Theatre Register

The Merchant of Venice, 1918

Shows · Cort Theatre, 1918

Revival BroadwayJames Earl Jones Theatre 2 performances

The run closed January 26, 1918

Opened
January 25, 1918
Closed
January 26, 1918
Performances
2
Previews
Theatre
James Earl Jones Theatre

Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 921st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Merchant of Venice 30 more that season

1768 John Street Theatre Original
1899 Knickerbocker Theatre Revival
1900 Knickerbocker Theatre Return-Engagement
1901 Knickerbocker Theatre Revival 3 perf.
1903 American Theatre Revival
1904 Lyric Theatre Revival
1905 New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1906 New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1907 Lyric Theatre Revival
1908 Bijou Theatre Revival 8 perf.
1909 New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1910 Garden Theatre Revival
1911 Dalys Theatre Revival
1912 Manhattan Opera House Revival
1913 Harris Theatre Revival
1915 44th Street Theatre Revival
1916 New Amsterdam Theatre Revival 20 perf.
1917 44th Street Theatre Revival
1922 Lyceum Theatre Revival 92 perf.
1924 Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Revival
1925 Hampdens Theatre Revival · Walter Hampden 54 perf.
1928 Broadhurst Theatre Revival 64 perf.
1930 Shubert Theatre Revival
1931 Royale Theatre Revival · George Vivian 6 perf.
1947 New Century Theatre Revival · Donald Wolfit 6 perf.
1953 City Center Revival · Albert Marre 16 perf.
1973 Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Ellis Rabb 44 perf.
1989 46th Street Theatre Revival · Peter Hall 80 perf.
2010 Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Daniel Sullivan 73 perf.
2024 Trafalgar Theatre Transfer

Who was in it15 named

St Clair Bayfield
Albert Bruning
Pedro de Cordoba
Margaret Gage
Louis George
Charles Rann Kennedy
Edith Wynne Matthison
C H Meredith
Adrienne Morrison
Leonard Mudie
John S O Brien
William Raymond
Eric Snowden
Percival Vivian
Charles Webster

0 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 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.

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 The Merchant of Venice at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for The Merchant of Venice. 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.

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