Shear Madness

Shear Madness
Shear Madness set at the Kennedy Center
Written byPaul Pörtner
Date premiered 1963 (1963-MM)
Place premieredUlmer Theatre
Ulm, Germany
Original languageGerman
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Shear Madness is an interactive whodunit play, and one of the longest-running nonmusical plays in the world.[1] On January 29, 2020, the Boston cast celebrated its 40th anniversary (the show's 12,580th performance) at The Charles Playhouse Stage II.[2] The show's Boston instantiation closed on March 15, 2020.[3]

  1. ^ STAGE REVIEW: Shear Madness - Consistently Different, The Tech
  2. ^ Bass, Emily (27 December 2019). "Four Decades of Madness". bostonguide.com. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  3. ^ Shear Madness to Close after 40 years. Boston Globe, March 12, 2020.