This day-by-day calendar of plays produced at the major London theatres from January 1, 1940 to December 31, 1949_the only work of its kind for the period_covers 53 major west-end theatres, thus dealing with all the big productions and names (Cocteau, Fry, Sartre, Hellman, Rattigan, Coward, Maugham, O'Casey, Shaw, Ibsen, Chekhov, Pirandello, Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson, etc.), revivals of the classics, and opera and ballet productions. Wearing lists 2,409 productions (over 143,000 performances) in chronological arrangement of playbills. With full production and contemporary review information for each play and a comprehensive index.
- ISBN10 1322124671
- ISBN13 9781322124674
- Publish Date 1 January 2014 (first published 1 March 1992)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 721
- Language English