The run closed January 23, 1960
- Opened
- October 18, 1959
- Closed
- January 23, 1960
- Performances
- 112
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Nederlander Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 202nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Heartbreak House 4 more that season
| 1920 | Garrick Theatre Original · Dudley Digges | 125 perf. |
| 1938 | Mercury Theatre Revival | 48 perf. |
| 1983 | Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Anthony Page | 65 perf. |
| 2006 | American Airlines Theatre Revival · Robin Lefèvre | 79 perf. |
Who was in it12 named
Pamela Brown
Diane Cilento
Dennis Price
Alan Webb
Diana Wynyard
Sorrell Booke
Patrick Horgan
Jane Rose
Hugh Franklin
Barbara Lord
2 of these 12 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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
- Harold Clurman
- Producer
- Maurice Evans
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 Heartbreak House at all.
- No show page for Heartbreak House. 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.