Agatha Christie News

This fall, Town Players of Newtown will be staging Agatha Christie's THE MOUSETRAP, and opening night is Friday, September 30 at 8 PM.

Theatre Britain presents The Hollow by Agatha Christie, opening at 8pm today, September 2 at the Cox Playhouse, 1517 H Avenue, Plano TX 75074 and running through September 25.

Acclaimed playwright Steven Carl McCasland (Little Wars, What Was Lost, neat & tidy) has debuted his new online anthology of monologues,The Bone Orchard Monologues. Inspired by the classic Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, McCasland has combined his love of history and monologues for this new anthology.

Bristol Riverside Theatre opens its 30th Anniversary Season with A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline by Dean Regan on September 27-October 16.

With a small yet stellar cast directed by Pamela Hunt and finishing the Playhouse's 90th season as its final full length production of the summer, there is so much to love about this production of Christie's classic The Mousetrap. Honestly, if you don't enjoy it, you really aren't following the story close enough. From enigmatic characters, all whom are just about self-incriminatingly suspicious from the very start, to a plot that you will try your utmost to decipher while the facts are laid out bare before you, Hunt and her cast have truthfully really created quite the masterpiece with this production

Renaissance City Theatre Inc., the producing entity at the Granite Theatre of Westerly announces the opening Agatha Christie's 'Black Coffee'. The show opens Friday September, 2016 and runs all Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm through October 2, 2016. Producer/ Artistic Director for the theatre is David Jepson. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Desert Theatreworks (DTW), Palm Desert's 501(c)(3) community theatre, has received 64 nominations for the Desert Theatre League's 2016 Desert Star awards, the most of any company. Lance and Ron Phillips-Martinez, the spouses who serve as DTW's artistic director and executive director, respectively, sat down with Broadway World to discuss the company's nominations and its upcoming season. The 2016-17 season consists of two comedies, a murder mystery, two musicals, and a holiday revue featuring Frank Sinatra's songs: The Realistic Joneses, A Murder is Announced, Christmas My Way: A Sinatra Holiday Bash, 45 Seconds from Broadway, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Next to Normal.

The 90th anniversary season of The Cape Playhouse wraps up with Agatha Christie's mystery classic, The Mousetrap.  Directed by Pamela Hunt, it runs August 23 - September 3. Press night is set for Today, August 23 at 7:30 pm.

Check out a wonderful vintage photo of Michael Crawford and the mask.

The 90th anniversary season of The Cape Playhouse wraps up with Agatha Christie's mystery classic, The Mousetrap.  Directed by Pamela Hunt, it runs August 23 - September 3. Press night is set for Tuesday, August 23 at 7:30 pm.

Bristol Riverside Theatre announces the appointment of ANNE S. KOHN as managing director following a national search conducted by Management Consultants for the Arts, Inc.

Leslie Odom Jr. is certainly keeping busy after his Tony-winning run on Broadway in HAMILTON. Variety writes that the actor is in talks to join Kenneth Branagh's new big screen adaptation of Agatha Christie's iconic detective novel MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS.

When Father Monroe discovers that Marcela and her Cuban-American family are struggling, he offers a warmth and kindness unlike anything Marcela has ever experienced. Small acts of generosity blossom into love as the lines between vocation and passion begin to blur. McCarter Theatre Center Artistic Director Emily Mann and playwright Nilo Cruz reunite for the first time since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics with this lyrical new play about falling in love and finding a place to call home.

This autumn, Artistic Director Douglas Rintoul launches his first season at the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch with the first ever revival of the hit musical Made in Dagenham.  Bringing the West End hit back to its roots just a stone's throw from The Ford Factory Dagenham in which it is set, the co-production with New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich presents a company of twenty-one actor musicians which is bolstered further by six members of the Queen's Youth Theatre.   

Agatha Christie's beloved murder mystery The Mousetrap will return to Swindon on the final leg of its record-breaking and first ever, UK tour.

Theatre Britain presents The Hollow by Agatha Christie, opening at 8pm on Friday, September 2 at the Cox Playhouse, 1517 H Avenue, Plano TX 75074 and running through September 25.

The critically acclaimed BBC drama, LINE OF DUTY, SERIES 3, returns with six more riveting episodes debuting on DVD on August 9, 2016 from Acorn

For the fourth show in their 45th anniversary summer season, Cortland Repertory Theatre presents the regional premiere of the exciting murder mystery 'Cards on the Table' adapted by Leslie Darbon from the novel by Agatha Christie. Performances will run from tonight, August 3rd, through August 13th with evening performances at 7:30 PM. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

The critically acclaimed BBC drama, LINE OF DUTY, SERIES 3, returns with six more riveting episodes debuting on DVD on August 9, 2016 from Acorn

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) just announced full casting for the first two shows of the 2016/17 season, NAT TURNER IN JERUSALEM and OTHELLO.