The run closed April 3, 1943
- Opened
- December 21, 1942
- Closed
- April 3, 1943
- Performances
- 123
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 201st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Three Sisters 9 more that season
| 1923 | Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Original | 10 perf. |
| 1926 | Civic Repertory Theatre Revival · Eva Le Gallienne | 39 perf. |
| 1939 | Longacre Theatre Revival | 9 perf. |
| 1964 | Morosco Theatre Revival · Lee Strasberg | 119 perf. |
| 1969 | Anta Playhouse Revival · William Ball | 11 perf. |
| 1973 | Billy Rose Theatre Revival · Boris Tumarin | 7 perf. |
| 1975 | Harkness Theatre Return-Engagement · Boris Tumarin | 7 perf. |
| 1996 | Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival · Galina Volchek | 5 perf. |
| 1997 | Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Scott Elliott | 61 perf. |
Who was in it17 named
Judith Anderson
Stanley Bell
Alice Belmore Cliffe
Patricia Calvert
Arthur Chatterton
Walter Craig
Kirk Douglas
Eric Dressler
Ruth Gordon
Edmund Gwenn
Alexander Knox
Tom Mcdermott
Mckay Morris
Gertrude Musgrove
Marie Paxton
2 of these 17 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.
Creative team
- Producer
- Katharine Cornell
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 Three Sisters at all.
- No director named.
- No show page for The Three Sisters. 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.