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.
ALSO SEE
- COMPLETE TABLE – Productions 1917 – 1960
- Productions 1917 – 1929
- Productions 1930 – 1939
- Productions 1940 – 1949
- Productions 1950 – 1960
DATA
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 |










