- (1914 - 1964) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1914) Stage Play: Twelfth Night. Comedy (revival). Written by William Shakespeare. Directed by Cecil King. Liberty Theatre: 23 Nov 1914- Nov 1914 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: James Berry [final Broadway role], Jessie Busley, Lawson Butt, Cecil Cameron, Roy Cochrane, Walter Creighton, Henry E. Dixey, Reynolds Evans (Broadway debut), William Giffard, Reginald Goode, Frederick Guest, Edgar Kent, Eben Plympton, Maxwell Ryder, Claude Stevens, Edith Campbell Walker. Produced by Liebler & Co.
- (1915) Stage Play: The Doctor's Dilemma. Written by George Bernard Shaw. Wallack's Theatre: 26 Mar 1915- unknown (closing date unknown/unknown performances). Cast: Lionel Braham (as "Sir Patrick Cullen"), Kate Carlyon, George Carr, Ernest Cossart (as "The Newspaper Man"), Reynolds Evans (as "Redpenny"), Walter Geer, Nicholas Hannen, O.P. Heggie (as "Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington"), Edgar Kent, Wright Kramer, Eva Leonard Boyne (as "Minnie Tinwell"), Arnold Lucy (as "Mr. Cutler Walpole"), Ian Maclaren (as "Sir Colenson Ridgeon"), Lillah McCarthy.
- (1923) Stage Play: The Jolly Roger. Comedy. Written by A.E. Thomas. National Theatre: 30 Aug 1923- Oct 1923 (closing date unknown/52 performances). Cast: Ruth Chorpenning, Murray Darcy, Pedro de Cordoba (as "Adam Trent"), Marcel Dill, Reynolds Evans (as "Flint"), Paul Guilfoyle, C. Norman Hammond, H.E. Humphrey, P.J. Kelly, Joseph Latham, J.R. Lee, Carroll McComas (as "Hilda Borner"), LeRoi Operti (as "Barney Blum"), Ernest Rowan, William Sauter, William H. Stephens, Allen Thomas.
- (1923) Stage Play: Cyrano de Bergerac. Comedy (revival). Written by Edmond Rostand. Incidental music from the opera "Cyrano" by Walter Damrosch. Adapted in verse by Brian Hooker. Entire Production Designed and Supervised by Claude Bragdon. Directed by Walter Hampden. National Theatre: 1 Nov 1923- Jun 1924 (closing date unknown/232 performances). Cast: Walter Hampden (as "Cyrano de Bergerac, a Gascon"), John Alexander, Margaret Barnstead, Nina Bruning, Kenneth Burchfield, Ray T. Busch, Ruth Chorpenning (as "Roxane's Duenna"), Lawrence Chrow, Frank Colletti, Hope Coxhead, Miriam Cutler, Marcel Dill, Reynolds Evans (as "Le Vicomte de Valvert/Cadet of Gascoyne"), Jay Fassett (as "A Light Horseman/Cadet of Gascoyne"), Ethel Fisher, Henry Fitzgerald, Charles Francis, Isabel Garland, Henry Goff, William Goodrich, Paul Guilfoyle, Mary Hall, C. Norman Hammond (as "Montfleury, a tragic actor/A Capuchin"), H.E. Humphrey, Anthony Jochim, Stan Jones, Elsie Herndon Kearns, P.J. Kelly, Joseph Latham, Paul Leyssac (as "Le Comte de Guiche"), Margaret Low, Alfred Mack, Bernard Max, Carroll McComas (as "Roxane, Cyrano's cousin"), Fred McGuick, Mabel Moore (as "An Orange Girl/Sister Marthe"), Valentine Newmark, LeRoi Operti (as "Jodelet, the comedian/Poet"), Lou Polan, James R. Pray, Ernest Rowan, William Russell, Antonio Salerno, Franklin Salisbury, William Sauter (as "Lignière, the poet/A Spanish Officer"), Bernard Savage, Helena Simkhovitch, William H. Stevens, Allen Thomas, Anne Tonetti, Thomas F. Tracey (as "A Marquis"), John Trevor, Fred Verdi, Earl Weatherford, Cedric Weller, Albert G. West, Edith Barrett Williams, John Wilson, Cecil Yapp (as "Ragueneau, a pastry cook"), Frank Young. Produced by Claude Bragdon.
