Ken Ludwig News

There’s a reason that Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time: she sure knows how to write a story. Her works have been immortalized in many ways, and the stage production of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS adapted by Ken Ludwig is another great example of her storytelling prowess come to life. Audience members get to gasp, laugh, and analyze in their turn as Poirot works his mystery-solving magic.

RED BULL THEATER and FIASCO THEATER have announced the cast for The Knight of the Burning Pestle opening April 27th at the newly renovated Lucille Lortel Theatre. 

The Windham Theatre Guild presents Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig. Performances are March 24, 25, 30, 31, April 1, 2023 at 7:30 PM, and March 26 & April 2, 2023 at 2 PM.

PlayMakers Repertory Company has revealed its lineup of mainstage shows for the 2023/2024 season, which includes two regional premieres, a world premiere, and a timeless classic.

See photos from opening night of Cowboy Bob at Alley Theatre!

Get your deerstalker cap on — the play's afoot! Comedic genius Ken Ludwig (Lend me a Tenor) transforms Arthur Conan Doyle's classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure.

What do you do when you're a Classics professor at one of the greatest universities in America and find a long lost manuscript by Euripides that will make you famous throughout the world? You lose it, of course. And then you call on the Ancient Greek Gods of Comedy to get you out of the mess. For young professor Daphne Rain, the first surprise is that the gods show up. And the second surprise is that any two people - even if they are gods - can wreak so much havoc on one university. The Ivy League will never be the same as a pair of screwball deities encounters the carnal complexity of college coeds, campus capers, and conspicuous consumption. Written by Ken Ludwig, Directed by Cathy Cordy, Cast: Randy Benge (Dionysus), Tiarra Dapo (Daphne), Julie Emmert-Silvius (Dean Trickett), Brian Henry (Aristide/Alexsi/Ares), Lynne Rouzer (Thalia), Daniel Sawtelle (Ralph), & Heather Schultz (Brooklyn/Zoe) Performances run March 10 - 25, 2023 at Curtain Players, 5691 Harlem Road, Galena, Ohio 43021. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit: http://curtainplayers.org

RED BULL THEATER and FIASCO THEATER have announced the cast for The Knight of the Burning Pestle at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Get a first look at footage of Jackie Burns, Ashley Pérez Flanagan and more in Cowboy Bob at Alley Theatre!

Theatrical Outfit will welcome you back to the heart of Downtown Atlanta for the grand reopening of the Balzer Theater at Herren's with Tiny Beautiful Things (March 29 – April 23, 2023). Our brand-new lobby – complete with a great new bar and seating area – awaits you as you join us for this deeply moving and personal night of theatre. YOUR NEW DOWNTOWN DESTINATION is calling! 

Listen as she describes how Jessica Stone manages a thriving career, marriage and motherhood! Plus, find out who the directors were in her life who helped shape how she runs a rehearsal room, and why now that she has found directing she really doesn't miss being an actress!

Kentwood Players presents Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery opening Friday, March 17 through Saturday, April 8 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm at the Westchester Playhouse.

Get a first look at photos of Jackie Burns, Ashley Pérez Flanagan and more in Cowboy Bob at Alley Theatre!

Ken Ludwig's celebrated adaptation is a fun, fresh take on a timeless classic tale of heroism, treachery, close escapes and, above all, honor. Sword fighting! Palace intrigue! Murder! Young love! This show has it all. By Ken Ludwig Adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Performances are March 3 - 12, 2023, Event space at Maria’s, 129 E Main Street, Lancaster, OH 43130. Purchase tickets: https://www.thelancasterplayhouse.org/

Alley Theatre has announced the cast and creative team of Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Jersey Lily.

Rorschach Theatre has announced the finalists for its annual Magic in Rough Spaces New Play Lab.

The TCAN Players will present Ken Ludwig's Moon Over Buffalo, March 3 through 12, 2023, at The Center for Arts in Natick.

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer.

Peninsula Players Theatre, America's oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County's theatrical icon, has announced that individual tickets will go on sale March 1 for its 88th season performing June 13 through October 15, 2023. 

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) - the leading regional performing arts theatre in the Midwest - closes out their 2022-2023 Mainstage season with the highly anticipated classic mystery, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Climb aboard with the masterful Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this classic whodunnit that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats until its shocking conclusion.