"completed. The sale was postponed pending redevelopment approval. The sale was cancelled in 2018. Vivien Leigh made her West End debut in the Ambassadors, starring in ""The Mask of Virtue"" (1935); this was the play in which Laurence Olivier first saw her perform. The theatre's most famous production is Agatha Christie's ""The Mousetrap"", which showed from 1952 to 1974 before moving next door to the St Martin's Theatre where it is still running. After its purchase by the Ambassador Theatre Group under producer Sonia Friedman, productions included Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill, Spoonface Steinberg by Lee Hall, Krapp's Last"
"The Mousetrap The Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. ""The Mousetrap"" opened in London's West End in 1952, and has been running continuously since then. The longest running West End show, it has by far the longest initial run of any play in history, with its 25,000th performance taking place on 18 November 2012. The play has a twist ending, which the audience are traditionally asked not to reveal after leaving the theatre. The play began life as a short radio play broadcast on 30 May 1947 called ""Three Blind Mice"" in honour of Queen Mary, the"
"finished production. Although the play is an original piece, within it Christie utilised four plot devices from earlier works she had written: The play opened at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham on 27 September 1954, followed by a short national tour and then had its West End opening on 13 December 1954 at the Savoy Theatre, where it ran for 774 performances. With ""The Mousetrap"" and ""Witness for the Prosecution"" still running, Christie was at the peak of her West End career. On 7 March 1955, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Princess Margaret were among the audience for a performance"
"Brown in ""Meet the Wife"". Successes at the theatre included Hugh Williams's play (later a film) ""The Grass is Greener"", John Mortimer's ""The Wrong Side of the Park"", and in 1970 the thriller ""Sleuth"". After Cochran, Bertie Meyer ran the theatre intermittently until 1967, when his son R. A. (Ricky) Meyer became administrator for the next two decades. The St Martin's was Grade II listed by English Heritage in March 1973. In March 1974 Agatha Christie's ""The Mousetrap"" transferred from the Ambassadors to the St Martin's, where it continues its run today, holding the record for the longest continuously running"
"Samsonov made a movie entitled ""Мышеловка"" (""Myshelovka"", ""The Mousetrap"") at Mosfilm. The script by Vladimir Basov Jr. is based on Agatha Christie's play. The Mousetrap The Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. ""The Mousetrap"" opened in London's West End in 1952, and has been running continuously since then. The longest running West End show, it has by far the longest initial run of any play in history, with its 25,000th performance taking place on 18 November 2012. The play has a twist ending, which the audience are traditionally asked not to reveal after leaving the theatre. The"
"Agatha Christie Memorial The Agatha Christie Memorial is a memorial to author and playwright Agatha Christie, located at the intersection of Cranbourn Street and Great Newport Street by St Martin's Cross near Covent Garden, in London, United Kingdom. It is located in the heart of London's theatre district. This was chosen to pay homage to Christie's contribution to theatre: her murder mystery play ""The Mousetrap"" is the world's longest-running show, and she was the first female playwright to have three plays performing simultaneously in the West End. The memorial depicts a book with Christie at its centre. It is about"
"acclaim at the Garrick Theatre in 1942. In 1949, exhibitors voted him the sixth most popular British actor at the box office. Early in his stage career, Attenborough starred in the West End production of Agatha Christie's ""The Mousetrap"", which went on to become the world's longest running stage production. Both he and his wife were among the original cast members of the production, which opened in 1952 at the Ambassadors Theatre and as of 2014 is still running at the St Martins Theatre. They took a 10 per cent profit-participation in the production, which was paid for out of"
"'World's Longest Running Play.' This was the first time The Mousetrap has been licensed in the UK outside of the West End since it launched in 1952. 25 actors for the 135 performances of all 25 of Agatha Christie's plays in a 12-week season to mark the 25th anniversary of the mystery writer's death. It is believed that the Palace Theatre holds the world record for performing Agatha Christie. The Dixon Studio complements the Main House with a wide range of performances by visiting small-scale touring theatre, dance and puppet companies. It also is used for some of the in-house"
