Shear Madness
| Shear Madness | |
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Shear Madness set at the Kennedy Center | |
| Written by | Paul Pörtner |
| Date premiered | 1963 |
| Place premiered | Theater Ulm Ulm, Germany |
| Original language | German |
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Shear Madness is an interactive whodunit play, and one of the longest-running nonmusical plays in the world. The Boston production ran from 1980 to 2020 at the Charles Playhouse Stage II. A second production began in 1987 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is currently running.
Shear Madness is based on the German-language play Scherenschnitt which was written by Paul Pörtner (1925–1984) and first performed at the Theater Ulm in Ulm, Germany in 1963.