The world’s longest-running play is right here in Stafford County. Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has landed at the Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, bringing its snowstorm, strangers, and shocking murder mystery to Fredericksburg audiences through August 23.

Uriah Kiser sat down with two of the stars: Mia Gomez-Montero, making her Riverside debut as Molly Ralston, and longtime Riverside regular Kevin Cleary as her stage husband Giles. Fresh off a master’s from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Mia talks about shifting from musicals into pure mystery, perfecting a rock-solid British accent, and discovering that Molly and Giles could almost be the Maitlands from Beetlejuice. Kevin, who previously played Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar and Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, explains what it’s like to flip from detect ...