The run closed June 9, 2019
- Opened
- April 4, 2019
- Closed
- June 9, 2019
- Performances
- 76
- Previews
- 34
- Theatre
- James Earl Jones Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 254th 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. |
| 2004 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Jonathan Miller | 33 perf. |
Who was in it10 named
Glenda Jackson
Elizabeth Marvel
John Douglas Thompson
Ruth Wilson
Stephanie Roth Haberle
Russell Harvard
Daniel Marmion
3 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 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
- Sam Gold
- Producer
- Scott Rudin
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.