The run closed January 10, 1959
- Opened
- December 16, 1958
- Closed
- January 10, 1959
- Performances
- 14
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadway Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 531st 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 it35 named
Joss Ackland
Robert Algar
John Bonney
Peggy Butt
Peter Cellier
Margaret Courtenay
James Culliford
Michael Culver
David Dodimead
Jane Downs
Simon Fraser
David Gardner
John Gay
Jennie Goossens
Timothy Harley
Gerald Harper
Douglas Harris
Peter Hodgson
John Humphry
Harold Innocent
Barbara Jefford
Ursula Jenkins
Thomas Johnston
Dudley Jones
Barbara Leigh Hunt
Dyson Lovell
James Mellor
John Neville
Oliver Neville
Joseph O Conor
Roy Patrick
Job Stewart
Crispian Woodgate
Richard Wordsworth
William Young
0 of these 35 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 35 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
- Michael Benthall
- Producer
- Old Vic Trust, Ltd.
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.