The run closed April 18, 2004
- Opened
- March 4, 2004
- Closed
- April 18, 2004
- Performances
- 33
- Previews
- 16
- Theatre
- Vivian Beaumont Theater
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 331st 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. |
| 1968 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Gerald Freedman | 72 perf. |
| 2019 | Cort Theatre Revival · Sam Gold | 76 perf. |
Who was in it28 named
James Blendick
Domini Blythe
Caroline Bootle
William Cain
Benedict Campbell
Geraint Wyn Davies
Ian Deakin
David Furr
Douglas Harmsen
Claire Jullien
Leo Leyden
Matt Loney
Barry Macgregor
Quentin Mare
Christopher Mchale
Paul O Brien
Lucy Peacock
Andy Prosky
Christopher Randolph
Stephen Russell
Brian Sgambati
Eric Sheffer Stevens
Baylen Thomas
Brian Tree
Susan Wilder
3 of these 28 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
- Jonathan Miller
- Producer
- The Stratford Festival of Canada
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.