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 – 1959
Play title | Author | Theatre | Dates | No. of performances |
Tomorrow’s Pride | Lydia Ragosin | Lyric | 12.02.1950 | 1 |
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 Liberty | Esther McCracken | 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 |
His Excellency | Dorothy and C. Campbell | Piccadilly | 31.10.1950 – 23.06.1951 | |
If This Be Error | Rachel Grieve | Lyric | 24.05.1950 – 24.06.1950 | 37 |
Always Afternoon (adpt.) | Dido Milroy | Garrick | 25.07.1950 – 26.08.1950 | 38 |
The Little Hut (adpt. from A. Roussin) | Nancy Mitford | Lyric | 2308.1950 – 05.09.1953 | 1261 |
Spring Song | Bella and Sam Spewack | Saville | 04.09.1950 – 30.09.1950 | 31 |
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 |
Spring at Marino | Constance Cox | Arts | 13.12.1951 – 18.03.1951 | 40 |
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 – 12.05.1951 | 35 |
The Hollow | Agatha Christie | Fortune | 07.06.1951 – 06.10.1951 | 376 |
The Hollow | Agatha Christie | Ambassadors | 08.10.1951 – 02.05.1952 | |
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 Enchanted Garden | Madge Pemberton | Saville | 14.10.1951 | 1 |
Women of Twilight | Sylvia Rayman | Vaudeville | 07.11.1951 – 19.04.1952 | 253 |
Women of Twilight | Sylvia Rayman | Victoria Palace | 18.06.1952 – 01.11.1952 | |
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 |
Where the Rainbow Ends | Mrs Clifford Mills | Winter Garden | 24.12.1951 – 10.01.1952 | 31 |
Where the Rainbow Ends | Mrs Clifford Mills | Princes | 20.12.1952 – 17.01.1953 | 33 |
Where the Rainbow Ends | Mrs Clifford Mills | Stoll | 26.12.1953 – 16.01.1954 | 38 |
The Same Sky | Yvonne Mitchell | Lyric | 31.01.1952 – 01.03.1952 | 80 |
The Same Sky | Yvonne Mitchell | Duke of York’s | 18.03.1952 – 26.10.1952 | |
To See Ourselves | E.M. Delafield | Arts | 26.02.1952 – 23.03.1952 | 32 |
The Young | Jeanette Dowling and Elizabeth F Letton | New | 02.04.1952 – 21.06.1952 | 504 |
The Young | Jeanette Dowling and Elizabeth F Letton | Criterion | 30.06.1952 – 20.16.1953 | |
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 |
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 |
Murder Mistaken | Janet Green | Ambassadors | 04.11.1952 – 22.11.1952 | 156 |
Murder Mistaken | Janet Green | Vaudeville | 24.11.1952 – 28.03.1953 | |
The Blue Lamp | Ted Willis and Jan Read | Hippodrome | 19.11.1952 – 06.12.1952 | 32 |
The Mousetrap | Agatha Christie | Ambassadors | 02.11.1952 | 15500+ |
Sweet Peril | Mary Orr and Reg Denham | St. James’ | 03.12.1952 – 10.01.1953 | 44 |
The Man | Mel Dinell | Her Majesty’s | 30.12.1952 – 07.02.1953 | 95 |
The Man | Mel Dinell | St Martin’s | 16.02.1953 – 28.03.1953 | |
The Gift | Mary Lumsden | St Martin’s | 22.01.1953 – 14.02.1953 | 28 |
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 Christmas Carol | Joan Littlewood | Theatre Royal E15 | 16.12.1958 – 17.01.1959 | 45 |
A London Actress | Emma Litchfield | Arts | 16.12.1953 – 10.01.1954 | 32 |
Treasure Island | Joan Littlewood | Theatre Royal E15 | 26.12.1953 – 16.01.1954 | 36 |
Treasure Island | Joan Littlewood | Theatre Royal E15 | 26.12.1956 – 12.01.1957 | 31 |
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 Catle | 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 | Romill Cavan | Arts | 29.04.1954 – 23.05.1954 | 30 |
Three Weeks Ahead | Laurie Wylie | Princes | 02.05.1954 | 1 |
Its Never Too Late | Felicity Douglas | Westminster | 03.06.1954 – 26.06.1954 | 196 |
Its 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 – 03.01.19456 | 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 |
Its Different for Men | M. Pertwee and Brenda and Monica Danischesky | Duchess | 11.05.1955 -14.05.1955 | 40 |
The Lovers | Marcelle Maurette | Winter Garden | 06.05.1955 – 21.05.1955 | 19 |
The Mimosa Man adpt. | Elizabeth Milne | Strand | 09.05.1955 | 1 |
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 |
The Famous Five | Enid Blyton | Hippodrom | 20.12.1956 – 13.01.1957 | 36 mat. |
Darkling Child | W S. Merwin and Dido Milroy | Arts | 21.07.1956 – 19.02.1956 | 29 |
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 | New | 23.05.1956 – 01.09.1956 | 117 |
Love Affair | Dulcie Gray | Lyric | 01.06.1956 – 16.06.1956 | 19 |
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 |
Plaintiff in a Pretty Hat | Hugh and Margaret Williams | St Martin’s | 18.12.1956 – 13.07.1957 | |
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 |
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 |
Be My Guest | Mary Jukes | Winter Garden | 11.12.1951 – 04.01.1958 | 28 |
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 |
A Taste of Honey | Shelagh Delaney | Theatre Royal E15 | 28.06.1958 – 21.01.1959 | 368 |
A Taste of Honey | Shelagh Delaney | Wyndham’s | 10.02.1959 – 06.06.1959 | |
A Taste of Honey | Shelagh Delaney | Criterion | 08.06.1959 – 12.12.1959 | |
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 |
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 |
Eighty in the shade | Clemence Dane | Globe | 08.01.1959-13.06.1959 | 179 |
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 |
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 |
Rollo | Felicity Douglas | Duchess | 01.02.1960-20.02.1960 | |
Wear a Green Willow | Casha Hunter | Strand | 13.12.1959 | 1 |