The run closed October 16, 1937
- Opened
- September 15, 1937
- Closed
- October 16, 1937
- Performances
- 38
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- St James Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 540th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of King Richard II 3 more that season
| 1940 | St James Theatre Revival · Margaret Webster | 32 perf. |
| 1951 | City Center Revival · Margaret Webster | 15 perf. |
| 1956 | Winter Garden Theatre Revival · Michael Benthall | 27 perf. |
Who was in it24 named
Wesley Addy
A G Andrews
Lee Baker
Neal Berry
Vernon Crane
Charles Dalton
Jessie Dimond
Reynolds Evans
Lionel Hogarth
Betty Jenckes
Julia Lathrop
Winston O Keefe
Donald Randolph
Richard Rauber
Everett Ripley
Emmett Rogers
Arthur L Sachs
Sydney G Smith
Irene Tedrow
Rhys Williams
Frederic Worlock
3 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 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
- Margaret Webster
- Producer
- Eddie Dowling
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 Richard II at all.
- No show page for King Richard II. 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.