Shows · Romeo and Juliet · 51st Street Theatre, 1940

Romeo and Juliet, 1940

Opened May 9, 1940

Closed June 8, 1940

36 performances

51st Street Theatre

Revival

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1940s, this had the 391st longest run.

Other stagings of Romeo and Juliet 26 more

1754

New TheatreBroadway Original

1869

Booths TheatreBroadway Revival

1899

Empire TheatreBroadway Revival

1904

Knickerbocker TheatreBroadway Revival

1905

Knickerbocker TheatreBroadway Revival

1907

Lyric TheatreBroadway Revival

1909

New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway Revival

1910

Academy Of MusicBroadway Revival

1911

Dalys TheatreBroadway Revival

1912

Manhattan Opera HouseBroadway Revival

1913

Manhattan Opera HouseBroadway Revival

1915

44th Street TheatreBroadway Revival

1918

44th Street TheatreBroadway Revival

1922

48th Street TheatreBroadway Revival

1923

Henry Millers TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Frank Reicher

157 performances

1930

Civic Repertory TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Eva Le Gallienne

16 performances

1934

Martin Beck TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Guthrie McClintic

77 performances

1935

Martin Beck TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Martha Graham

15 performances

1951

Broadhurst TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Peter Glenville

49 performances

1956

Winter Garden TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Robert Helpmann

29 performances

1962

City CenterBroadway Revival, directed by Franco Zeffirelli

1977

Circle In The Square TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Theodore Mann

77 performances

1986

Belasco TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Estelle Parsons

2004

Playhouse TheatreLondon Original

2013

Richard Rodgers TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by David Leveaux

93 performances

2024

Tom Stoppard TheatreLondon Original

Who was in it36 named

Vivien Leigh1913–1967

Virginia Burchfield
Mary Kane
Patricia Knight
Nancie B Marsland
Charles Prescott
Howard Stark
Wesley Addy
William Barrows
Ralph Brooke
Walter Brooke
Hazel Brown
Oliver Cliff
Frank Downing
H Robert Edwards
Brant Gorman
Wilton Graff
Ralph Grayson
Earle Grey
Halliwell Hobbes
Barbara Horder
Raymond Johnson
Alexander Knox
Charles Martin
Jack Merivale
Nan Merriman
Edmond O Brien
Tileston Perry
Joan Shepard
Clara Speer
Morton L Stevens
John Straub
Joseph Tomes
Katherine Warren
Ben Webster
Dame May Whitty

Creative team

Director: Robert Ross
Producer: Laurence Olivier

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