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Martin Balsam

Shows · Martin Balsam

ActorOn stage 19411977

On stage 11 productions, 36 years

1941 Ghost for Sale Dalys 63rd Street Theatre · Original · directed by Ilya Motyleff 6 perf.
1947 The Wanhope Building Princess Theatre · Original · directed by Brett Warren 5 perf.
1948 Macbeth National Theatre · Revival · directed by Norris Houghton 29 perf.
1948 Sundown Beach Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Elia Kazan 7 perf.
1950 The Liar Broadhurst Theatre · Revival · directed by Alfred Drake 12 perf.
1951 The Rose Tattoo Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by Daniel Mann 306 perf.
1953 Camino Real National Theatre · Original · directed by Elia Kazan 60 perf.
1956 Middle of the Night Anta Playhouse · Original 477 perf.
1962 Nowhere To Go But Up Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by Sidney Lumet 9 perf.
1967 You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running Ambassador Theatre · Original · directed by Alan Schneider 756 perf.
1977 Cold Storage Lyceum Theatre · Original · directed by Frank Corsaro 180 perf.

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Worked with more than once8 names

Vivian Nathan 2 productions
Russell Collins 2 productions
Nehemiah Persoff 2 productions
Julie Harris 2 productions
Eli Wallach 2 productions
Blair Cutting 2 productions
Beatrice Straight 2 productions
Anne Hegira 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 6 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

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