Magenta Theater presents “Murder on the Orient Express”

Magenta Theater presents “Murder on the Orient Express,” Oct. 14 through 30 at 1108 Main St., Vancouver. Eleven performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 28, and 29 and at 2 p.m. Oct. 16, 23, and 30. A special performance featuring the understudy actors will take place at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27. Tickets for all shows are $20 in advance or $22 at the door. Purchase tickets at www.magentatheater.com, call the box office at 360-949-3098 or email tickets@magentatheater.com.

A luxury train trapped in a snowdrift. A dining car full of glamorous passengers. A dead body with multiple stab wounds. A suspicious intruder who keeps disappearing, and mysterious links to a far-distant murder case. A golden-age detective story springs to life from the pages of one of the world’s best-selling authors, Agatha Christie, in “Murder on the Orient Express.” Hercule Poirot, the world’s greatest detective, must interrupt his holiday to solve this fiendishly intricate and clever plot—before the snow is cleared and the train moves on. With him aboard the train is a colorful cast of characters: a doctor, a governess, an exiled princess and her companion, a businessman and his secretary, a housewife, a soldier, and others…all who have a motive in the murder.