Julius Caesar, 1937

The run closed May 28, 1938

Opened

November 11, 1937

Closed

May 28, 1938

Performances

157

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Mercury Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 165th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Julius Caesar 17 more that season

1794	John Street Theatre Original
1864	Winter Garden Theatre Revival	1 perf.
1902	Herald Square Theatre Revival	50 perf.
1906	Academy Of Music Revival
1907	Garden Theatre Revival
1910	Garden Theatre Revival
1911	Dalys Theatre Revival
1915	44th Street Theatre Revival
1917	44th Street Theatre Revival
1918	Cort Theatre Revival	1 perf.
1922	48th Street Theatre Revival
1927	New Amsterdam Theatre Revival · John Craig	8 perf.
1930	Shubert Theatre Revival
1931	Royale Theatre Revival
1950	Arena Theatre Revival · Dan Levin	31 perf.
2005	Belasco Theatre Revival · Daniel Sullivan	81 perf.
2005	Lyric Theatre Original

Who was in it20 named

Evelyn Allen
Arthur Anderson
Muriel Brassler
Grover Burgess
Francis Carpenter
Joseph Cotten
George Coulouris
George Duthie
Joseph Holland
William Mowry
Ted Reid
John A Willard
Alice Frost
Edmond O Brien

6 of these 20 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 14 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

Hiram Sherman

Producer

Orson Welles

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 Julius Caesar at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.