TAMWORTH — It isn’t summer in Tamworth without an Agatha Christie production from The Barnstormers Theatre. This year, the company is presenting a first for them: “Spider’s Web.”
“Spider’s Web,” which opened Thursday with performances through Aug. 17, was written in 1953, upon the request of actor Margaret Lockwood, who wanted to appear in a play on London’s West End that was against her usual sinister or wicked type.
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