Agatha Christie News

Playwright Rob Urbinati had a clever idea with DEATH BY DESIGN: Take the sophisticated and witty banter of the characters of Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde and drop them into the middle of an Agatha Christie murder mystery. In order for all of this to work, he wrote it as a farce. Edward Bennett (Bill Clausen), a playwright, and his actress wife, Sorel (Ashleigh Pedersen) have just had a disastrous opening night and they've escaped London to hunker down in their country digs, only to have their peace shattered by the arrival of one unexpected screwball guest after another. When one of the guests is murdered, the manor's maid is determined to solve the crime.

A classic Agatha Christie whodunit is set to deliver a web of intrigue for the Old Mill Theatre's first season of the year. Directed by Joan Scafe, The Unexpected Guest follows a stranger lost in fog, who seeks refuge in a nearby house - only to find a man shot dead and his wife standing over him with a smoking gun.

The greatest secrets are often hidden in the most unlikely places.

Louise Jameson is to star with recent graduate Thomas Mahy making his London stage debut in Philip Ridley's Vincent River.

Cindy Brown's stage-struck sleuth Ivy Meadows is on the case of a brand new mystery that becomes highly personal when it involves her best friend.

For one night only, Tony Award winner Leslie Odom, Jr. can be heard in the intimate setting at Long Wharf Theatre with his five-piece band performing pop and jazz standards along with tunes from his Broadway roles.

Charles Fee, Producing Artistic Director of Great Lakes Theater (GLT), unveiled an ambitious, six-production array of classics to headline the company's 2018-19 season. Great Lakes Theater's fifty-seventh year is scheduled to run from September 2018 through May 2019 at Playhouse Square's Hanna and Ohio Theatres.

There's nothing like seeing a theatre do what it does best. When it comes to Oyster Mill, it's Agatha Christie.

The Potomac Playmakers announce the third show of the 2017-2018 Season, Rob Urbinati's comedy, Death By Design! What happens when you mix the brilliant wit of Noel Coward with the intricate plotting of Agatha Christie?

I love a good mystery.  It is my favorite genre.  Beavercreek Community Theatre's production of AND THEN THERE WERE NONE, Agatha Christie's most successful novel as adapted for the stage,  did not disappoint me.  

strangers find themselves stuck on a remote island with a murderous maniac picking them off one by one, and each potential victim is also a suspect. Agatha Christie's classic And Then There Were None opens Friday February 9th at the Farmington Players Barn Theater, and runs through February 25th. Tickets are available at farmingtonplayers.org or at the box office, (248) 553-2955.

Shakespeare & Company is pleased to announce the return of Lovers' Spat, this year with a new twist. The popular performance will be hosted by internationally acclaimed comedienne Alison Larkin. Company actors and guest performers explore the complexities of love in staged readings featuring theatre's most notorious couples' loving, fighting, scheming and wooing. Lover's Spat is directed by Artistic Director Allyn Burrows and will be performed in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre on Saturday, February 17 at 7:00pm and Sunday, February 18 at 2:00pm.

Seattle Public Theater currently has a musical on their boards, "Vanishing Point", highlighting the stories of three remarkable women, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson (Heather Hawkins), aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Cristin J. Hubbard), and mystery writer Agatha Christie (Rebecca M. Davis). Each of these women, very different from each other, have one thing in common, that they each disappeared under mysterious circumstances. And while the premise may sound fascinating and they may boast an impressive cast, the musical itself is weighed down by repetitive lyrics that fail to move anything along and few melodies you can latch onto.

Pre-eminent Welsh interdisciplinary artist Marc Rees (P.A.R.A.D.E., {150}, Tir Sir Gar, Raw Material: Llareggub Revisited) will transform the city of Swansea for five days this September. This theatrical experience will take visitors on an extraordinary journey through three narratives of war; from the beautiful Swansea Bay beach to discovering artistic treasures in the city's iconic Brangwyn Hall.

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When an inspector mysteriously arrives at the home of the affluent Birling family, their intimate dinner party takes a turn for the worst. Inspector Goole brutally questions each family member regarding the death of a young woman, but each denies knowing her. Will the inspector get to the bottom of the mystery or will secrets remain?

Take five actors, with some nearly three dozen characters, plus a mystery that's playing as melodrama while also playing as a farce, and turn it into a hit show.

Fiery Angel and Royal & Derngate Northampton today announce the full casting for Agatha Christie's Love From A Stranger, directed by Lucy Bailey. The production will launch in Northampton and play for three weeks from Friday 23 February, before embarking on a UK wide tour.

Casting is announced for the world premiere of Old Fools by Tristan Bernays, a surprising, touching and often humorous tale about a couple, one of whom is living with Alzheimer's, and their enduring efforts to hold their relationship together through the years.

Virginia Olivieri is putting another notch in her directorial and acting belt with a riveting production of Agatha Christie's VERDICT, running through March 4th at Desert Stages Theatre's new digs in Scottsdale. Dame Christie's VERDICT is a thinking person's drama, a morality play loaded with irony that puts a learned man and his unwavering adherence to principle in the dock. VERDICT is a smartly crafted and provocative script, intelligently directed, and skillfully performed.