There's something particularly effective about a thriller that unfolds entirely within one apartment, and Frederick Knott's classic "Wait Until Dark" (in this Jeffrey Hatcher adaptation) has been unsettling audiences since the 1960s for good reason. The setup is deceptively simple: a blind woman, alone in her home, finds herself outmatched on paper by three con men hunting for a doll stuffed with heroin. What follows is a slow tightening of tension as she turns her disability into her sharpest weapon, using sound, memory, and sheer nerve to even the odds against men who assume she's helpless.

Las Vegas Little Theatre has built its reputation on exactly this kind of intimate, character-driven drama, and a taut suspense piece like this one suits their community stage well. Expect the kind of close-quarters staging where every creak of a floorboard or flicker of a match matters, and where the audience feels almost complicit in the woman's growing awareness that she's not as alone in that apartment as she'd like to be.