- (1928) Stage Play: The Grey Fox. Written by Lemist Esler. Directed by Esler and William A. Brady. Playhouse Theatre: 22 Oct 1928- Jan 1929 (closing date unknown/88 performances). Cast: Edward Arnold (as "Cesare Borgia"), Martin Berkeley (as "Ottaviano"), Robert Buckner (as "Arturo") [Broadway debut], J.M. Kerrigan (as "Francesco Vettori"), Mallory Davis (as A Nun"), Reynolds Evans (as "Da Casale"), Mike Flanagan (as "First Soldier"), Gurney, Denis (as "Pretty Pietro"), Norman St. Clair Hales (as "Oliverotto Da Ferma"), Chrystal Herne (as "Caterina Sforza"), Henry Hull (as "Niccolo Machiavelli"), Nat Pendleton (as "Don Michelotto"), George Tobias (as "Sergeant of the Guard"), Alfred Webster (as "The Captain Savelli"). Produced by William A. Brady and Dwight Wiman [credited as Dwight Deere Wiman].
- (1928) Stage Play: King Henry V. Historical drama (revival). Written by William Shakespeare.
- (1926) Stage Play: Cyrano de Bergerac. Comedy.
- (1925) Stage Play: The Merchant of Venice. Comedy (revival). Written by William Shakespeare.
- (1925) Stage Play: Hamlet. Tragedy (revival). Written by William Shakespeare. Directed by Walter Hampden. Hampden's Theatre (moved to The National Theatre from Nov 1925 to close): 10 Oct 1925- Dec 1925 (closing date unknown/68 performances). Cast: Walter Hampden (as "Hamlet, son to the late, and nephew to the present King"), Ethel Barrymore (as "Ophelia, daughter to Polonius"), Albert Bruning (as "Polonius, Lord Chamberlain"), Mary Hall (as "Gertrude, Queen of Denmark and mother to Hamlet"), Kenneth Hunter, Ernest Rowan (as "Laertes, son to Polonius"), Edith Barrett, Marcel Dill, Reynolds Evans (as "Bernardo/Officer/Player King"), Thomas Gomez (as "Reynaldo, a Sailor"), Gordon Hart, Hart Jenks, P.J. Kelly, Max Montor (as "Ghost"), Mabel Moore (as "Player Queen"), LeRoi Operti (as "Osric, a Courtier"), Louis Polan (as "Captain"), William Sauter (as "Horatio, friend to Hamlet"), Thomas F. Tracey (as "Rosencrantz/Courtier/Priest"), J. Plumpton Wilson, Philip Wood, Cecil Yapp (as "First Gravedigger"). Produced by Walter Hampden.
- (1925) Stage Play: Othello. Tragedy/drama (revival). Written by William Shakespeare. Directed by Walter Hampden. Shubert Theatre: 10 Jan 1925- Feb 1925 (closing date unknown/57 performances). Cast: Walter Hampden (as "Othello"), Frank Coletti, Murray Darcy, Marcel Dill, Reynolds Evans (as "Roderigo"), Jay Fassett (as "Messenger/Herald"), Charles Francis, Paul Guilfoyle (as "Sailor/Gentleman of Cyprus"), Mary Hall, Baliol Holloway, Elsie Herndon Kearns, P.J. Kelly, Joseph Latham, Mabel Moore (as "Desdemona"), Louis Polan, Ernest Rowan, William Sauter, Jeannette Sherwin, Robert Thorne, Thomas F. Tracey.
