The Play That Goes Wrong
| The Play That Goes Wrong | |
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Official artwork for the West End production transfer to the Duchess Theatre | |
| Original title | The Murder Before Christmas |
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| Date premiered | 4 December 2012 |
| Place premiered | Old Red Lion Theatre |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Comedy |
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The Play That Goes Wrong is a play by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre Company. The story follows a performance of a murder mystery, where the ill-fated theatre company encounters numerous mishaps.
The original production has been running since 2012 in London, where it won Best New Comedy at the 2015 Laurence Olivier Awards. Since 2014, the play has undertaken five tours of the UK, and a Broadway production ran from 2017–2019 and then continued off-Broadway.