Player's Ring production of Deathtrap
Paramount is issuing a 4K edition of Rosemary's Baby in time for spooky season
• Standalone
• Boxed set
Having recently been dubbed one of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years by the New York Times, Levin's classic Rosemary's Baby was just named one of Esquire's 50 Best Mysteries of All Time
IraLevin.org has received a top-to-bottom overhaul. We're still the same site (Honest, Joanna!) – just brimming with new content and information about Ira Levin and his works
Musical theater aficionados – pounce, don't jump – on this terrific new YouTube walkthrough of Levin's musical Drat! The Cat!
(Yes, the man who wrote Rosemary's Baby also wrote a Broadway musical)
Seattle gallery Roq Le Rue held a Stepford Wives exhibit featuring painted illustrations created by talented area artist Laurie Lee Brom for Suntup Press's upcoming limited edition of The Stepford Wives
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