The run closed February 8, 1958
- Opened
- January 31, 1958
- Closed
- February 8, 1958
- Performances
- 6
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Belasco Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 620th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Present Laughter 5 more that season
| 1946 | Plymouth Theatre Original | 158 perf. |
| 1982 | Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · George C. Scott | 179 perf. |
| 1996 | Walter Kerr Theatre Revival · Scott Elliott | 175 perf. |
| 2010 | American Airlines Theatre Revival · Nicholas Martin | 69 perf. |
| 2017 | St James Theatre Revival · Moritz von Stuelpnagel | 101 perf. |
Who was in it10 named
Eva Gabor
John Ainsworth
Joyce Carey
Avril Gentles
Therese Quadri
Winston Ross
Angela Thornton
Robert Thurston
William Traylor
Mona Washbourne
0 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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 Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; S.N. Behrman; Elmer Rice; Robert E. Sherwood; Sidney Howard)
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 Present Laughter at all.
- No director named.
- No show page for Present Laughter. 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.