King Richard II, 1937

The run closed October 16, 1937

Opened

September 15, 1937

Closed

October 16, 1937

Performances

38

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

St. James Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 541st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of King Richard II 3 more that season

1940	St James Theatre Revival · Margaret Webster	32 perf.
1951	City Center Revival · Margaret Webster	15 perf.
1956	Winter Garden Theatre Revival · Michael Benthall	27 perf.

Who was in it24 named

Wesley Addy
A G Andrews
Lee Baker
Neal Berry
Vernon Crane
Charles Dalton
Jessie Dimond
Reynolds Evans
Lionel Hogarth
Betty Jenckes
Julia Lathrop
Winston O Keefe
Donald Randolph
Richard Rauber
Everett Ripley
Emmett Rogers
Arthur L Sachs
Sydney G Smith
Irene Tedrow
Rhys Williams
Frederic Worlock

3 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 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

Margaret Webster

Producer

Eddie Dowling

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