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The Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. The play opened in London's West End in 1952 and ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic .
This is a list of the longest-running shows (3,000 performances or more) in the West End, a well known professional theatre district in London.Nine currently running shows (two plays, seven musicals) have played more than 3,000 performances: The Mousetrap, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia!, The Lion King, Wicked, Matilda, The Book of Mormon, and The Play That Goes Wrong.
Saunders' most notable production was The Mousetrap, adapted for the stage by Christie, from her short story Three Blind Mice.It began its run at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End on 25 November 1952, switched once in 1974 to St Martin's Theatre next door, and continues there to this day, making it the longest unbroken sequence of performances in world theatre history.
There have been nearly 30,000 performances of Agatha Christie's famous murder mystery.
The first West End theatre, known as Theatre Royal in Bridges Street, was designed by Thomas Killigrew and built on the site of the present Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. [7] It opened on 7 May 1663 and was destroyed by a fire nine years later. It was replaced by a new structure designed by Christopher Wren and renamed the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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None of the above productions, nor any that opened subsequently, have approached the length of the run of Agatha Christie's murder mystery The Mousetrap, which after a pre-London tour opened at the Ambassadors Theatre on 25 November 1952 and ran continuously there, and later at the larger St Martin's Theatre, until the closure of London's ...
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