The Play That Goes Wrong | April & May 2025

The longest-running comedy in London, the smash-hit Olivier and Tony-Award-winning The Play That Goes Wrong, is coming to New Zealand from 19 April -1 June, 2025.

A 1920s murder mystery, a cast of accident-prone actors, and a production where everything that can go wrong... does. The result? A night of theatre like no other, where the only mystery is how they’ll make it to the final curtain call.

Who murdered Charles Haversham? You'll have to see for yourself!

Wellington Opera House | 19–27 April
Tickets from Ticketmaster

New Plymouth TSB Showplace| 30 April–4 May
Tickets from Eventfinda

Christchurch James Hay Theatre | 6–11 May
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Auckland ASB Waterfront Theatre | 14 May–1 June
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Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the show is sure to delight whether you are 9 or 99. Tickets on sale now.

The show’s many achievements to date include:

• Over 3500 performances of The Play That Goes Wrong at the Duchess Theatre. 
• During the West End run, members of The Cornley Drama Society have been hit (by objects or each other) more than 125,545 times
• 106 actors have performed in the show’s Duchess Theatre run.
• The show has won 11 awards, including an Olivier, a Tony, and a Molière.
• There have been productions of the play in 49 countries and in every continent except Antarctica (where producers fear a frosty reception).
• More than 4,246,481 people have seen the show worldwide, and there have been 7,822 performances in the English language.
• An actor has shouted out for a ledger 54,747 times. (And that's only in English.)
• A total of 58,180 door slams in America alone.
• 8 million people watched the 2015 performance at The Royal Variety Performance, with a further 6.3 million seeing the clip on YouTube.
• 2,607 fire extinguishers have been used to put out fires in The Play That Goes Wrong somewhere in the world in these past ten years.
• Winston the Dog has been successfully located zero times.

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