Westport Country Playhouse Presents AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Reading 2/22

The Agatha Christie classic murder mystery, And Then There Were None, will be read by Westport Country Playhouse actor alumni and audience favorites, including Broadway veteran Beth Fowler. 

Directed by Anne Keefe, Playhouse artistic advisor, the reading is the first in the Script in Hand series that will bring together professional actors to read works by master playwrights. "I'm thrilled to be asked to put the reading series back on The Playhouse stage," said Ms. Keefe, "It just seemed like a great time to bring back a program that had been so popular." The new playreading series is a continuation of the highly successful "Funny Mondays" and "The Classical Series," produced by The Playhouse from 2005 through 2008.

The Westport Country Playhouse is located at 25 Powers Court in Westport, Connecticut 06880. Purchase tickets online or call 203.227.4177. For more information visit http://www.westportplayhouse.org/. 

In the play, And Then There Were None, ten people, who have previously been involved in the deaths of others but escaped retribution, are tricked into coming to an island where they are all mysteriously murdered in eerie resemblance to the nursery rhyme Ten Little Indians. 

The cast for the reading will include Geneva Carr (How The Other Half Loves), Keir Dullea (Butterflies Are Free), Beth Fowler (David Copperfield), Charlotte Moore (The Fatal Weakness), Ciarán O'Reilly (The Streets of New York), Joe Paulik (Old Wicked Songs), Jay O. Sanders, Mark Shanahan (Around the World in 80 Days), Doug Stender (A Marriage Minuet), and Paxton Whitehead (How The Other Half Loves).  

Playwright Agatha Christie is known as the "Queen of Crime." Her works, particularly those featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.