The run closed February 4, 1951
- Opened
- January 24, 1951
- Closed
- February 4, 1951
- Performances
- 15
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- City Center
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 508th 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
| 1937 | St James Theatre Return-Engagement · Margaret Webster | 38 perf. |
| 1940 | St James Theatre Revival · Margaret Webster | 32 perf. |
| 1956 | Winter Garden Theatre Revival · Michael Benthall | 27 perf. |
Who was in it25 named
Joseph Dooley
Joseph Emmett
Reynolds Evans
Clement Fowler
Chris Gampel
John Glennon
Louis Hector
Cavada Humphrey
Patricia Jenkins
John Kirchnak
Theodore Marcuse
Hamilton Mott
June Prud Homme
Everett Ripley
Tom Hughes Sand
Kent Smith
Chester Stratton
John Straub
Porter van Zandt
Wendell Whitten
Frederic Worlock
4 of these 25 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
- New York City Theatre Company
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.