- (1956) Stage Play: The Great Sebastians. Melodrama.
- (1953) Stage Play: The Prescott Proposals. Comedy. Produced by Leland Hayward.
- (1953 - 1958) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (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") [final Broadway role], 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 Oliver Steger"). Replacement actors: Joseph Beruh (as "Al, Owner of a Speakeasy"), Frank Conroy (as "Jonathan Wilk, The Defense Attorney"), Elizabeth Hubbard (as "Sandra Mannheimer/Third Girl"), Suzanne Pleshette (as "Ruth Goldenberg"). 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).
- (1954) Stage Play: On Your Toes. Musical comedy (revival). Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Book by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and George Abbott. Musical Director: Salvatore Dell'Isola. Music orchestrated by Don Walker. Scenic Design by Oliver Smith. Costume Design by Irene Sharaff. Choreographed by George Balanchine. Directed by George Abbott. 46th Street Theatre: 11 Oct 1946- 4 Dec 1954 (64 performances). Cast: Bobby Van (as "Junior, 15 years later"), Vera Zorina (as "Vera Barnova"), Elaine Stritch (as "Peggy Porterfield"), Ted Adkins, Marvin Arnold, Ben Astar (as "Sergei Alexandrovitch"), Johnny Bowen, Phyllis Campbell, George Church, Kay Coulter (as "Frankie Frayne") [final Broadway role], Lillian D'Honau, Patricia Drylie, Timmy Everett, Nathaniel Frey, