The Mousetrap has, after sixty years in the West End, gone on what its producers are billing its "first ever UK tour." That ignores entirely the history of the play which, before it ever reached the West End, was premiered at Nottingham Theatre Royal, then played six further regional dates (Oxford, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds and Birmingham) on a pre-West End tour, before arriving at the Ambassadors. �
SOURCE: The Stage at 02:00AM on September 14, 2012