King Lear, 1950

The run closed February 3, 1951

Opened

December 25, 1950

Closed

February 3, 1951

Performances

48

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Nederlander Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 314th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of King Lear 18 more that season

1754	Nassau Street Theatre Original
1905	Garden Theatre Revival
1906	Academy Of Music Revival
1907	Lyric Theatre Revival
1909	New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1911	Dalys Theatre Revival
1915	44th Street Theatre Revival
1917	44th Street Theatre Revival
1918	44th Street Theatre Revival
1923	Earl Carroll Theatre Revival	2 perf.
1930	Shubert Theatre Revival
1947	New Century Theatre Revival · Donald Wolfit	8 perf.
1956	City Center Revival · Orson Welles	21 perf.
1968	Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Gerald Freedman	72 perf.
2004	Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Jonathan Miller	33 perf.
2018	Tom Stoppard Theatre Original
2019	Cort Theatre Revival · Sam Gold	76 perf.
2023	Wyndham's Theatre Original

Who was in it28 named

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

4 of these 28 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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

John Houseman

Producer

Robert L. Joseph

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