- (1932) Stage Play: Troilus and Cressida. Tragedy (revival). Written by William Shakespeare. Arranged in three acts by Henry Herbert. Directed by Henry Herbert. B.S. Moss's Broadway Theatre: 6 Jun 1932- 13 Jun 1932 (8 performances). Cast: Edith Barrett, Charles Brokaw, Eliot Cabot, Alan Campbell, Leo G. Carroll (as "Aeneas, a Trojan officer"), Charles Coburn (as "Ajax, officer in the Greek expeditionary force"), Ivah Wills Coburn, F. Sayre Crawley, Augustin Duncan, Edwin T. Emery, Reynolds Evans (as "Achilles, officer in the Greek expeditionary force"), Ruth Garland, George Gaul, Burford Hampden, Gordon Hart , Eileen Huban, Allyn Joslyn (as "Diomedes, officer in the Greek expeditionary force"), P.J. Kelly, John Kramer, Howard Kyle, Jerome Lawler, Robert Le Seuer, Philip Leigh (as "Helenus, Priam's son"), Eugene Powers, Herbert Ranson, William Sams, Margherita Sargent, Otis Skinner (as "Thersites, a civilian attached to the Greek expeditionary force"), Blanche Yurka (as "Helen, formerly wife of Menelaus"). Produced by The Players Club. Theatre trivia: The venue, with 1761-seats (making it among the largest of Broadway's theatres) is now known simply as the Broadway Theatre. It opened in 1924 as a dual movie and theatrical venue, changing solely to stage productions in 1930. It reverted to cinema in 1935, hosting the celebrated 1940 Fantasia (1940) premier before reverting back to legitimate productions.
- (1932) Stage Play: Cyrano de Bergerac. Comedy (revival). Written by Edmond Rostand. Book adapted by Brian Hooker. Directed by Walter Hampden. New Amsterdam Theatre: 26 Dec 1932- Jan 1933 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Walter Hampden (as "Cyrano de Bergerac, a Gascon"), Laura Barrett, Bessie Beatty, W. Messenger Bellis, Pickering Brown, Guy Collins, Eliza Connolly, Alice Dalton, Murray D'Arcy, Joseph V. De Santis, Mary Alice Dill, Joanna Dorman, Reynolds Evans (as "Le Comte de Guiche"), Howard Galt, Wanda Gelb, Evelyn Goodrich, Edward Everett Hale, C. Norman Hammond (as "Carbon de Castel Jaloux, Captain of the Gascony Cadets"), Gordon Hart, Wilfred Jessop, Whitford Kane (as "Ragueneau, a pastry cook"), P.J. Kelly, Spencer Kimbell, Robert B. Mantell, Jr., John P. Marquand (as "D'Artagnan, Cadet of Gascoyne"), Lewis McMichael, Esther Mitchell, Mabel Moore, Helen O'Connor, Gerald O'Neill, Frank Terry (as "Bertrandou, the fifer"), James R. Pray, Edwin Ross, Ernest Rowan, Phyllis Sallee, William Sauter, Harvey Sayers, Robert C. Schnitzer, John D. Seymour, Cyrus H. Staehle, Arthur Stenning, George Thorp, Mildred Vail, Evelyn Venable, Katherine Warren (as "Roxane, Cyrano's cousin"), Henry Warwick, Margaret Watson, Harold Williams, J.P. Wilson. Produced by Walter Hampden.
- (1934) Stage Play: Romeo and Juliet. Tragedy (revival). Written by William Shakespeare. Adapted by Katharine Cornell. Choreographed by Martha Graham. Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner. Directed by Guthrie McClintic. Martin Beck Theatre: 20 Dec 1934- Feb 1935 (closing date unknown/77 performances). Cast: Brian Aherne (as "Mercutio, kinsman to the prince and friend to Romeo"), Edith Allaire, Gilmore Bush, Robert Champlain, Arthur Chatterton, Katharine Cornell (as "Juliet, daughter to Capulet"), Margaret Craven, Jacqueline DeWit, Angus Duncan, John Emery (as "Benvolio, nephew to Montague and friend to Romeo"), Edith Evans (as "Nurse to Juliet"), Reynolds Evans (as "Escalus, prince of Verona"), Brenda Forbes, John Gordon Gage, Franklin Gray, William Hopper, Lois Jameson, Agnete Johannson, Paul Julian, George Macready (as "Paris, a young nobleman, kinsman to the prince"), Ruth March, Irby Marshall, Albert McCleery, John Miltern (as "Montague"), Irving Morrow, Ralph Nelson, Moroni Olsen (as "Capulet"), Basil Rathbone (as "Romeo, son of Montague"), Pamela Simpson, Charles R. Thorne, David Vivian, Charles Waldron, Orson Welles (as "Tybalt, nephew to Lady Capulet," and "Chorus"). Produced by Katharine Cornell.
