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Still Ticking: The Mousetrap, Running For 67 Years In London, Gets Set To Resume After Its COVID Pause

For 427 days, an old wooden board inside the foyer of St Martin’s Theatre in London was stuck on the number 28,199. It had ticked upwards every night for 67 years, logging the number of performances of the longest -running play in the world. But on March 16, 2020, The Mousetrap paused for breath. This seemingly immovable object met an unstoppable force: the coronavirus pandemic. – The Stage

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