The run closed June 8, 1940
- Opened
- May 9, 1940
- Closed
- June 8, 1940
- Performances
- 36
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- 51st Street Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 391st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Romeo and Juliet 24 more that season
| 1754 | New Theatre Original | |
| 1869 | Booths Theatre Revival | |
| 1899 | Empire Theatre Revival | |
| 1904 | Knickerbocker Theatre Revival | |
| 1905 | Knickerbocker Theatre Revival | |
| 1907 | Lyric Theatre Revival | |
| 1909 | New Amsterdam Theatre Revival | |
| 1910 | Academy Of Music Revival | |
| 1911 | Dalys Theatre Revival | |
| 1912 | Manhattan Opera House Revival | |
| 1913 | Manhattan Opera House Revival | |
| 1915 | 44th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1918 | 44th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1922 | 48th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1923 | Henry Millers Theatre Revival · Frank Reicher | 157 perf. |
| 1930 | Civic Repertory Theatre Revival · Eva Le Gallienne | 16 perf. |
| 1934 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Guthrie McClintic | 77 perf. |
| 1935 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Martha Graham | 15 perf. |
| 1951 | Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Peter Glenville | 49 perf. |
| 1956 | Winter Garden Theatre Revival · Robert Helpmann | 29 perf. |
| 1962 | City Center Revival · Franco Zeffirelli | |
| 1977 | Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Theodore Mann | 77 perf. |
| 1986 | Belasco Theatre Revival · Estelle Parsons | |
| 2013 | Richard Rodgers Theatre Revival · David Leveaux | 93 perf. |
Who was in it36 named
Virginia Burchfield
Mary Kane
Patricia Knight
Nancie B Marsland
Charles Prescott
Howard Stark
Wesley Addy
William Barrows
Ralph Brooke
Walter Brooke
Hazel Brown
Oliver Cliff
Frank Downing
H Robert Edwards
Brant Gorman
Wilton Graff
Ralph Grayson
Earle Grey
Halliwell Hobbes
Barbara Horder
Raymond Johnson
Alexander Knox
Charles Martin
Jack Merivale
Nan Merriman
Edmond O Brien
Tileston Perry
Joan Shepard
Clara Speer
Morton L Stevens
John Straub
Joseph Tomes
Katherine Warren
Ben Webster
Dame May Whitty
1 of these 36 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 35 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
- Robert Ross
- Producer
- Laurence Olivier
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 Romeo and Juliet at all.
- No show page for Romeo and Juliet. 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.