Theatre Register

Darkness at Noon, 1951

Shows · Alvin Theatre, 1951

Original BroadwayNeil Simon Theatre 186 performances

The run closed June 23, 1951

Opened
January 13, 1951
Closed
June 23, 1951
Performances
186
Previews
Theatre
Neil Simon Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 148th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it21 named

Claude Rains
Kim Hunter
Walter J Palance
Tony Ancona
Geoffrey Barr
Henry Beckman
Robert Crozier
Maurice Gosfield
Johnson Hayes
Virginia Howard
Robert Keith Jr
Will Kuluva
Adams Macdonald
Lois Nettleton
Daniel Polis
Herbert Ratner
Allan Rich
Alexander Scourby
Richard Seff

2 of these 21 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 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

Producer
The Playwrights' Company

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 Darkness at Noon at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for Darkness at Noon. 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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