The run closed August 9, 1940
- Opened
- April 29, 1940
- Closed
- August 9, 1940
- Performances
- 115
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 212th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it15 named
Charles Ansley
Charva Chester
Maurice Colbourne
Robert Downing
Lynn Fontanne
Elisabeth Fraser
Thomas Gomez
Claude Horton
William Lemassena
Ralph Nelson
Edward Raquello
Phyllis Thaxter
Brooks West
2 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 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
- Alfred Lunt
- Producer
- The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; S.N. Behrman; Elmer Rice; Robert E. Sherwood; Sidney Howard)
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 There Shall Be No Night at all.
- No show page for There Shall Be No Night. 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.