The run closed April 24, 1948
- Opened
- March 31, 1948
- Closed
- April 24, 1948
- Performances
- 29
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Nederlander Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 428th 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. |
| 1941 | National Theatre Revival · Margaret Webster | 131 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 it34 named
Dan Barton
Whitfield Connor
Stephen Courtleigh
John Cromwell
Sonny Curven
Blair Cutting
Anne Hegira
Harry Hess
Lamont Johnson
Arthur Keegan
Hector Macgregor
Paul Mann
Marcia Marcus
Alan Mckirdy
John Mcquade
Thomas Palmer
Penelope Potter
Ken Raymond
Michael Redgrave
Judson Rees
Elliott Reid
Michael Reilly
Flora Robson
William Skelton
Robinson Stone
Beatrice Straight
John Straub
Ken Sutton
Geoffrey Toone
Whit Vernon
Gillian Webb
3 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 31 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
- Norris Houghton
- Producer
- The Theatre Guild
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.