Theatre Register

Othello, 1945

Shows · Othello · City Center, 1945

We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against Othello and could document any of its runs. W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith
Revival BroadwayCity Center24 performances

The run closed June 10, 1945

Opened
May 22, 1945
Closed
June 10, 1945
Performances
24
Previews
Theatre
City Center

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 460th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Othello 18 more that season

1751 Nassau Street Theatre Original
1865 Winter Garden Theatre Revival
1904 Princess Theatre Revival
1905 Garden Theatre Revival
1906 Academy Of Music Revival
1907 Lyric Theatre Revival
1909 New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1911 Dalys Theatre Revival
1913 Shubert Theatre Revival
1914 Lyric Theatre Revival 16 perf.
1915 44th Street Theatre Revival
1918 44th Street Theatre Revival
1925 Shubert Theatre Revival · Walter Hampden 57 perf.
1935 Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · Henry Herbert 11 perf.
1943 Shubert Theatre Revival · Margaret Webster 296 perf.
1970 Anta Playhouse Revival · Michael Kahn 16 perf.
1982 Winter Garden Theatre Revival · Peter Coe 123 perf.
2025 Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival 89 perf.

Who was in it25 named

Barbara Anderson
Stockman Barner
Ronald Bishop
Jay Brassfield
William Browder
Angus Cairns
Ralph Clanton
Francis Compton
Daniel Cullitan
John Granger
Uta Hagen
Philip Huston
Don Keefer
Leonard Klein
Robert Leser
Francis Letton
Louis Lytton
Virginia Mattis
Paul Robeson
William Sandy
Robinson Stone
Ted Varyan

3 of these 25 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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

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 Othello at all.
  • No director named.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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