Agatha Christie News

A prodigal son. A bunch of adolescent overachievers. An accused husband and his willful wife. These are among the unique characters of Olney Theatre Center's 73rd season.

'35 is a very attractive age,' according to Oscar Wilde, and Taproot Theatre Company agrees. Taproot Theatre Company celebrates its 35th Anniversary Season in 2011 with a year-long party featuring Wilde and his dandies, a myriad of mythological characters, and countless Taproot Theatre patrons and friends. Taproot Theatre Company's 2011 Season runs from January through October. The resubscription period is currently underway, with subscriptions opening to the general public on September 28.

Signal Ensemble Theatre presents the first show of its eighth season, Tom Stoppard's comedy 'The Real Inspector Hound,' the ensemble's inaugural presentation in their permanent theater space at 1802 W. Berenice Ave., a 50-seat venue in Chicago's North Center neighborhood. Theatre critics Moon and Birdboot attend the premiere of a new murder mystery and are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. As Moon laments his status as a second-string reviewer, and Birdboot considers adultery with one of the shows actresses, they soon find themselves inside the play-within-a-play, implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman. In a hilarious send-up of Agatha Christie-style melodrama, Stoppard's 1968 work is just as rooted in absurdism as it is in satire. Kicking off Signal's 'Season of Comedy,' this play set in the theater will appropriately open Signal's new performance space. The show will run about 65 minutes with no intermission.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 7/18 for Dallas/Houston

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 7/18 for Austin

The Tricycle Theatre will present Women, Power and Politics, a season opening immediately after the general election, exploring the history and current role of women in politics in Great Britain through twelve different plays, a film festival, curtain raisers (in conjunction with the National Theatre Studio) and an exhibition in the Tricycle's Gallery.

St. Nicholas, by Conor McPherson, will run July 15 - August 8, 2010 on the Neuhaus Stage this summer opposite the ExxonMobil Summer Chills series production of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap.

There's only one mystery writer, in my book, who has managed to capture and enthrall the hearts of millions through the past century, the one and only Agatha Christie. Her plays, like the longest running play on the West End The Mousetrap as well as this early hit Black Coffee, not only keep audience on the edge of their seats, guessing whodunit, but are as entertaining and fun as all get out, particularly when led by the devilishly fun Miss Marple, or in this case, the unparalleled Hercule Poirot. Theatre 4o's handsome production of Black Coffee is a real treat with a stellar ensemble.

Most recently the audience development intern at Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Arkansas-born Barry Honold's next theatrical adventure is as production dramaturg for Nashville Shakespeare Festival's upcoming production of Love's Labour's Lost, the company's 2010 Shakespeare-in-the-Park presentation. Directed by company artistic director Denice Hicks, the production stars Tom Angland, Jeff Boyet, Shannon Hoppe, Nettie Kraft, R. Alex Murray, Eric Pasto-Crosby, Ricardo Puerta, Joseph Robinson and Brenda Sparks.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 7/11 for Dallas/Houston

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 7/11 for Austin

Thrills, Chills and Music are all part of the Sands Theater Company's 2010-2011 Season. Here is what we have planned.

Different Stages runs Agatha Christie's SPIDER'S WEB through July 24th. The production opened on July 2nd and is being performed at the Vortex on 2307 Manor Road. Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. There is an added performance on Wednesday, July 21 at 8 p.m. Tickets are Pick your Price: $15, $20, $25, and $30.

Different Stages continues its 2009-2010 season with Agatha Christie's Spider's Web. Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library'? Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing room of her house. It becomes necessary to dispose of the body before her husband comes home with an important foreign politician, so Clarissa persuades her three houseguests to become accessories and accomplices. It seems that the murdered man was not unknown to certain members of the house party (but which ones?), and the search begins for the murderer and the motive, while at the same time trying to persuade a police inspector that there has been no murder at all...

Different Stages continues its 2009-2010 season with Agatha Christie's Spider's Web. Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library'?

Different Stages continues its 2009-2010 season with Agatha Christie's Spider's Web. Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library'?

Different Stages continues its 2009-2010 season with Agatha Christie's Spider's Web. Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library'?

Zoë Wanamaker will star as Madame Ranevskaya in the National Theatre's production of Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD, whatsonstage.com reports. The production will be directed by Howard Davies and will run in 2011. As previously reported on BroadwayWorld, the production will be broadcast as part of the National Theatre Live intiative.

Different Stages continues its 2009-2010 season with Agatha Christie's Spider's Web. Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library'?

Bell Road Barn Players presents And Then There Were None (formerly Ten Little Indians) by Agatha Christie