AGATHA CHRISTIE’S
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
October 2 – October 26, 2025
Based on the book by Agatha Christie | Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig
Festival Stage | Recommended Ages 12+
A luxury locomotive, a confounding murder, and Agatha Christie’s most famous sleuth, Hercule Poirot.
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the fabled Orient Express in its tracks. By morning, an American businessman lies dead in his compartment, his door locked from the inside. Isolated by the snow and with a killer in their midst, world-famous detective Hercule Poirot must solve the case before the murderer strikes again. Book your passage now for this wickedly funny thrill ride.
SPECIAL EVENTS
ASF Insights | Oct. 4 | 12:45pm | Patrons Lobby | Free & Open to All
Agatha Christie, World Traveler of Mystery
Agatha Christie, the author of such far-flung detective novels as Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, was a world traveler.
This FREE presentation, with Professor Angela Fowler and Lecturer Michelle Aitken of Auburn University at Montgomery, will follow Christie’s travels from Cape Town to Baghdad to Waikiki — once riding on the real Orient Express — and discuss how it informed her detective novels.
Fowler and Aitken will cover Christie’s prominence in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction as one of the authors who established the rules of detective writing that are still used in everything from Knives Out to CSI, as well as her mysterious 11-day disappearance that caused a mass media frenzy in 1926.
Don’t miss this chance to enter the world of Agatha Christie!
Sponsored by Auburn University at Montgomery
The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
