Heidi Armbruster

Oct 12, 2023 | mercurynews.com | David Chavez |David John Chávez |Heidi Armbruster

Parsing Agatha Christie’s existence in her home country of England 100 years ago is an obsession for those who buy tickets to the annual Festival in her honor, an event for glimmering tea sippers displaying earnest pinky-up energy. For an extra fee, one can opt into the deluxe “Murder on the Orient Express Package,” in which folks consumed with the prolific detective writer can snap snaps and instantly Instagram with the deliciously crafted, mustachioed confections of Hercule Poirot.

Oct 5, 2023 | mercurynews.com | Sam Hurwitt |Heidi Armbruster

It’s been a little over a hundred years since Agatha Christie burst onto the literary scene in 1920 with the first of her detective novels, introducing her eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Over the years her “cozy” mysteries have been much imitated, sometimes lampooned or reacted against by later waves of mystery writers, but they’ve also remained wildly popular. Guinness World Records names Christie the world’s best-selling fiction writer ever.

Apr 10, 2023 | broadwayworld.com | Mike Lew |A.A. Cristi |Heidi Armbruster

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has announced its 53rd season to be presented October 2023 through June 2024. The line-up will include a World Premiere musical tribute to one of theatre's greatest composers, a quirky Tony-winning musical directed by a Tony Award-winner, a laugh-out-loud take on tiger parenting, a West Coast Premiere investigating an unsolved mystery about a world-famed mystery writer, an acclaimed tour de force about an American icon playwright, and a high-stakes environmental drama.