"before being published as a novel. Although initially the play was met with little success, the novel is credited with influencing the mystery genre and arguably creating the ‘masked hero’ genre. On October 6, 1952, the theatre made history with the world premiere of ""The Mousetrap"" (as part of a pre-West End tour). The play has gone on to be the longest-running theatrical production in the world. In 1969 the city council bought the theatre and began restoring it at a cost of £4 million in the day, re-opening it in 1978. It was in need of restoration and had"
"2018 the original production was revived for a UK tour, in a partnership between the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Touring Consortium Theatre Company. The tour ran from 28 March 2018, until 28 April and visited Cambridge, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Guildford, Cheltenham, Bath, Richmond and London's Park Theatre. Following completion of the tour the production will transfer to the West End's Ambassadors Theatre, where it will run from 6 June 2018, running until 1 September. The West End transfer marks the 74th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The play is set in 1944 at Southwick House, the headquarters"
"In 1997, at the initiative of producer Stephen Waley-Cohen, the theatrical education charity Mousetrap Theatre Projects was launched, helping young people experience London's theatre. The play's storyline is set at ""the present"", which presumably means England as it was around the time when the play came out in 1952, including postwar continuation of WWII rationing. Tom Stoppard's 1968 play ""The Real Inspector Hound"" parodies many elements of ""The Mousetrap"", including the surprise ending. As a stage play, ""The Mousetrap"" had its world premiere at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham on 6 October 1952. It was originally directed by Peter Cotes, elder"
"in-house productions a year. In addition there are lively mix of visiting companies, local amateur societies, one nighters and Sunday concerts. As before the theatre often hosts local bands on Sunday nights, and with free entry the foyer is often full to capacity. The New Palace Theatre Company (Green & Lenagan) presented the first ever Agatha Christie Theatre Festival it run from 8 May to 28 July 2001. The festival, featured all of Christie's 25 plays, including a semi-staged performance of the West End production of The Mousetrap using all of the actors of the West End cast of the"
"on the first night. After an eight-week tour, the play opened at the Fortune Theatre in London on 7 June 1951 to an enthusiastic press response. It transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre on 8 October 1951 and ran for a total of eleven months and 376 performances, enabling Christie to see it on her return. One special thrill for Saunders was a request by Queen Mary, a noted Christie fan, to see the play and she came to the Fortune Theatre to do so and met various members of the cast in the interval. Christie herself was so pleased at"
"""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""Lion King"" and Willy Russell's ""Blood Brothers"" which have also subsequently overtaken ""Cats"". However the non-musical Agatha Christie play ""The Mousetrap"" is the longest-running production in the world, and has been performed continuously since 1952. The following have been announced as future West End productions. The theatre in which they will run is either not yet known or currently occupied by another show. The term ""West End theatre"" is generally used to refer specifically to commercial productions in Theatreland. However, the leading non-commercial theatres in London enjoy great artistic prestige. These include the Royal National"
"26,000 performances. The director of the play for many years has been David Turner. Christie herself did not expect ""The Mousetrap"" to run for such a long time. In her autobiography, she reports a conversation that she had with Peter Saunders: ""Fourteen months I am going to give it"", says Saunders. To which Christie replies, ""It won't run that long. Eight months perhaps. Yes, I think eight months."" When it broke the record for the longest run of a play in the West End in September 1957, Christie received a mildly grudging telegram from fellow playwright Noël Coward: ""Much as"
"published in the UK in ""Famous Plays of 1954"" by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1954. The first printing in the US was in the same year in a paperback edition by Samuel French Ltd. French also published the play in the UK in 1957 as French's Acting Edition No 648 priced at five shillings. It was reprinted in hardback for the US market in ""The Mousetrap and Other Plays"" by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1978 () and in the UK by Harper Collins in 1993 (). The very first performance of the story, just pre-dating the debut of Christie's"
