Table listing plays by women on the London stage from 1940 – 1949.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 – 1959
Play title | Author | Theatre | Dates | No. of performances |
Cousin Muriel | Clemence Dane | Globe | 07.03.1940 – 11.05.1940 | 75 |
Jeannie | Aimee Stuart | Wyndham’s | 03.04.1940 – 22.06.1940 | 100 |
A House in the Square | Diana Morgan | St Martin’s | 04.04.1940 – 25.04.1940 | 67 |
Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier | Queen’s | 05.04.1940 – 07.09.1940 | 180 |
The Women | Clare Booth | Strand | 23.04.1940 – 04.05.1940 | 16 |
Dear Octopus | Dodie Smith | Adelphi | 27.07.1940 – 31.08.1940 | 42 |
Margin for Error | Clare Booth | Apollo | 01.08.1940 – 20.08.1940 | 45 |
Under One Roof | Kim Peacock | St Martin’s | 24.04.1941 – 13.05.1941 | 24 |
Quiet Week End | Esther McCracken | Wyndham’s | 22.07.1941 – 29.01.1944 | 1059 |
Other People’s Houses | Lynne Dexter | Ambassadors | 30.10.1941 – 14.03.1942 | 172 |
Ducks and Drakes | M. J. Farrell | Apollo | 25.11.1941 – 13.12.1941 | 23 |
Little Women | Marian De Forest | Westminster | 22.12.1941 – 07.02.1942 | 56 |
Other People’s Houses | Lynne Dexter | Phoenix | 19.03.1942 – 09.05.1942 | 131 |
Other People’s Houses | Lynne Dexter | Whitehall | 11.05.1942 – 27.06.1942 | |
Watch on the Rhine | Lillian Hellman | Aldwych | 22.04.1942 – 04.12.1943 | 672 |
Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier | Strand | 21.05.1942 – 05.09.1942 | 176 |
Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier | Lyric | 12.09.1942 – 24.10.1942 | |
Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier | Ambassadors | 26.12.1942 – 09.01.1943 | |
Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier | Scala | 26.04.1942 – 22.05.1942 | |
Baby Mine | Margaret Mayo | Westminster | 09.06.1942 – 27.06.1943 | 390 |
Claudia | Rose Franken | St Martin’s | 17.09.1942 – 15.01.1944 | 559 |
The Little Foxes | Lillian Hellman | Piccadilly | 21.10.1942 – 21.11.1942 | 37 |
Mothers Are Waiting | Audrey Lucas | Adelphi | 09.05.1942 | 1 mat. |
Case 27, VC | Maud Flannery and T Browne | Comedy | 02.06.1943 – 26.05.1943 | 30 |
Living Room | Esther McCracken | Garrick | 09.06.1943 – 09.10.1943 | 142 |
Lottie Dundass | Enid Bagnold | Vaudeville | 21.07.1943 – 09.10.1943 | 147 |
Lottie Dundass | Enid Bagnold | Cambridge | 12.10.1943 – 20.11.1943 | |
Landslide | Dorothy Albertyn and David Peel | Westminster | 05.10.1942 – 06.11.1942 | 38 |
Alana Avenue | Mabel and Denis Constanduros | Vaudeville | 14.10.1942 – 15.04.1944 | 231 |
Ten Little Niggers | Agatha Christie | St James’ | 17.11.1942 – 24.02.1944 | 261 |
Ten Little Niggers | Agatha Christie | Cambridge | 29.02.1944 – 06.05.1944 | |
Ten Little Niggers | Agatha Christie | St. James’ | 09.05.1944 – 01.07.1944 | |
Alice in Wonderland | Clemence Dane | Scala | 14.12.1942 – 12.02.1944 | 86 |
Alice in Wonderland | Clemence Dane | Palace | 26.12.1944 – 27.01.1945 | |
Where The Rainbow Ends | Mrs Clifford Mills and R.R. Quilter | Winter Garden | 27.12.1943 – 29.01.1944 | 46 mat. |
Donabel Wrote a Tragedy | H. and H. Granville Barker | Arts | 13.01.1944 – 06.02.1944 | 30 |
This Was a Woman | Joan Morgan | Comedy | 15.03.1944 – 30.12.1944 | 380 |
