Original Creative Team

Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and, in many languages, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 66 crime novels, 150 short stories, over 20 plays, and six novels written under the name Mary Westmacott. Her work includes Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and the genre-defining And Then There Were None.

Witness for the Prosecution was first performed at the Winter Garden Theatre, London in 1953. Directed by Wallace Douglas with Set Design by Michael Weight. It was subsequently produced at the Henry Miller Theatre in New York in 1954, directed by Robert Lewis with sets by Raymond Stover and costumes by Kathryn Miller.