Rachel Wagstaff & Duncan Abel's Sherlock Holmes Eyes Broadway Bow in 2017

Sherlock Holmes is eyeing Broaday in 2017! It’s a bit early for cast, dates and theater details, but the new play will be by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel. We are naturally dreaming that current TV Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch, soon to be seen in Hamlet in London, will take the title role.

The show will be staged as a mystery within a mystery, with the case presented to Holmes forcing him to confront his murky past.  But is the unraveling of his childhood just a dangerous diversion? Sherlock Holmes is an original tale which will offer a new and theatrical exploration of the mind of the famous detective, while remaining faithful to the mysterious world created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The characters and stories of Sherlock Holmes were first introduced in Conan Doyle’s 1887 novel A Study in Scarlet. Conan Doyle went on to feature Sherlock Holmes in three more novels (including The Hound of the Baskervilles) and in 56 short stories. The famous detective made his first appearance on Broadway in 1899. In recent years, the property has been updated into hits with modern twists, as in the Emmy- winning BBC series Sherlock starring Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, the Guy Ritchie films starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law and the hit CBS transfer Elementary starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu. Broadway alums Ian McKellen and Laura Linney will headline the upcoming 2015 feature film Mr. Holmes.