Shows · King Lear · National Theatre, 1950

King Lear, 1950

Opened December 25, 1950

Closed February 3, 1951

48 performances

Nederlander Theatre

Revival

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1950s, this had the 314th longest run.

Other stagings of King Lear 18 more

1754

Nassau Street TheatreBroadway Original

1905

Garden TheatreBroadway Revival

1906

Academy Of MusicBroadway Revival

1907

Lyric TheatreBroadway Revival

1909

New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway Revival

1911

Dalys TheatreBroadway Revival

1915

44th Street TheatreBroadway Revival

1917

44th Street TheatreBroadway Revival

1918

44th Street TheatreBroadway Revival

1923

Earl Carroll TheatreBroadway Revival

2 performances

1930

Shubert TheatreBroadway Revival

1947

New Century TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Donald Wolfit

8 performances

1956

City CenterBroadway Revival, directed by Orson Welles

21 performances

1968

Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway Revival, directed by Gerald Freedman

72 performances

2004

Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway Revival, directed by Jonathan Miller

33 performances

2018

Tom Stoppard TheatreLondon Original

2019

Cort TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Sam Gold

76 performances

2023

Wyndham's TheatreLondon Original

Who was in it28 named

Edith Atwater

Martin Gabel

Norman Lloyd1914–2021

Arnold Moss1910–1989

Wesley Addy
Mitchell Agruss
Guy Arbury
Ted Baden
E J Ballantine
Michael Bay
Jack Bittner
Louis Calhern
Nina Foch
Macgregor Gibb
Sam Gilman
Henry Leonard
Richard Malek
Nehemiah Persoff
Bernard Pollock
Thomas Poston
Jack Ramsey
Kurt Richards
Earl F Simmons
Keith Taylor
Jo van Fleet
Martin Waldron
Frederic Warriner
Joseph Wiseman

Creative team

Director: John Houseman
Producer: Robert L. Joseph

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