The run closed January 12, 1957
- Opened
- October 29, 1956
- Closed
- January 12, 1957
- Performances
- 25
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 424th 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. |
| 1948 | National Theatre Revival · Norris Houghton | 29 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
Ronald Allen
Peter Bowles
Jeremy Brett
Coral Browne
Graeme Campbell
Wynne Clark
Juliet Cooke
Margaret Courtenay
Charles Gray
Jack Gwillim
Ernest Hare
Edward Harvey
Denis Holmes
Sally Home
Donald Homer
Marion Hood
Fraser Kerr
Tom Kneebone
Aubrey Morris
Daniel Moynihan
Peter Needham
John Neville
Derek New
Timothy Parkes
Alan Penn
Bryan Pringle
Paul Rogers
Job Stewart
Keith Taylor
James Villiers
Charles West
Jennifer Wilson
John Woodvine
Richard Wordsworth
0 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 34 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
- Michael Benthall
- Producer
- Old Vic Trust, Ltd.
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.