The Mousetrap extends its St Martin's booking to July 2027 as it turns 75
The Mousetrap will now play at St Martin's Theatre until 18 July 2027, with tickets on sale as the world's longest running play approaches its 75th anniversary.
The Mousetrap has extended its booking at St Martin's Theatre through to 18 July 2027. The producers put the extension down to demand, and it carries Agatha Christie's thriller past a milestone few plays ever reach: in November it enters its 75th year. Tickets are on sale now.
The current company, playing until 7 November, is Saranna Parlone as Mollie Ralston, Ben Riddle as Giles Ralston, Stefan Chanyaem as Christopher Wren, Joanne Henry as Mrs Boyle, James Staddon as Major Metcalf, Anna Rawlings as Miss Casewell, Dugald Bruce-Lockhart as Mr Paravicini and Ben Galvin as Detective Sgt. Trotter, with Nancy Doubledee, Bella Farr, Barnaby Jago, Richard Parnwell and Clive Marlowe completing the cast.
The anniversary will not pass quietly at the theatre itself. St Martin's is to undergo a series of enhancements, with its public rooms redecorated, the stalls, dress circle and upper circle bars replaced, and a new foyer bar added, work the producers frame as part of the conservation of the listed building as much as an upgrade for audiences.
Some numbers are worth repeating. The play opened in 1952 and has run in the West End ever since, more than 74 years and counting. Last year it passed its 30,000th performance and collected a Guinness World Records certificate for the longest theatrical run.
The story has not aged either: news of a murder in London reaches Monkswell Manor, a remote guesthouse where seven strangers are snowed in together, and the arrival of a police sergeant tells them the killer is already among them. One by one their pasts come out.
The Mousetrap is produced by Brian Fenty and directed by Denise Silvey, with casting by Ellie Collyer-Bristow CDG. It runs 2 hours 20 minutes and tickets start at £25 at St Martin's Theatre, West Street, London WC2H 9NZ.
Performances are Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm, with Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday matinees at 3pm. From Monday 9 November the schedule changes: Monday at 7.30pm, Tuesday and Thursday at 7pm, and Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 3pm and 7.30pm. There are no performances on 24 and 25 December or on 31 January, and a separate Christmas schedule runs from 21 December.