The run closed January 29, 1956
- Opened
- January 12, 1956
- Closed
- January 29, 1956
- Performances
- 21
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- City Center
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 462nd 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. |
| 1950 | National Theatre Revival · John Houseman | 48 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 it27 named
Art Alisi
David Anthony
Jack Aronson
Julian Barry
Robert Blackburn
Sorrell Booke
Robert Burr
Francis Carpenter
John Colicos
Thayer David
Roy Dean
Richard Edelman
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Richard Hill
Viveca Lindfors
Walter Mathews
Kenneth Mays
Thomas Newman
Lou Perri
James T Pritchett
Don Ratka
Lester Rawlins
Sylvia Short
Robert Weaver
Michael Yuda
2 of these 27 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 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
- Orson Welles
- Producer
- New York City Center Theatre Company (Jean Dalrymple: Director)
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.