- (1946) Stage Play: Lovely Me. Comedy. Written by Jacqueline Susann and Beatrice Cole. Music by Arthur Siegel and Jeff Bailey. Directed by Jessie Royce Landis. Adelphi Theatre: (moved to The Coronet Theatre from 6 Jan 1947- close): 25 Dec 1946- 25 Jan 1947 (37 performances). Cast: Joyce Allan, Mischa Auer (as "Stanislaus Stanislavsky"), Barbara Bulgakova, June Dayton, Reynolds Evans (as "Thomas van Stokes"), Luba Malina, Paul Marlin, Millard Mitchell (as "Mike Shane"), Houston Richards, Arthur Siegel. Produced by David Lowe.
- (1938) Stage Play: Hamlet. Tragedy (revival).
- (1941) Stage Play: Out of the Frying Pan. Written by Francis Swann. Directed by Alexander Kirkland. Windsor Theatre: 11 Feb 1941- 10 May 1941 (104 performances). Cast: Harry Antrim [credited as Henry Antrim] (as "Mr. Coburn"), Barbara Bel Geddes (as "Dottie Coburn") [Broadway debut], Nancy Douglass (as "Kate Ault"), Alfred Drake (as "Norman Reese"), Reynolds Evans (as "Mr. Kenny"), Arthur Holland (as "Mac"), Florence MacMichael (as "Muriel Foster") [Broadway debut], George Mathews (as "Joe"), Sellwyn Myers (as "Tony Dennison"), Mabel Paige (as "Mrs. Garnet"), Louise Snyder (as "Marge Benson"), William W. Terry (as "George Bodell"). Produced by William Deering and Alexander Kirkland.
- (1942) Stage Play: The Strings, My Lord, Are False. Drama. Written by Paul Vincent Carroll. Directed by Elia Kazan. Royale Theatre: 19 May 1942- 30 May 1942 (15 performances). Cast: Frances Bavier (as "Sarah"), Philip Bourneuf (as "Jerry Hoare"), Ralph Cullinan (as "Alec"), Constance Dowling (as "Maisie Gillespie "), Reynolds Evans (as "Monsignor Skinner"), Ruth Gordon (as "Iris Ryan"), Margot Grahame (as "Sadie O'Neill"), Walter Hampden (as "Canon Courtenay"), Hurd Hatfield (as "Religious Man"), Colin Keith-Johnston, Will Lee (as "Louis Liebens"), Sherman MacGregor, Alice MacKenzie, John McKee, Anna Minot, Gordon Nelson, Hale Norcross (as "Provost Grahamson"), Joan H. Shepard, Art Smith, Tom Tully, Ruth Vivian (as "Ma Morrisey"), Anna Minot Warren. Produced by Edward Choate. Produced in association with Alexander Kirkland and John R. Sheppard Jr.
- (1942) Stage Play: What Big Ears!
- (1939) Stage Play: I Know What I Like. Comedy.