"to the St James's Theatre and then the Duchess Theatre, for a total of 1,997 performances. It was directed by Coward; sets and costumes were designed by Gladys Calthrop. During the run Beryl Measor took over as Madame Arcati and Irene Browne took over the role of Ruth. When the play transferred from the Piccadilly to the St James's in 1942, Coward took over the role of Charles for a time. The run set a record for non-musical plays in the West End that was not surpassed until 1957 by ""The Mousetrap"". The Broadway premiere was on 5 November 1941"
"its Off-Broadway run at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater with an October 22, 2012, premiere and was scheduled to run until November 18 before being extended until December 2. Hurricane Sandy caused the cancellation of the October 28 and 29 evening performances but not the October 28 matinee. On November 1, it was extended again until December 23. On February 6, 2013, the London premiere of the play was announced as an Off West End opening at the Bush Theatre, beginning in May 2013 under the direction of Nadia Fall. Its previews were scheduled to begin on May 17 before opening on"
"objection of an official from the Ministry of Labour to the presence of a maid in the cast of characters. The play, with the name ""Murder on the Nile"" finally opened in the West End on 19 March 1946 at the Ambassadors Theatre, where six years later ""The Mousetrap"" would open. By this time, Sullivan was no longer in the cast. The play features fewer characters who were derived from multiple of the book's characters; Marie Van Schuyler and Mrs. Allerton are merged into the character of Helen Ffoliot-ffoulkes while Cornelia Robson and Miss Bowers become Christina Grant. William Smith"
"Spider's Web (play) Spider's Web is a play by crime writer Agatha Christie. Spider's Web, which premiered in London’s West End in 1954, is Agatha Christie's second most successful play (744 performances), having run longer than Witness for the Prosecution, which premiered in 1953 (458 performances). It is surpassed only by her record-breaking The Mousetrap, which has run continuously since opening in the West End in 1952. ""Spider's Web"" was written at the request of its star, Margaret Lockwood, whose main body of work was in films and who had never appeared in a West End production aside from ""Peter"
"2 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare's works and the Bible. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. ""And Then There Were None"" is Christie's best-selling novel, with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the best-selling books of all time. Christie's stage play ""The Mousetrap"" holds the world record for longest initial run. It opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End"
"Ambassadors Theatre (London) The Ambassadors Theatre (formerly the New Ambassadors Theatre), is a West End theatre located in West Street, near Cambridge Circus on Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster. It is one of the smallest of the West End theatres, seating a maximum of 444, with 195 people in the dress circle and 251 in the stalls. The theatre was, along with the adjacent St Martin's conceived by their architect, W. G. R. Sprague, as companions, born at the same time in 1913, but the First World War interrupted the construction of the latter for three years."
"the New Theatre, Cardiff, Oxford Playhouse, Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, Manchester Opera House, Theatre Royal, Glasgow and Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. From August to October 2018, the play will embark an 11-week UK tour beginning at Nottingham Theatre Royal before touring to Oxford Playhouse, Northcott Theatre, Exeter, Festival Theatre, Malvern, Curve, Leicester, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne and Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Following the tour, the play will return to the Arts Theatre in London's West End running from 16 October to 1 December 2018. The Wipers Times (play) The Wipers Times is a play by Ian Hislop and Nick"
"in the West End on 12 March 2013. The production won 7 Olivier Awards in 2013 (including Best New Play), at the time equaling the record with ""Matilda the Musical"" in 2012, before both were surpassed by ""Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"" in 2017 with 9 awards. During a performance on 19 December 2013, the ceiling of the Apollo Theatre collapsed causing the production to close. It reopened on 9 July 2014 at the Gielgud Theatre. The play closed at the Gielgud on 3 June 2017. The Broadway production debuted at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on 5 October 2014"
"London in 1953. It opened at the Players' Theatre Club on April 14, 1953, and reopened in an expanded version on October 13. It transferred for a short season to the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage and then opened at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End on January 14, 1954. Choreography was by John Heawood. The light, tuneful piece proved immensely popular with the British public, including the Queen, and ran for more than five years, a total of 2,082 performances. The principal role of Polly Browne was to have been played by Diana Maddox, who fell sick on the afternoon"
