Women Playwrights in the West End: 1950 – 1960

Table listing plays by women on the London stage from 1950 – 1960. Taken from West End Women: Women and the London stage 1918 – 1962 by Maggie B Gale. Posted with permission.

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West End Women - 1950 to 1960 (copyright Maggie B Gale)

Play	Author	Theatre	Date from	Date to	No. of Perfs
Tomorrow's Pride	Lydia Ragosin	Lyric	12/02/1950		1
Harvey	Mary Chase	Piccadilly	14/03/1950	01/07/1950
The Platinum Set	Reg Denham and Mary Orr	Saville	30/03/1950	08/04/1950	11
The Man with the Umbrella	Roma June	Duchess	05/04/1950	29/04/1950	29
Cry Libertyÿ	Esther McCrackenÿ	Vaudeville	21/04/1950	12/05/1950	26
The Gates of Brass	Sheila Hodgson	Apollo	14/05/1950		1
His Excellency	Dorothy and C. Campbell	Princes	23/05/1950	29/10/1950	452
If This Be Error	Rachel Grieve	Lyric	24/05/1950	24/06/1950	37
Treasure Hunt	M. J. Farrell and John Perry	St Martin's	12/06/1950	22/07/1950
Always Afternoon (adpt.)	Dido Milroy	Garrick	25/07/1950	26/08/1950	38
The Little Hut (adpt. from A. Roussin)	Nancy Mitford	Lyric	23/08/1950	05/09/1953	1261
Spring Song	Bella and Sam Spewack	Saville	04/09/1950	30/09/1950	31
His Excellency	Dorothy and C. Campbell	Piccadilly	31/10/1950	23/06/1951
Sing Cuckoo	Judy Campbell	Whitehall	10/12/1950		1
Lace on her Petticoat	Aimee Stuart	Ambassadors	14/12/1950	26/05/1951	188
The Silver Curlew	Eleanor Farjeon and Clifton Parkes	Fortune	22/12/1950	20/01/1950	50
Temple Folly	Bridget Boland	Whitehall	25/02/1951		1
The Seventh Veil	Muriel and Sydney Box	Princes	14/03/1951	12/05/1951	68
The Martin's Nest	Joan Morgan	Westminster	12/05/1951		35
The Hollow	Agatha Christie	Fortune	07/06/1951	06/10/1951	376
Come Live With Me	Dorothy and C. Christie	Vaudeville	21/06/1951	14/07/1951	28
Poor Judas	Enid Bagnold	Arts	18/07/1951	05/08/1951	23
The Hollow	Agatha Christie	Ambassadors	08/10/1951	02/05/1952
The Enchanted Garden	Madge Pemberton	Saville	14/10/1951		1
Women of Twilight	Sylvia Rayman	Vaudeville	07/11/1951	19/04/1952	253
The Young Eliza	Jeannette Dowling and Beth F Letton	Cambridge	09/12/1951		1
The Day's Mischief	Lesley Storm	Duke of York's	11/12/1951	02/02/1952	60
Be My Guest	Mary Jukes	Winter Garden	11/12/1951	04/01/1958	28
Spring at Marino	Constance Cox	Arts	13/12/1951	18/03/1951	40
Where the Rainbow Ends	Mrs Clifford Mills	Winter Garden	24/12/1951	10/01/1952	31
The Same Sky	Yvonne Mitchell	Lyric	31/01/1952	01/03/1952	80
To See Ourselves	E.M. Delafield	Arts	26/02/1952	23/03/1952	32
The Same Sky	Yvonne Mitchell	Duke of York's	18/03/1952	26/10/1952
The Young	Jeanette Dowling and Elizabeth F Letton	New	02/04/1952	21/06/1952	504
The Valley and the Peak	Joan Morgan	Whitehall	06/04/1952		1
Monserrat	Lillian Hellman	Lyric	08/04/1952	10/05/1952	38
Lords of Creation	Edward Percy and Lilian Denham	Vaudeville	24/04/1952	10/05/1952	4
After My Fashion	Diana Morgan	Ambassadors	08/05/1952	09/08/1952	107
Women of Twilight	Sylvia Rayman	Victoria Palace	18/06/1952	01/11/1952
The Young	Jeanette Dowling and Elizabeth F Letton	Criterion	30/06/1952	20/16/1953
The Step Forward	Anne Trego	Strand	30/07/1952	06/09/1952	48
Two Loves I Have	Dorothy and Howard Bauer	Arts	24/09/1952	19/10/1952	31
Husbands Don't Count	Patricia Hollender	Winter Garden	01/10/1952	29/11/1952	62
Lord Arthurs Saville's Crime	Constance Cox	Court	07/10/1952	25/10/1952	21
Letter From Paris	Dodie Smith	Aldwych	10/10/1952	01/11/1952	27
The Mousetrap	Agatha Christie	Ambassadors	02/11/1952		15500+
Murder Mistaken	Janet Green	Ambassadors	04/11/1952	22/11/1952	156
The Blue Lamp	Ted Willis and Jan Read	Hippodrome	19/11/1952	06/12/1952	32
Murder Mistaken	Janet Green	Vaudeville	24/11/1952	28/03/1953
Sweet Peril	Mary Orr and Reg Denham	St. James'	03/12/1952	10/01/1953	44
Where the Rainbow Ends	Mrs Clifford Mills	Princes	20/12/1952	17/01/1953	33
The Man	Mel Dinell	Her Majesty's	30/12/1952	07/02/1953	95
The Gift	Mary Lumsden	St Martin's	22/01/1953	14/02/1953	28