- (1942) Stage Play: The Doughgirls. Comedy. Written by Joseph Fields. Directed by George S. Kaufman. Lyceum Theatre: 30 Dec 1942- 29 Jul 1944 (671 performances). Cast: Walter Beck, Reed Brown Jr., Theodore Bryant, Maurice Burke, King Calder (as "Julian Cadman"), George Calvert, Mary Cooper, George Davis, Reynolds Evans (as "Chaplain Stevens"), Virginia Field (as "Edna"), Arlene Francis (as "Natalia Chodorov"), Sydney Grant, Harold Grau (as "A Stranger"), Mildred Haines, Vinton Hayworth, Henry Howell, Edward Joyce, Kermit Kegley, William J. Kelly, James MacDonald, Joseph Martin, Harold Murphy, Doris Nolan, Joseph Olney, Maxim Panteleieff, Edward H. Robins, Natalie Schafer (as "Sylvia"), Frank Taft, Jerome Thor, Thomas F. Tracey (as "Admiral Owens"), Arleen Whelan, Hugh Williamson, Ethel Wilson, Bernard Winter. Produced by Max Gordon.
- (1944) Stage Play: The Late George Apley. Comedy. Written by John P. Marquand and George S. Kaufman. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John P. Marquand. Scenic Design by Stewart Chaney. Costume Design by Stewart Chaney. Press Representative: John Peter Toohey [final Broadway credit]. Directed by George S. Kaufman. Lyceum Theatre: 23 Nov 1944- 17 Nov 1945 (384 performances). Cast: Leo G. Carroll (as "George Apley"), Janet Beecher (as "Catherine Apley"), Margaret Dale (as "Amelia Newcombe"), Percy Waram (as "Roger Newcombe"), Mabel Acker (as "Emily Southworth"), Joan Chandler (as "Eleanor Apley"), John Conway (as "Howard Boulder"), Sayre Crawley (as "Henry"), Reynolds Evans (as "Horatio Willing"), David McKay (as "John Apley"), Mrs. Priestly Morrison (as "Margaret"), Margaret Phillips (as "Agnes Willing"), Catherine Proctor (as "Jane Willing"), Byron Russell (as "Wilson"), Howard St. John (as "Julian H. Dole"), Ivy Troutman (as "Lydia Leyton"). Produced by Max Gordon. Note: Filmed by 20th Century Fox Film Corp. as The Late George Apley (1947).
- (1951) Stage Play: King Richard II. Historical drama (revival). Written by William Shakespeare.
- (1951) Stage Play: The Taming of the Shrew. Comedy (revival). Written by William Shakespeare.
- (1952) Stage Play: Fancy Meeting You Again.
- (1953) Stage Play: The Solid Gold Cadillac. Comedy. Written by Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman. Thanks to the narrator, Fred Allen. Special thanks for his contribution of "Spartacus to the Gladiators" to Marc Connelly. Directed by George S. Kaufman. Belasco Theatre (moved to the Music Box Theatre on 10 May 1954- close): 5 Nov 1953- 12 Feb 1955 (526 performances). Cast: Josephine Hull, Loring Smith (as "Edward L. McKeever"), Howard Adelman (as "I.N.S."), Fred Allen [narration; recorded voice only], Mark Allen (as "Dwight Brookfield, News Broadcaster"), Reynolds Evans (as "Warren Gillie"), Henry Jones, Carl Judd (as "The A.P."), Geoffrey Lumb (as "T. John Blessington"), Lorraine MacMartin (as "Estelle Evans, News Broadcaster"), Gloria Maitland, Al McGranary (as "The U.P."), Vera Fuller Mellish (as "Miss Logan"), Henry Norell (as "Bill Parker, News Broadcaster"), Wendell K. Phillips (as "Alfred Metcalfe"), Jack Ruth (as "Mark Jenkins"), Charlotte Van Lein (as "Miss L'Arriere"), Mary Welch (as "Miss Amelia Shotgraven"). Produced by Max Gordon. Note: Filmed as The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956). Music Box Theatre owned and operated by Irving Berlin who had no direct involvement in production.
- (1957) Stage Play: Eugenia.
