The run closed May 27, 1948
- Opened
- May 22, 1948
- Closed
- May 27, 1948
- Performances
- 8
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadway Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 640th 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. |
| 1946 | New Century Theatre Revival · Michel Saint-Denis | 15 perf. |
| 1984 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Vassilis Kyritsis | 8 perf. |
Who was in it3 named
Shimon Finkel
Aharon Meskin
Hannah Rovina
0 of these 3 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 3 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
- Tyrone Guthrie
- Producer
- Theatre Incorporated
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.