The run closed June 22, 1946
- Opened
- May 20, 1946
- Closed
- June 22, 1946
- Performances
- 15
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Century Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 563rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Oedipus Rex 6 more that season
| 1907 | Lyric Theatre Original | |
| 1911 | Irving Place Theatre Revival | |
| 1913 | Garden Theatre Revival | |
| 1923 | Century Theatre Revival | 20 perf. |
| 1948 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Tyrone Guthrie | 8 perf. |
| 1984 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Vassilis Kyritsis | 8 perf. |
Who was in it45 named
Harry Andrews
Eleanora Barrie
Nicolette Bernard
Max Brent
Ena Burrill
Lawrence Carr
Rudolph Cavell
Byron Chapman
George Cooper
Peter Copley
Will Davis
Frank Duncan
Kenneth Edwards
John Garley
Nicholas Hannen
Carl James
David Kentish
Elmer Lehr
Margaret Leighton
Robin Lloyd
Diana Maddox
Miles Malleson
William Monk
Laurence Olivier
Brian Parker
Bernard Pollack
Michael Raghan
Joyce Redman
John Reilly
George Relph
Ralph Richardson
Paul Riley
Sandy Roe
Dee Sparks
William Squire
Al Studer
Alvin Sullum
Sidney Tafler
Michael Warre
Richard Wendley
Jane Wenham
Cecil Winter
3 of these 45 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 42 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
- Michel Saint-Denis
- Producer
- Theatre Incorporated (Richard Aldrich: Managing Director)
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 Oedipus Rex at all.
- No show page for Oedipus Rex. 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.