The run closed December 20, 1953
- Opened
- December 9, 1953
- Closed
- December 20, 1953
- Performances
- 15
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- City Center
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 508th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Richard III 1 more that season
| 2013 | Belasco Theatre Revival · Tim Carroll | 31 perf. |
Who was in it36 named
James Arenton
Leopold Badia
Paul Ballantyne
Jay Barney
Dehl Berti
Jack Bittner
Bill Butler
Sandy Campbell
Kendall Clark
John Connoughton
Staats Cotsworth
Will Davis
John Glennon
Peter Harris
Philip Huston
Martin Kingsley
Jessie Royce Landis
Robert Lansing
Benedict Macquarrie
William Post
Florence Reed
Viola Roache
Norman Roland
Robinson Stone
John Straub
Eugene Stuckmann
Charles Summers
Charles Taylor
Wallace Widdecombe
G Wood
6 of these 36 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 30 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
- Margaret Webster
- Producer
- New York City Theatre Company
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 Richard III at all.
- No show page for Richard III. 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.