Theatre Register

Hamlet, 1931

Shows · Broadhurst Theatre, 1931

Revival BroadwayBroadhurst Theatre 28 performances

The run closed November 28, 1931

Opened
November 5, 1931
Closed
November 28, 1931
Performances
28
Previews
Theatre
Broadhurst Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 620th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Hamlet 39 more that season

1761 Chapel Street Theatre Original
1865 Winter Garden Theatre Revival
1870 Olympic Theatre Revival · Asa Cushman 72 perf.
1900 Garden Theatre Revival · Fred Williams 16 perf.
1902 Garden Theatre Revival · Fred Williams 32 perf.
1904 Knickerbocker Theatre Revival · Johnston Forbes-Robertson 28 perf.
1905 New York Theatre Revival 1 perf.
1906 Academy Of Music Revival
1907 Lyric Theatre Revival
1908 Lyric Theatre Revival
1909 New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1910 Academy Of Music Revival
1911 Dalys Theatre Revival
1912 Wallacks Theatre Revival 1 perf.
1913 Manhattan Opera House Revival
1915 44th Street Theatre Revival
1917 44th Street Theatre Revival
1918 44th Street Theatre Revival
1919 Shubert Theatre Revival
1920 Shubert Theatre Revival
1922 Sam H Harris Theatre Revival 101 perf.
1923 Manhattan Opera House Revival 24 perf.
1925 Hampdens Theatre Revival 68 perf.
1930 Shubert Theatre Revival · Fritz Leiber
1934 44th Street Theatre Revival 8 perf.
1936 Empire Theatre Revival 132 perf.
1939 44th Street Theatre Revival · Margaret Webster 40 perf.
1945 Columbus Circle Revival · George Schaefer 131 perf.
1946 City Center Revival · George Schaefer 16 perf.
1947 New Century Theatre Revival · Donald Wolfit 2 perf.
1952 Ziegfeld Theatre Revival · Jean-Louis Barrault 8 perf.
1958 Broadway Theatre Revival · Michael Benthall 14 perf.
1961 Phoenix Theatre Revival · Stuart Vaughan 102 perf.
1964 Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival 137 perf.
1969 Lyceum Theatre Revival · Ellis Rabb 45 perf.
1975 Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Michael Rudman 47 perf.
1992 Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Paul Weidner 45 perf.
1995 Belasco Theatre Revival · Jonathan Kent 91 perf.
2009 Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Michael Grandage 72 perf.

Who was in it43 named

Jerome Andrews
Gloria Braggiotti
Gladys Burch
George Carr
Guy Collins
George Cotton
Tom Dougall
James Duffus
Helene Frederic
John Glenn
Edith Gresham
Ilse Gronau
Clifford Heckinger
John Holmes
David Horne
Ernest Howard
Stanley Howard
Irving Jackson
Celia Johnson
Wyman Kane
Colin Keith Johnston
Leopold Lane
Charles T Lewis
Marcia Linya
Robert Lowing
Raymond Massey
H H Mccollum
Burton Mcevilly
Catherine Meredith
John Daly Murphy
Leon Quartermaine
Herbert Ranson
Kitty Reese
Frank Rothe
Bernard Savage
Mary Servoss
Sydney Smith
Edmund Tabell
Felicia Terry
L M Tice
Anne Wessman
Jack White
Edward Wright

0 of these 43 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 43 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
New York Producing Association, Inc.

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 Hamlet at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for Hamlet. 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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