The Infernal Machine, 1958

The run closed March 9, 1958

Opened

February 3, 1958

Closed

March 9, 1958

Performances

40

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Phoenix Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 345th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it17 named

Jacob Ben Ami
Roberts Blossom
Peter Brandon
Claude Dauphin
Earle Hyman
John Kerr
Kimetha Laurie
Albert Paulson
Bill Penn
Byrne Piven
Joey Renda
Martin Rudy

5 of these 17 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.

Creative team

Director

Herbert Berghof

Producer

The Phoenix Theatre (T. Edward Hambleton: Co-Founder and Managing Director; Norris Houghton: Co-Founder)

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