The run closed February 28, 1942
- Opened
- November 11, 1941
- Closed
- February 28, 1942
- Performances
- 131
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Nederlander Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 191st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Macbeth 33 more that season
| 1768 | John Street Theatre Original | |
| 1849 | Astor Place Opera House Revival | 2 perf. |
| 1870 | Booths Theatre Revival | |
| 1899 | Grand Opera House Revival | 2 perf. |
| 1900 | Fifth Avenue Theatre Revival | |
| 1905 | Garden Theatre Revival | |
| 1906 | Academy Of Music Revival | |
| 1907 | Garden Theatre Revival | |
| 1909 | New Amsterdam Theatre Revival | |
| 1910 | Garden Theatre Revival | |
| 1911 | Dalys Theatre Revival | |
| 1912 | Manhattan Opera House Revival | |
| 1913 | Manhattan Opera House Revival | |
| 1915 | 44th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1917 | 44th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1918 | 44th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1921 | Apollo Theatre Revival | 28 perf. |
| 1922 | 48th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1924 | 48th Street Theatre Revival | 33 perf. |
| 1928 | Knickerbocker Theatre Revival · Douglas Ross | 64 perf. |
| 1930 | Shubert Theatre Revival · Fritz Leiber | |
| 1935 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · Henry Herbert | 8 perf. |
| 1948 | National Theatre Revival · Norris Houghton | 29 perf. |
| 1956 | Winter Garden Theatre Revival · Michael Benthall | 25 perf. |
| 1962 | City Center Revival · Michael Benthall | |
| 1981 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Sarah Caldwell | 61 perf. |
| 1982 | Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Nicol Williamson | 21 perf. |
| 1986 | Belasco Theatre Revival · Estelle Parsons | |
| 1988 | Mark Hellinger Theatre Revival · Kenneth Frankel | 77 perf. |
| 2000 | Music Box Theatre Revival · Terry Hands | 13 perf. |
| 2008 | Lyceum Theatre Revival · Rupert Goold | 52 perf. |
| 2013 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · John Tiffany | 73 perf. |
| 2022 | Longacre Theatre Revival · Sam Gold | 79 perf. |
Who was in it25 named
Jackie Ayers
Harry Brandon
Ralph Clanton
Grace Coppin
Staats Cotsworth
Alex Courtnay
Erford Gage
Ernest Graves
Evelyn Helmore
Philip Huston
John Ireland
Harry Irvine
Viola Keats
Abby Lewis
Ada Mcfarland
Irving Morrow
Gregory Morton
William Nichols
John Parish
Melvin Parks
Alfred Paschall
Herbert Rudley
John Straub
Richard Tyler
1 of these 25 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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
- Maurice Evans
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 Macbeth at all.
- No show page for Macbeth. 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.