The run closed May 15, 1948
- Opened
- October 20, 1947
- Closed
- May 15, 1948
- Performances
- 214
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Nederlander Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 136th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Medea 7 more that season
| 1858 | Bowery Theatre Original | |
| 1920 | Garrick Theatre Revival | 14 perf. |
| 1949 | City Center Revival | 16 perf. |
| 1973 | Circle In The Square Theatre Revival | 79 perf. |
| 1982 | Cort Theatre Revival · Robert Whitehead | 65 perf. |
| 1994 | Longacre Theatre Revival · Jonathan Kent | 83 perf. |
| 2002 | Brooks Atkinson Theatre Revival · Deborah Warner | 78 perf. |
Who was in it24 named
Judith Anderson
Florence Reed
Richard Boone
Jon Dawson
Martha Downes
Hugh Franklin
Kathryn Grill
Albert Hecht
Richard Hylton
Gene Lee
Dennis Mccarthy
Don Mchenry
Grace Mills
Peter Moss
Bobby Nick
Marian Seldes
Leone Wilson
Ludie Claire
Martha Downs
Dickinson Eastham
George Prescott
Inge Adams
Jerry Paris
1 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 23 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
- John Gielgud
- Producer
- Robert Whitehead
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 Medea at all.
- No show page for Medea. 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.