- (1957) Stage Play: Compulsion. Drama. Dramatization (Producer's Version) by: Meyer Levin. Original Music by Cy Coleman. Musical Director: Cy Coleman. Scenic Design by Peter Larkin. Costume Design by John Boxer. Lighting Design by Charles Elson. Directed by Alex Segal. Ambassador Theatre: 24 Oct 1957- 22 Feb 1958 (140 performances). Cast: Roddy McDowall (as "Artie Straus"), Dean Stockwell (as "Judd Steiner [1924]"), Howard Da Silva (as "Horn, The Prosecuting Attorney"), Ben Astar (as "Charles Kessler/Dr. Allman"), Ina Balin (as "Ruth Goldenberg"), Helen Baron (as "Sandra Mannheimer"), Julian Barry (as "Willie Weiss"), James Bender (as "Tom Daly, A Reporter"), Joseph Beruh (as "A Prison Guard/A Drugstore Clerk/A Waiter/Danny Mines, A Reporter"), Michael Constantine (as "Al, Owner of a Speakeasy/Jonathan Wilk, The Defense Attorney"), Joan Croydon (as "Mrs. Straus "), Edward Cullen (as "Judge Matthewson"), Roger De Koven (as "Ferdinand Feldscher "), Reynolds Evans (as "Dr. Stauffer"), Chris Gampel (as "Judd Steiner [today]/Emil, The Steiners' Chauffeur"), Stefan Gierasch (as "Max Steiner"), Gerald Gordon (as "Sid Silver [today]/Sid Silver [1924]), Mark Gordon (as "A Bartender/Prison Guard"), Lloyd Gough (as "Dr. McNarry"), Michael Gough (as "Dr. Ball"), James Greene (as "Mr. Farmer/Dr. Vincenti"), Ted Gunther (as "Swasey, A Detective"), Earl Hammond (as "James Straus"), Muriel Higgins (as "First Girl"), Bernard Lenrow (as "Judah Steiner Jr."), Barbara Loden (as "Myra Seligman"), John Marley (as "Mike Prager/Another Reporter"), Barbara Miners (as "Third Girl"), Gina Petrushka (as "Elsie Kessler"), Suzanne Pleshette (as "Fourth Girl"), James Ray (as "Lyman/A Third Reporter/Raphael Goetz"), Dorothy Raymond (as "A Medium/Aunt Bertha"), Patricia Roe (as "A Girl on the Telephone/Second Girl"), Luchino Solito de Solis (as "Billy Straus"), Paul Stevens (as "Padua, Assistant to the Prosecutor"), D.J. Sullivan (as "Milt Lewis"), Elliot Sullivan (as "McNamara, A Detective"), Maybelle Wright (as "Peg Sweet/A Newspaper Woman"), Ben Yaffee (as "Oliver Steger"). Produced by Michael Myerberg. Produced in association with Len S. Gruenberg. Note: This was a thinly veiled dramatization of the infamous Leopold-Leob murder. Filmed as Compulsion (1959).
- (1961) Stage Play: First Love.
- (1962) Stage Play: Lord Pengo. Comedy.
- (1964) Stage Play The Deputy. Written by Rolf Hochhuth. Book adapted by Jerome Rothenberg. Directed by Herman Shumlin. Brooks Atkinson Theatre: 26 Feb 1964- 28 Nov 1964 (316 performances). Cast: Victor Arnold, Richard Bengal (as "Brother Iranaeus"), Ion Berger, Idwal Bowen, Jeremy Brett (as "Father Riccardo Fontant, S.J."), Philip Bruns, Reynolds Evans (as "Papal Nuncio in Berlin"), Paul Flores, Stefan Gierasch, Roger Hamilton, Ben Hammer, Denise Joyce, Pepa Kantor, Ron Leibman (as "Captain Salzer"), Jock Livingston, Carl Low, Fred McGonagill, Gerald E. McGonagill, James Mitchell, Albert M. Ottenheimer, Guy Repp (as "Photographer/Officer of the Pope's Guard"), 'Fred Stewart (I)' (as "Cardinal"), David Thomas, Maria Tucci, Emlyn Williams, Ian Wolfe (as "Father General"). Produced by Herman Shumlin, Alfred Crown and Zvi Kolitz.
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