The run closed February 12, 1969
- Opened
- November 7, 1968
- Closed
- February 12, 1969
- Performances
- 72
- Previews
- 4
- Theatre
- Vivian Beaumont Theater
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 231st 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. |
| 1956 | City Center Revival · Orson Welles | 21 perf. |
| 2004 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Jonathan Miller | 33 perf. |
| 2019 | Cort Theatre Revival · Sam Gold | 76 perf. |
Who was in it38 named
Ruth Attaway
Ren Auberjonois
Gerry Black
Samual Blue Jr
Virgilia Chew
Charles Cioffi
Lee J Cobb
James Cook
John Devlin
Stan Dworkin
Stephen Elliott
Barnett Epstein
Brendan Fay
Mervyn Haines
Douglas Hayle
Martin Herzer
Stacy Keach
Robert Levine
Marilyn Lightstone
Don Mchenry
Judith Mihalyi
Robert Molock
Bill Moor
William Myers
Robert Phalen
Paul Rudd
Tom Sawyer
Joseph Schroer
Robert Stattel
Jean Pierre Stewart
Ray Stewart
Barbette Tweed
Susan Tyrrell
Ronald Weyand
4 of these 38 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 34 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
- Gerald Freedman
- Producer
- Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center (under the direction of Jules Irving)
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.