The run closed March 8, 1947
- Opened
- February 18, 1947
- Closed
- March 8, 1947
- Performances
- 8
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Century Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 640th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of King Lear 16 more that season
| 1754 | Nassau Street Theatre Original | |
| 1905 | Garden Theatre Revival | |
| 1906 | Academy Of Music Revival | |
| 1907 | Lyric Theatre Revival | |
| 1909 | New Amsterdam Theatre Revival | |
| 1911 | Dalys Theatre Revival | |
| 1915 | 44th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1917 | 44th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1918 | 44th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1923 | Earl Carroll Theatre Revival | 2 perf. |
| 1930 | Shubert Theatre Revival | |
| 1950 | National Theatre Revival · John Houseman | 48 perf. |
| 1956 | City Center Revival · Orson Welles | 21 perf. |
| 1968 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Gerald Freedman | 72 perf. |
| 2004 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Jonathan Miller | 33 perf. |
| 2019 | Cort Theatre Revival · Sam Gold | 76 perf. |
Who was in it15 named
Robert Algar
Kempster Barnes
Richard Blythe
George Bradford
Ann Chalkley
David Dodimead
Violet Farebrother
Alexander Gauge
Frederick Horrey
Rosalind Iden
Eric Maxon
Josef Shear
Malcolm Watson
Geoffrey Wilkinson
John Wynyard
0 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 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
- Donald Wolfit
- Producer
- Hall Shelton
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 King Lear at all.
- No show page for King Lear. 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.