King Richard II, 1940

The run closed April 27, 1940

Opened

April 1, 1940

Closed

April 27, 1940

Performances

32

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

St. James Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 407th 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

1937	St James Theatre Return-Engagement · Margaret Webster	38 perf.
1951	City Center Revival · Margaret Webster	15 perf.
1956	Winter Garden Theatre Revival · Michael Benthall	27 perf.

Who was in it26 named

John Barclay
Franz Bendtsen
June Brown
Donald Cameron
Frederic Carney
Charles Dalton
Jessie Dimond
Lauren Gilbert
Evelyn Hope
John Mcquade
Alex Nicol
Melvin Parks
Alfred Paschall
Jackson Perkins
Donald Randolph
Kurt Richards
Everett Ripley
Emmett Rogers
Anthony Ross
Sydney Smith
Howard Wierum
Rhys Williams
Izetta Jewel

3 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 23 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

Maurice Evans

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.