Editing Gas Light (section)

== Reception ==
''Angel Street'' was a hit in its Broadway premiere, and it remains one of the [[List of the longest-running Broadway shows|longest-running]] non-musicals in Broadway history, with 1,295 total performances.<ref name="philadelphiaweekly.com"/>

It remains a perennial favourite with both [[Repertory theatre|repertory]] and amateur theatre companies.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

''[[The New York Times]]'' critic [[Brooks Atkinson]] opens his 6 December 1941 review with this observation: “Although Patrick Hamilton writes his thrillers within a small compass, he writes them with infinite craft and dexterity. ''Angel Street'', which sent a chill up the spine of the Golden Theatre last evening, comes off the top part of the theatre's top shelf.” Atkinson praises Straube for matching “Hamilton’s skill in a tingling performance that fills the theater with an ominous and terrifying illusion” and commends all the actors, observing that Leo G. Carroll had his best role in years.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Patrick Hamilton's 'Angel Street' Is the New Mystery Drama at the Golden Theatre| work=The New York Times |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/12/06/104311413.html?pageNumber=15|access-date=2020-07-10|language=en}}</ref>

In his review of the 1948 City Center production, [[Louis Kronenberger]] wrote: "(It) remains one of the better thrillers&nbsp;... let's call it one of the best. All the same, though it holds up nicely for three acts, it seems to me outstandingly good for only one."<ref name="city">Kronenberger, Louis. [http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20PM%20%20Daily/New%20York%20NY%20PM%20Daily%201948/New%20York%20NY%20PM%20Daily%201948%20-%200597.pdf "Victorian Villainy at the City Center"] fultonhistory.com, 25 January 1948</ref>

Reviewing Traube's 1975 Broadway revival, [[Clive Barnes]] asked:  “Whatever happened to the good, old‐fashioned melodrama? It probably drifted over to television and died. Just about 35 years ago...Patrick Hamilton's English thriller, ''Angel Street'', opened on Broadway with resounding success. It was directed and produced by Shepard Traube. Last night, at the Lyceum Theater, Mr. Traube attempted an encore. It was not called for...  The trouble with this play is not the trouble with this particular play—it is the trouble with this play as a particular. The theater cannot afford the luxury anymore of wilting heroines, villains making out as if they were Vincent Price (35 years ago it was Vincent Price!) or detectives detecting with the solidity of a basset hound... Nothing is quite clever enough in ''Angel Street'', and the atmosphere is so rarefied that the play is artistically in dire need of oxygen.”<ref>{{Cite news|last=Barnes|first=Clive|date=1975-12-27|title=The Stage: 'Angel Street'|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/27/archives/the-stage-angel-street-hamiltons-melodrama-revived-at-lyceum.html|access-date=2020-07-10|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

On 24 May 2007, in her review of the Irish Repertory Theatre revival, ''The New York Times''{{'}} [[Ginia Bellafante]] observed that ''Gaslight'' "established the blueprint for a kind of domestic-peril thriller... Every time an actress portrays the sort of wife who discovers that the greatest threat to her mental and physical safety is the man sitting in her breakfast nook, Mr. Hamilton’s estate ought to receive some type of remuneration....[[David Staller]] plays this undesirable husband as a man whose lust exempts nothing. Every time he appears onstage, you think: keep this person away from my babysitter and Rolex. Mr. Staller's rogue posture modulates his character's cruelty, leavening the play's potentially stifling mood. Mr. Hamilton believed our most dangerous enemies were always in the room with us&nbsp;..., and his work can feel claustrophobic.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bellafante |first=Ginia |date=2007-05-24 |title=Crazy, He Calls Me (and Terrified, I Agree) |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/theater/reviews/24gasl.html |access-date=2022-09-15 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Ms. Moore is aware of this, providing the proper ventilation to clear much of the Victorian must. Brian Murray, playing the detective who uncovers Manningham's plan, is her greatest asset in this regard. He appears onstage with the red cheeks of a Santa Claus, an ageing imp who hides out in nooks and corners, showing a benevolent sarcasm that teases Bella out of her dimwitted complacency".<ref>Bellafante, Ginia. [http://theater.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/theater/reviews/24gasl.html "Theater Review. 'Gaslight{{'"}}] ''The New York Times'', 24 May 2007</ref>