The Father, 1789

The run dates incomplete

Opened

September 7, 1789

Closed

Unknown

Performances

4

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

John Street Theatre

Of the 3 productions we hold that opened in the 1780s and carry a performance count, this is the 1st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. At this distance that most likely means nobody wrote down when it ended, rather than that the run went on.

Other stagings of The Father 7 more that season

1928	Belmont Theatre Revival · Alan Dinehart	8 perf.
1949	Cort Theatre Revival · Raymond Massey	69 perf.
1962	Cort Theatre Revival · Bengt Ekerot	3 perf.
1981	Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Göran Graffman	29 perf.
1996	Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Clifford Williams	52 perf.
2016	Tom Stoppard Theatre Original
2016	Samuel J Friedman Theatre Revival · Doug Hughes	78 perf.

Who was in it12 named

Charles Biddle
Lewis Hallam
Mrs Harper
Joseph Harper
John Henry
Maria Storer Henry
Mr Lake
Elizabeth Morris
Mr Ryan
Eliza Tuke
Thomas Wignell
Stephen Woolls

0 of these 12 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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.

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 Father at all.
• When it closed.
• No director named.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.