The Crucible, 1953

The run closed July 11, 1953

Opened

January 22, 1953

Closed

July 11, 1953

Performances

197

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 141st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Crucible 5 more that season

1964	Belasco Theatre Revival · Jack Sydow	16 perf.
1972	Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · John Berry	44 perf.
1991	Belasco Theatre Revival · Yossi Yzraely	31 perf.
2002	Virginia Theatre Revival · Richard Eyre	101 perf.
2016	Walter Kerr Theatre Revival · Ivo van Hove	125 perf.

Who was in it26 named

Arthur Kennedy
Walter Hampden
E G Marshall
Beatrice Straight
Jean Adair
Janet Alexander
Jacqueline Andre
Raymond Bramley
Jenny Egan
Adele Fortin
Jane Hoffman
Dorothy Jolliffe
George Mitchell
Barbara Stanton
Fred Stewart
Joseph Sweeney
Graham Velsey
Ralph Bell
Chris Gampel
Nell Harrison
William Hussung
Judy Ratner

4 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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

Jed Harris

Producer

Kermit Bloomgarden

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