Bergen Investigates “Murder on the Nile”

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Tuesday, November 18 2025 @ 09:19 am

PARAMUS, N.J. – A production of Agatha Christie’s classic murder-mystery, “Murder on the Nile,” will take place in December as part of the Bergen Community College Bergen Institute for the Creative Arts and Bergenstages theatrical performance season. The show will premiere on Friday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Anna Maria Ciccone Theatre at Bergen’s main campus in Paramus (400 Paramus Road).

Directed by Bergen professor Jim Bumgardner, the play follows Kay Ridgeway, a woman blessed with beauty, wealth and a new husband with whom she honeymoons along the Nile River. Her world is turned upside down when a brutal murder shatters the idyllic setting. With a wide cast of suspects, each with their own sinister motive, this story is rife with tension and nail-biting twists.

Performances will take place on Friday, December 5; Saturday, December 6; Thursday, December 11; Friday, December 12; and Saturday, December 13 at 7:30 p.m. Matinee performances will take place on Saturday, December 6 and Saturday, December 13 at 2 p.m. Audiences are invited to attend a special post-show audience talk-back immediately following the December 11 performance.

Tickets are $18 for general admission, $12 for seniors (age 65+) and $5 for all students. For seats, visit tickets.bergen.edu or call (201) 447-7428.

Based in Paramus, Bergen Community College (www.bergen.edu), a public two-year coeducational college, enrolls more than 13,000 students at locations in Paramus, the Philip Ciarco Jr. Learning Center in Hackensack and Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands in Lyndhurst. The College offers associate degree, certificate and continuing education programs in a variety of fields. More students graduate from Bergen than any other community college in the state.

Photo caption: Hailey Questal as Kay Mostyn, Alex Rivezzi as Simon Mostyn and Maggie Winick as Jacqueline de Severac.