Review: Keegan Theatre’s “The Play That Goes Wrong” Is a Madcap Murder Mystery

The Play That Goes Wrong, now playing at the Keegan Theatre, amusingly subverts classic murder mystery tropes by merrily mixing the physical comedy of the Three Stooges with the verbal intricacy of the Marx Brothers. This frenetically and madcap play conveys the double-entendre of Charlie Chan and the mass appeal of detectives we have all come to know through literature and film (for, indeed, the marvelous Matthew Pauli does a superb job of portraying “Chris” as Inspector Carter-- who reminded me of an absent-minded  Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple).

_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/washington-dc/article/Review-THE-PLAY-THAT-GOES-WRONG-at-Keegan-Theatre-20260617)._