October 21st, 2025

Weathervane Playhouse presents To Die For by Caroline Smith. This gripping, eventful mystery will have you on the edge of your seat this summer 2026.

Weathervane Playhouse is excited to bring Caroline Smith’s play, To Die For, to the stage in the summer 2026 season. 

At Weathervane, we can’t pass up a good murder-mystery! And in this dramatic game of cat-and-mouse between characters, we are thrilled to coordinate a memorable show for you.

 About the Author

Creating many successful plays, musicals, and Panto scripts in the U.S. and Canada, Caroline Smith is known for winning three Lieutenant Governor’s Awards and numerous business achievement awards. 

She started her 35 year long career in professional theater and continues as a guest director, dramaturge, and owner of Moonpath Productions. And for a decade, she worked at almost every major theatre in Canada.

Caroline Smith is a new author to come to the Weathervane stage, and we are excited to bring to life her dark and humorous, clever and chaotic play, To Die For.

Caroline Smith has also written and produced her comedy The Kitchen Witches, which won the 2005 Samuel French Canadian Playwriting Competition!

Thank you to Caroline Smith for her 2017 work, To Die For, that fills us with puzzling questions and suspicions, and a memorable show for audience fun.

To Die For…

“Janet Bailey rushes down the stairs, obviously panic-stricken. She tries to open the front door, but it will not open. 

Carla Woods slowly walks down the stairs. She is beautiful in the way that Disney’s evil queens are – tall, slim, gorgeous…and deadly. She is dressed in a flowing black gown, and is carrying a small pistol. She smiles like a child at an Easter egg hunt.”

Carla is a best-selling author of Gothic romance novels, or “bodice rippers.” She is an extremely well-preserved forty-something, flawlessly groomed woman, and always in perfect control of both herself and her surroundings. However, she struggles to keep her secretaries.

After being disappointed by her secretary, Janet Bailey, Carla’s publisher sends Grace Hunter to interview to be her new secretary and personal assistant. As Grace inquires about Carla’s previous secretaries, she explains, “Kids love to be scared – It’s the adults who have a problem with it.”

Grace Hunter appears to be a nervous, timid sort of woman in her early thirties. Dresses neatly but inexpensively in business attire. Always carries a shabby briefcase. She has her suspicions, but feels she can learn how to get along.

Both highly intelligent and clever women, they work to outsmart one another in their series of games. Until a man shows up at Carla’s large, spooky mansion and throws them all for a twist.

This man is tall and handsome, a perfect “ideal dreamboat” who could have just stepped off the cover of a romance novel. Charismatic and somewhat dangerous; a blend of James Bond, George Clooney, and Heathcliff. And just so happens to resemble the main character of her next book, Edward… (Is this a prank, or did she will him into existence?)

Before Carla gets bored with the next trap she sets for Grace, will she be caught in a dangerous web of lies? Her last secretary worried one of her games would go too far…

A Memorable Show

Weathervane’s creatively designed stage is fit to swallow the cast, filled with mazes and secret passageways, and full of surprises, making this play memorable. The timed sound effects and intense scenes will have you in a state of psychological tension, guessing the final moments of this comedy-thriller.

Carla triggers all the light changes, traps, and realistic props to intimidate Grace for her satisfaction. Plates shatter, guns fire, and loud laughter is heard throughout the house.

Just when you think you begin to understand the game, there’s another plot twist awaiting. Expect big reactions and great excitement as the mysteries unravel!

Like a game inside of a game, To Die For resembles that of Deathtrap and Sleuth, with its clever schemes of deception and tangle of plot twists, which leave you with a shocking ending you won’t expect.

See You There!

Find out how the story unfolds in summer 2026 at Weathervane Playhouse. Join us for a fantastic production of To Die For from July 23rd through August 1st. Individual tickets on sale February 1st.