What is the longest-running play in theater history?
The longest-running play in theater history is The Mousetrap (1952) by Agatha Christie, which has never closed on the British stage.
It was adapted from one of Christie’s stories.
The longest-running play in theater history is The Mousetrap (1952) by Agatha Christie, which has never closed on the British stage.
It was adapted from one of Christie’s stories.
Four main collections of English mystery plays based on biblical episodes survive: The York Cycle (early fourteenth century), forty-eight plays The Towneley Cycle (mid-fourteenth—early fifteenth century), thirty-two plays The Chester Cycle (fourteenth century), twenty-four plays The Coventry (or N Town) Cycle (fifteenth century), forty-three plays
The author of Naked Lunch (1959) William Burroughs unsuccessfully attempted to shoot a glass off his wife’s head.
Theodor Seuss Geisel known as Dr. Seuss died on September 24, 1991, at age eighty-seven. Dr. Seuss had written about fifty books that sold more than 200 million copies. His last book, Oh, the Places You’ll Go (1990), was still on the bestseller list when he died.
The title of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars refers to the banner of the Irish Citizens Army, of which O’Casey was once a member. The play concerns members of the army before and during the Easter Rising in 1916.
No, the title character in Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar does not have a name.
A scrivener is a copier of legal documents.