"1947, just as the first, live from Alexandra Palace, at 8.45pm in a 75-minute broadcast. The stars of this version were Joy Harrington and Henry Oscar. The play was broadcast again two days later when the cast and crew repeated their Sunday performance at 3.00pm on Tuesday, 27 May. Three days later BBC Radio broadcast ""Three Blind Mice"" which was later turned into a short story and in 1952 opened as ""The Mousetrap"", the longest-running play in stage history. Director/Producer: George More O'Ferrall Cast: Love from a Stranger (1947 TV play) Love from a Stranger is the name of two"
"agog over some wild experiment, ideally complements the bearded suavity of Mr. Flanders, who exudes from his wheelchair the robust authority of him who came to dinner."" Other notices were equally good, the box-office did excellent business, and the show transferred to the Fortune Theatre in the West End on 24 January 1957, where, according to ""The Times"", ""it took the audience by storm"". It ran for 808 performances at the Fortune until 2 May 1959. On 8 October 1959 the show opened in New York at the John Golden Theatre, running there for 215 performances. In the ""New York"
"with considered it impossible to produce. She received some encouragement from Charles Cochrane but he was unable to find financial backers. Finally, Bertie Mayer, who had produced the 1928 play ""Alibi"", agreed to stage it. After a try-out at the Wimbledon Theatre starting on 20 September 1943, the play opened in the West End at the St James's Theatre on 17 November. It gained good reviews and ran for 260 performances until 24 February 1944 when the theatre was bombed. It then transferred to the Cambridge Theatre opening on 29 February and running at that venue until 6 May. It"
"and closing on February 23, 1992. The play re-opened Off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater in March 1992 and closed on September 6, 1992, directed by David Petraca. It played at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, from September 1992 to October 1992, directed by David Petrarca. It was performed at the Hampstead Theatre in London in 1993 and transferred to the West End at the Comedy Theatre for a short-run. It played in Los Angeles at the Tiffany Theater in 1994. A Broadway production ran at the Roundabout Theatre Company at the American Airlines Theatre"
"the rest of the cast to reveal themselves. ""Shear Madness"" opened in Boston at the Charles Playhouse Stage II in January 1980. A second production, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts's Theater Lab in Washington D.C., opened in August 1987. A third production opened in November 2015 at the New World Stages Off-Broadway theater in New York City. The Boston production is sometimes described as the longest-running or second-longest-running non-musical play in the world, although various non-musical plays have run for longer: Agatha Christie's ""The Mousetrap"" in London since 1952, Eugène Ionesco's ""The Bald Soprano"" in"
"piece of theatre on the London stage"". It went on to play for two weeks at Theatre Royal, Stratford East and transferred to the Victoria Palace in the West End. It completed a national tour in 1999 which included the Belfast Festival and the National Theatre. In 2003 ""Justifying War – Scenes from the Hutton Inquiry"" opened at the theatre. In 2004 the theatre produced ""Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom"" written by Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo from spoken evidence, which transferred to the New Ambassadors Theatre in the West End and the Culture Project in New York (where"
"detective story; she produced ""The Mysterious Affair at Styles"", which was turned down by two publishers before it was published in 1920. Following the limited success of the novel, she continued to write and steadily built up a fan base for what ""Contemporary Authors"" calls ""her unfailingly clever plots"". She went on to write over a hundred works, including further novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and two autobiographies. Aside from works under her own name, she wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. One of Christie's plays, ""The Mousetrap"", opened in West End theatre in 1952 and, as"
"age ranges 17 - 23 The play was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London on 28 August 1982. It was directed by Max Stafford-Clark, the Royal Court's Artistic Director, who premiered several of Churchill's plays. The cast was Selina Cadell, Lindsay Duncan, Deborah Findlay, Carole Hayman, Lesley Manville, Gwen Taylor and Lou Wakefield. A production ran at the Watford Palace Theatre November 2–18, 2006 (before transferring to the Greenwich Theatre November 21–25, 2006). The cast included Rachel Sanders, Zoe Aldrich, Elaine Claxton, Sara Houghton, Emma Pallant, Claire Redcliffe and Hayley Jayne Standing. During the 2007–2008 New York theatre season,"