Quiet Weekend | Esther McCracken | Wyndham’s | 25.04.1944 – 02.09.1944 | 137 |
The Last of Summer | Kate 0 ‘Brien | Phoenix | 07.06.1944 – 01.07.1944 | 29 |
Three’s a Family | Phoebe and Henry Ephron | Saville | 21.09.1944 – 12.05.1945 | 317 |
Three’s a Family | Phoebe and Henry Ephron | Winter Garden | 15.05.1945 – 23.06.1945 | |
No Medals | Esther McCracken | Vaudeville | 04.10.1944 – 20.07.1946 | 740 |
Scandal at Barchester | Vera Wheatley | Lyric | 05.10.1944 – 09.12.1944 | 109 |
Scandal at Barchester | Vera Wheatley | Wyndham’s | 12.12.1944 – 06.01.1945 | |
Daughter Janie | J. Bentham and H. Williams | Apollo | 18.10.1944 – 28.10.1944 | 14 |
Quiet Weekend | Esther McCracken | Playhouse | 09.11.1944 – 03.02.1945 | 101 |
The Years Between | Daphne Du Maurier | Wyndham’s | 10.01.1945 – 22.06.1946 | 618 |
Laura | Vera Caspary and George Sklar | St Martin’s | 14.02.1945 – 07.04.1945 | 67 |
Great Day | Lesley Storm | Playhouse | 14.03.1945 – 07.04.1945 | 29 |
Yellow Sands | Eden and Adelaide Philpotts | Westminster | 29.03.1945 – 23.06.1945 | 103 |
Appointment With Death | Agatha Christie | Piccadilly | 31.03.1945 – 05.05.1945 | 42 |
Lady from Edinburgh | Aimee Stuart and L. Arthur Rose | Playhouse | 10.04.1945 – 10.08.1946 | 560 |
Maid Marion | Joan Brampton | His Majesty’s | 15.05.1945 | 1 mat. |
Duet For Two Hands | Mary Hayley Bell | Lyric | 27.06.1945 – 11.05.1946 | 364 |
The Shouting Dies | Ronda Keane | Lyric | 05.10.1945 – 03.11.1945 | 37 |
Fit For Heroes | H. Brooke and Kay Bannerman | Whitehall | 19.12.1945 – 29.12.1945 | 11 |
Stage Door | Edna Ferber and George Kaufman | Saville | 21.02.1946 – 30.03.1946 | 44 |
And No Birds Sing | Jenny Laird and John Fernald | Comedy | 17.03.1946 | 1 |
And No Birds Sing | Jenny Laird and John Fernald | Aldwych | 11.11.1946 – 25.01.1947 | 84 |
Murder on the Nile | Agatha Christie | Ambassadors | 19.03.1946 – 02.04.1946 | 46 |
No Room at the Inn | Joan Temple | Winter Garden | 03.05.1946 – 24.05.1947 | 427 |
The Kingmaker | Margaret Luce | St. James’ | 14.05.1946 – 20.08.1946 | 97 |
Grand National Night | Dorothy and Campbell Christie | Apollo | 12.06.1946 – 01.02.1948 | 268 |
Green Laughter | Rose Simon Kohn | Comedy | 13.06.1946 – 08.07.1946 | 29 |
The Man from the Ministry | Madeleine Bingham | Whitehall | 07.07.1946 | 1 |
The Man from the Ministry | Madeleine Bingham | Comedy | 24.12.1946 – 05.07.1947 | 220 |
Love Goes to Press | Martha Gelhorn and Virginia Cowles | Duchess | 22.07.1946 – 24.08.1946 | 40 |
Pick Up Girl | Elsa Shelley | Prince of Wales’ | 23.07.1946 – 05.10.1946 | 170 |
Pick Up Girl | Elsa Shelley | Casino | 14.10.1946 – 14.12.1946 | |
Fear No More | Diana Hamilton and C. Aiken | Lyric | 05.08.1946 – 31.08.1946 | 33 |
Soldiers Wife | Rose Franken | Duchess | 27.08.1946 – 19.10.1946 | 62 |
Mother of Men | Ada G. Abbott | Comedy | 12.09.1946 – 19.10.1946 | 49 |
Literally Speaking | Madeline and Cyric Campion | Aldwych | 06.10.1946 | 1 |
Call Home the Heart | Clemence Dane | St. James | 10.04.1947 – 17.05.1947 | 44 |
Angel | Mary Hayley Bell | Strand | 06.06.1947 – 14.06.1947 | 10 |
The Conqueror’s Gate | Dorothy Lang | Savil | 05.10.1947 | 1 |
Still She Wished for Company | Margaret Irwin and J. R. Monsell | Whitehall | 12.10.1947 | 1 |
Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier | Theatre Royal E15 | 10.11.1947 – 22.11.1947 | 16 |
The Little Thorn Dry | Gordon Daviot | Lyric | 11.11.1947 – 06.12.1947 | 30 |
Daddy Long Legs | Jean Webster | Comedy | 23.12.1947 – 17.01.1948 | 19 mat. |
Diamond Lil | Mae West | Prince of Wales’ | 24.01.1948 – 08.05.1948 | 180 |
The Lady from Edinburgh | Aimee Stuart and L. Arthur Rose | Theatre Royal E15 | 09.02.1948 – 21.02.1948 | 16 |
Family Portrait | Lenore Coffee and WJ. Cowen | Strand | 17.02.1948 – 20.03.1948 | 38 |
Cockpit | Bridget Boland | Playhouse | 19.02.1948 – 10.04.1948 | 58 |
Castle Anne | Elizabeth Bowen and John Perry | Lyric | 24.02.1948 – 20.03.1948 | 30 |
Dark Eyes | Glena Miranova | Strand | 24.03.1948 – 29.05.1948 | 76 |
Happy with Either | Margaret Kennedy | St. James | 22.04.1948 – 22.05.1948 | 35 |
Royal Circle | Romily Cavan | Wyndham’s | 27.04.1948 – 29.05.1948 | 38 |
Top Floor | Rita Anderson | Whitehall | 13.06.1948 | 1 |
Someone at the Door | Dorothy and Campbell Christie | Theatre Royal E15 | 12.07.1948 – 24.07.1948 | 16 |
A Man Must Die | Felicity Douglas | St Martin’s | 04.08.1948 – 28.08.1948 | 29 |
Sixteen | Aimee and Philip Stuart | Theatre Royal E15 | 09.08.1948 – 21.08.1948 | 16 |
Valerious | Gordon Daviot | Saville | 03.10.1948 | 1 |
September Tide | Daphne Du Maurier | Aldwych | 15.12.1948 – 06.08.1949 | 267 |
Where the Rainbow Ends | Mrs Cliff Mills | Cambridge | 22.12.1948 – 22.01.1949 | 27 mat. |
Harvey | Mary Chase | Prince of Wales’ | 05.01.1949 – 11.03.1950 | 610 |
Harvey | Mary Chase | Piccadilly | 14.03.1950 – 01.07.1950 | |
Quaint Honour | Barbara Gregory | Wyndham’s | 09.01.1949 | 1 |
Sweethearts and Wives | G. and M. Hackforth Jones | Wyndham’s | 22.02.1949 – 12.03.1949 | 23 |
The Foolish Gentlewoman | Margery Sharp | Duchess | 23.03.1949 – 30.07.1949 | 180 |
Love’s A Funny Thing | Jane Hinton | Ambassadors | 10.03.1949 – 12.03.1949 | 4 |
Acacia Avenue | D. and Mabel Constanduros | Theatre Royal E15 | 21.03.1949 – 26.03.1949 | 8 |
A Woman’s Place | Wendy Grimwood | Vaudeville | 24.03.1949 – 21.05.1949 | 67 |
The Years Between | Daphne Du Maurier | Theatre Royal E15 | 11.04.1949 – 16.04.1949 | 7 |
Royal Highness | Margaret Webster | Lyric | 13.04.1949 – 14.05.1949 | 35 |
Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier | Scala | 13.06.1949 – 19.06.1949 | 8 |
No Room at the Inn | Joan Temple | Theatre Royal E15 | 20.06.1949 – 25.06.1949 | 7 |
Western Wind | Charlotte Frances | Theatre Royal E15 | 04.07.1949 – 09.07.1949 | 27 |
Western Wind | Charlotte Frances | Piccadilly | 09.09.1949 – 01.10.1949 | |
Treasure Hunt | M. J. Farrell and John Perry | Apollo | 14.09.1919 – 10.06.1950 | 358 |
Treasure Hunt | M. J. Farrell and John Perry | St Martin’s | 12.06.1950 – 22.07.1950 | |
John Keats Lived Here | Diana Raymond | Wyndham’s | 25.09.1949 | 1 |
Love’s a Funny Thing | Jane Hinton | Adelphi | 30.10.1949 | 1 |
Bonaventure | Charlotte Hastings | Vaudeville | 06.12.1949 – 15.04.1949 | 149 |
Murder at the Vicarage (adpt.) | Moie Charles and Barbara Toy | Playhouse | 14.12.1949 – 01.04.1950 | 126 |
The Silver Curlew | Eleanor Farjeon | Arts | 22.12.1949 – 22.01.1950 | 40 |