The run closed February 3, 1951
- Opened
- December 25, 1950
- Closed
- February 3, 1951
- Performances
- 48
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Nederlander Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 313th 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 | |
| 1947 | New Century Theatre Revival · Donald Wolfit | 8 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 it28 named
Wesley Addy
Mitchell Agruss
Guy Arbury
Ted Baden
E J Ballantine
Michael Bay
Jack Bittner
Louis Calhern
Nina Foch
Macgregor Gibb
Sam Gilman
Henry Leonard
Richard Malek
Nehemiah Persoff
Bernard Pollock
Thomas Poston
Jack Ramsey
Kurt Richards
Earl F Simmons
Keith Taylor
Jo van Fleet
Martin Waldron
Frederic Warriner
Joseph Wiseman
4 of these 28 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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
- John Houseman
- Producer
- Robert L. Joseph
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.