Agatha Christie’s‘The Mousetrap’ Set To Come To Broadway

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is coming to Broadway. Producers have announced that the West End staple will come to a Broadway venue in 2023.

The play has been a West End draw since it premiered in November of 1952 at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal. In the last 70 years, the play has been performed nearly 29,000 times, and an estimated 10 million people have seen the play. The Mousetrap has been performed in the US but never on Broadway or in New York.

The new staging will be a co-production between UK producer Adam Spiegel and American producer Kevin McCollum.

“I am thrilled that Agatha Christie’s beloved murder mystery that changed popular theatre and has been a landmark attraction for US visitors to London’s West End for the past 70 years will now be coming to Broadway,” McCollum said via statement. “I’m excited for the huge Christie fan-base in North America, and for the acting company in New York who will join the esteemed ranks of The Mousetrap alumni.”.

The play’s official website says of the new staging, “New York audiences will be able to see and hear some of the original sights and sounds from the production as it has appeared in London since 1952. The set will be a loving recreation of Anthony Holland’s design, and for a truly authentic touch, the only surviving piece of the original set — the mantelpiece clock — will be loaned from the London production for the Broadway run. The unique backstage wind machine, imprinted with the original producer’s name and still used today, will also be shipped across the Atlantic.”

Little else has been released about the New York run, including talent and premiere dates.

“There can be no better way to mark today’s milestone in The Mousetrap’s illustrious run, than to look ahead to a production in New York,” said Spiegel. “I feel after the longest out of town try-out in history, The Mousetrap is finally ready to transfer to Broadway!”

The play is a murder mystery set at the Monkswell Manor guesthouse. Richard Attenborough originated the lead role of Detective Sergeant Trotter and his wife, Sheila Sim, played the guesthouse owner. The play was also recently featured in the film See How They Run. The film is a murder mystery inside a murder mystery starring Saoirse Ronan, Ruth Wilson, Adrien Brody, David Oyelowo and Sam Rockwell.