The Mousetrap

Christie’s plays included The Mousetrap (1952), which set a world record for the longest continuous run at one theater (8,862 performances—more than 21 years—at the Ambassadors Theatre, London) before moving in 1974 to St. Martin’s Theatre, where it continued without a break until the COVID-19 pandemic closed theaters…

In London The Mousetrap, a dramatization of a thriller by Agatha Christie, ran for more than 50 years.