King Lear, 1956

The run closed January 29, 1956

Opened

January 12, 1956

Closed

January 29, 1956

Performances

21

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

City Center

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 463rd 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.
1950	National Theatre Revival · John Houseman	48 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 it27 named

Art Alisi
David Anthony
Jack Aronson
Julian Barry
Robert Blackburn
Sorrell Booke
Francis Carpenter
John Colicos
Thayer David
Roy Dean
Richard Edelman
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Richard Hill
Viveca Lindfors
Walter Mathews
Kenneth Mays
Thomas Newman
Lou Perri
James T Pritchett
Don Ratka
Lester Rawlins
Sylvia Short
Robert Weaver
Michael Yuda

3 of these 27 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

Orson Welles

Producer

New York City Center Theatre Company (Jean Dalrymple: Director)

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.