The run closed March 10, 1990
- Opened
- December 19, 1989
- Closed
- March 10, 1990
- Performances
- 80
- Previews
- 19
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 171st 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 | |
| 1918 | Cort Theatre Revival | 2 perf. |
| 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. |
| 2010 | Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Daniel Sullivan | 73 perf. |
| 2024 | Trafalgar Theatre Transfer |
Who was in it31 named
William Beckwith
Neal Ben Ari
Ben Browder
Francesca Buller
Donald Burton
Michael Carter
Margery Daley
Peter Hugo Daly
Dale Dickey
Herb Downer
Elisabeth Engan
Richard Garnett
Gordon Gould
Basil Henson
Dustin Hoffman
Denis Holmes
Geraldine James
Leigh Lawson
Leo Leyden
Leon Lissek
Nathaniel Parker
Wilbur Pauley
Margaret Poyner
Gary Rayppy
Michael Siberry
Christina Sunnerstam
Julia Swift
John Norman Thomas
Isiah Whitlock Jr
John Wojda
Taylor Young
0 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 31 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
- Peter Hall
- Producer
- Duncan C. Weldon
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 The Merchant of Venice at all.
- 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.