Checkmates, 1988

The run closed December 31, 1988

Opened

August 4, 1988

Closed

December 31, 1988

Performances

172

Previews

16

Theatre

Richard Rodgers Theatre

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 103rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it4 named

Ruby Dee
Marsha Jackson
Paul Winfield

1 of these 4 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 3 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Woodie King, Jr.

Producer

James M. Nederlander

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for Checkmates at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.