The run closed December 18, 1948
- Opened
- April 28, 1948
- Closed
- December 18, 1948
- Performances
- 244
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Booth Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 123rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Play's the Thing 3 more that season
| 1928 | Empire Theatre Revival · Holbrook Blinn | 24 perf. |
| 1973 | Bijou Theatre Revival · Gene Feist | 23 perf. |
| 1995 | Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Gloria Muzio | 45 perf. |
Who was in it12 named
Louis Calhern
Faye Emerson
Claude Allister
Francis Compton
Richard Hylton
Ted Paterson
Fred Wentler
Paul Bowers
Robert Clarke
Neil Fitzgerald
2 of these 12 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
- Gilbert Miller
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 Play's the Thing at all.
- No director named.
- No show page for The Play's the Thing. 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.