Darkness at Noon, 1951

The run closed June 23, 1951

Opened

January 13, 1951

Closed

June 23, 1951

Performances

186

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Neil Simon Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 149th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it21 named

Claude Rains
Kim Hunter
Walter J Palance
Tony Ancona
Geoffrey Barr
Henry Beckman
Robert Crozier
Maurice Gosfield
Johnson Hayes
Virginia Howard
Robert Keith Jr
Will Kuluva
Adams Macdonald
Lois Nettleton
Daniel Polis
Herbert Ratner
Allan Rich
Richard Seff

3 of these 21 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 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

Producer

The Playwrights' Company

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 Darkness at Noon at all.
• No director named.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.