The run closed June 15, 1946
- Opened
- June 3, 1946
- Closed
- June 15, 1946
- Performances
- 16
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- City Center
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 534th 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 | |
| 1931 | Broadhurst Theatre Revival | 28 perf. |
| 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. |
| 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 it19 named
Robert Berger
Blanche Collins
Booth Colman
Whitfield Connor
Lili Darvas
Alan Dreeben
Thomas Gomez
William Lemassena
Alexander Lockwood
Richard Newton
Howard Otway
Frances Reid
Victor Rendina
Emmett Rogers
Leon Shaw
Harry Sheppard
Victor Thorley
William Weber
1 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 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
- George Schaefer
- Producer
- Michael Todd
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 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.