The Play That Goes Wrong

The Play That Goes Wrong
Official artwork for the West End production transfer to the Duchess Theatre
Original title	The Murder Before Christmas
Written by	Henry Lewis Jonathan Sayer Henry Shields
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.^[1] Since 2014, the play has undertaken five tours of the UK, and a Broadway production ran from 2017–2019 and then continued off-Broadway.