The run closed July 15, 1979
- Opened
- June 14, 1979
- Closed
- July 15, 1979
- Performances
- 31
- Previews
- 28
- Theatre
- James Earl Jones Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 326th 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. |
| 1949 | Booth Theatre Revival · Richard Barr | 23 perf. |
Who was in it24 named
Al Pacino
Penelope Allen
Richard Bright
Larry Bryggman
Dominic Chianese
Judson Earney
Keith Gordon
Paul Guilfoyle
Richard Jamieson
Frederic Kimball
John Mahon
Dan Monahan
Bill Moor
Frederick C Neumann
Harriet Rogers
Jaime Sanchez
Glenn Scarpelli
Linda Selman
Barry Snider
J T Walsh
Max Wright
Daniel Zippi
2 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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
- David Wheeler
- Producer
- The Shubert Organization
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.