Theatre Register

Antigone, 1946

Shows · Cort Theatre, 1946

Original BroadwayJames Earl Jones Theatre 64 performances

The run closed May 4, 1946

Opened
February 18, 1946
Closed
May 4, 1946
Performances
64
Previews
Theatre
James Earl Jones Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 299th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Antigone 1 more that season

1971 Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · John Hirsch 46 perf.

Who was in it13 named

Cedric Hardwicke
Wesley Addy
Albert Biondo
Horace Braham
Oliver Cliff
Michael Higgins
Merle Maddern
Ruth Matteson
David J Stewart
Marlon Brando
Eveline Vaughan

2 of these 13 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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
Guthrie McClintic
Producer
Katharine Cornell

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. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • No recording is held for Antigone at all.
  • No show page for Antigone. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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