The Man	Mel Dinell	St Martin's	16/02/1953	28/03/1953
Red-Headed Blond	Val Guest	Vaudeville	01/04/1953	11/07/1953	116
Here We Are	Dorothy Parker	Adelphi	26/04/1953		1
They Owe It All to Us	John Hurst and Priscilla Malcolm	Adelphi	26/04/1953		1
The Uninvited Guest	Mary Hayley Bell	St. James'	27/05/1953	13/06/1953	21
The Man with Expensive Tastes	Ed Percy and Lilian Denham	Vaudeville	23/07/1953	15/08/1953	21
Carrington V C	D. and C. Campbell	Westminster	28/07/1953	29/08/1953	205
Age of Consent	Charlotte Haldane	Princes	22/08/1953	29/08/1953	9
The Secret Tent	Elizabeth Addyman	Strand	04/10/1953		1
Witness For the Prosecution	Agatha Christie	Winter Garden	28/10/1953	29/01/1955	458
The Return	Bridget Boland	Duchess	09/11/1953	16/01/1954	29
A Christmas Carol	Joan Littlewood	Theatre Royal E15	09/12/1953	19/12/1953	13
A London Actress	Emma Litchfield	Arts	16/12/1953	10/01/1954	32
Where the Rainbow Ends	Mrs Clifford Mills	Stoll	26/12/1953	16/01/1954	38
Treasure Island	Joan Littlewood	Theatre Royal E15	26/12/1953	16/01/1954	36
Alice Through the Looking Glass	Felicity Douglas	Princes	09/02/1954	20/03/1954	37
The Fifth Season	Sylvia Reagan	Cambridge	24/02/1954	22/05/1954	107
I Capture the Castle	Dodie Smith	Aldwych	04/03/1954	24/04/1954	58
The White Countess	J. B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes	Saville	24/03/1954	28/03/1954	5
The Prisoner	Bridget Boland	Globe	14/04/1954	05/06/1954	60
The Sun Room	Romily Cavan	Arts	29/04/1954	23/05/1954	30
Three Weeks Ahead	Laurie Wylie	Princes	02/05/1954		1
It's Never Too Late	Felicity Douglas	Westminster	03/06/1954	26/06/1954	196
It's Never Too Late	Felicity Douglas	Strand	28/06/1954	20/11/1954
All For Mary	H. Brooks and Kay Bannerman	Duke of York's	09/09/1954	11/06/1955	312
The Cruel Daughters (Balzac: Le Pere Goriot)	Joan Littlewood	Theatre Royal E15	19/10/1954	06/11/1954	19
The Immoralist	Ruth and Augustus Goetz	Arts	03/11/1954	05/12/1954	39
The Chimes (adpt.)	Joan Littlewood	Theatre Royal E15	30/11/1954	18/12/1954	23
Spider's Web	Agatha Christie	Savoy	14/12/1954	03/01/1956	774
The Prince and the Pauper	Joan Littlewood and E. MacColl	Theatre Royal E 15	27/12/1954	15/01/1955	32
The Yellow Curtains	Joyce Dennys	Adelphi	09/01/1955		1
The Lovers	Marcelle Maurette	Winter Garden	06/05/1955	21/05/1955	19
The Mimosa Man adpt.	Elizabeth Milne	Strand	09/05/1955		1
Its Different for Men	M. Pertwee and Brenda and Monica Danischesky	Duchess	11/05/1955	14/05/1955	40
My Three Angels	Sam and Bella Spewack	Lyric	12/05/1955	26/11/1955	228
The Lost Generation	Patricia Hollender	Garrick	01/06/1955	02/07/1955	32
Home and Away	Heather McIntyre	Garrick	19/07/1955	13/08/1955	30
The Bandit's Hat	Eve Morganti	Strand	09/10/1955		1
The Famous Five	Enid Blyton	Princes	23/12/1955	21/01/1956	26
Doctor Jo	Joan Morgan	Aldwych	15/02/1956	17/03/1956	37
Tabitha	Arnold Ridley and Mary Cathcart	Duchess	08/03/1956	14/04/1956	43
Tolka Row	Maura Laverty	Wyndham's	08/04/1956		1
The Chalk Garden	Enid Bagnold	Haymarket	11/04/1956	09/11/1957	658
Day After Tomorrow	Anne Walters	Strand	06/05/1956		1
Gigi	Anita Loos (Nou)	New	23/05/1956	01/09/1956	117
Love Affair	Dulcie Gray	Lyric	01/06/1956	16/06/1956	19
Darkling Child	W S. Merwin and Dido Milroy	Arts	21/07/1956	19/02/1956	29
The Long Echo	Leslie Storm	St. James'	01/08/1956	07/09/1956	37
The Young and The Beautiful (adp)	Sally Benson	Arts	15/08/1956	30/11/1957	39
Towards Zero	Agatha Christie	St. James'	04/09/1956	02/03/1957	205
The Children's Hour	Lillian Hellman	Arts	19/09/1956	28/10/1956	47
Plaintiff in a Pretty Hat	Hugh and Margaret Williams	Duchess	12/10/1956	15/12/1956	311
Mr Parker - From Paris	Tanya Teronova	Whitehall	21/10/1956		1
Cold Water Flat	Nancy Hamilton	Adelphi	28/10/1956		1
The Touch of Fear	Dorothy and C. Christie	Aldwych	05/12/1956	16/02/1957	84
Plaintiff in a Pretty Hat	Hugh and Margaret Williams	St Martin's	18/12/1956	13/07/1957
The Famous Five	Enid Blyton	Hippodrome	20/12/1956	13/01/1957	36 mat.
