The run closed February 26, 1949
- Opened
- February 8, 1949
- Closed
- February 26, 1949
- Performances
- 23
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Booth Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 475th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of King Richard III 16 more that season
| 1821 | African Grove Revival | |
| 1825 | Park Theatre Revival | |
| 1904 | Princess Theatre Revival | |
| 1905 | New Amsterdam Theatre Revival | |
| 1906 | New Amsterdam Theatre Revival | |
| 1907 | New Amsterdam Theatre Revival | |
| 1908 | Bijou Theatre Revival | 8 perf. |
| 1909 | New Amsterdam Theatre Revival | |
| 1911 | Dalys Theatre Revival | |
| 1915 | 44th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1917 | 44th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1918 | 44th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1920 | Plymouth Theatre Revival | 27 perf. |
| 1930 | Shubert Theatre Revival | |
| 1943 | Forrest Theatre Revival · George Coulouris | 11 perf. |
| 1979 | Cort Theatre Revival · David Wheeler | 31 perf. |
Who was in it22 named
Grace Coppin
Frances Reid
Warren Burmeister
Robert Carricart
David Clive
Joseph Foley
Alan Frost
Robert H Harris
Ed Hoffman
Will Kuluva
Connie Lessard
William Nichols
Nehemiah Persoff
Orrin Redfield
Milton Selzer
Michael Sivy
Douglass Watson
Glenn Wilson
4 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 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
- Richard Barr
- Producer
- Herman Levin
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 III at all.
- No show page for King Richard III. 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.