Treasure Island	Joan Littlewood	Theatre Royal E15	26/12/1956	12/01/1957	31
Never Say Die	Diana Marr Johnson	Strand	13/01/1957		1
Light Falling	Teresa Deevey	Lyric	14/01/1957	16/02/1957	40
The Member of the Wedding	Carson McCullers	Court	05/02/1957	09/03/1957	38
Dom Kobiet (The House of Women)	Zofia Nalkowska	Scala	07/06/1957		1
Time to Speak	Sylvia Rayman	Arts	11/06/1957	23/06/1957	16
The Waiting of Lester Abbs	Kathleen Sully	Court	30/06/1957		1
Roar Like a Dove	Lesley Storm	Phoenix	26/09/1957	05/03/1960	1007
The Queen and the Welshman	Rosemary Anne Sisson	Lyric	07/11/1957	23/11/1959	20
Paddle Your Own Canoe	Lucienne Hill	Criterion	04/12/1957	29/03/1958	132
The Happy Man	Hugh and Margaret Williams	Westminster	13/12/1957	01/02/1958	55
Love From Margaret	Evelyn Ford	Court	16/02/1958		1
The Sport of My Mad Mother	Ann Jellicoe	Court	25/02/1958	08/03/1958	14
Each His Own Wilderness	Doris Lessing	Court	23/03/1958		1
The Quiet Room	Jean Dalrymple	Wyndham's	30/03/1958		1
Verdict	Agatha Christie	Strand	22/05/1958	21/06/1958	35
A Taste of Honey	Shelagh Delaney	Theatre Royal E15	27/05/1958	28/06/1958	27
The Party	Jane Arden	New	28/05/1958	22/11/1958	205
Speaking of Murder	Audrey and William Roos	St Martin's	04/06/1958	01/11/1958	173
A Taste of Honey	Shelagh Delaney	Theatre Royal E15	28/06/1958	21/01/1959	368
Noon Has No Shadows	Patricia Joudry	Arts	18/07/1958	17/08/1958	37
Dear Augustine	Alison MacLeod	Court	28/07/1958	02/08/1958	8
The Unexpected Guest	Agatha Christie	Duchess	12/08/1958	30/01/1960	612
The Grass Is Greener	Hugh and Margaret Williams	St Martin's	02/12/1958	06/02/1960	492
A Christmas Carol	Joan Littlewood	Theatre Royal E15	16/12/1958	17/01/1959	45
Eighty in the shade	Clemence Dane	Globe	08/01/1959	13/06/1959	179
A Taste of Honey	Shelagh Delaney	Wyndham's	10/02/1959	06/06/1959
The Hidden River (adpt. from Storm Jameson)	Ruth and Augustus Goetz	Cambridge	13/04/1959	25/04/1959	16
Dark Halo	Sylvia Leigh	Arts	14/04/1959	10/05/1959	32
The Pleasure of his Company	S. Taylor and Cornelia 0. Skinner	Haymarket	24/04/1959	09/04/1960	403
Natural Causes	Vera Colebrook	Arts	12/05/1959	17/05/1959	8
Ulysses In Nightown (adpt.)	Marjorie Barkenton	Arts	21/05/1959	05/07/1959	54
Beware of Angels	Audrey E. Lyndor and D. Leslie	Westminster	26/05/1959	06/07/1959	6
A Taste of Honey	Shelagh Delaney	Criterion	08/06/1959	12/12/1959
Detour After Dark (adpt.)	Lucia Victor	Fortune	08/06/1959	13/06/1959	8
A Raisin In the Sun	Lorraine Hansberry	Adelphi	04/08/1959	10/10/1959	78
Rollo	Felicity Douglas	Strand	27/10/1959	30/01/1960	133
Wear a Green Willow	Casha Hunter	Strand	13/12/1959		1
Rollo	Felicity Douglas	Duchess	01/02/1960	20/02/1960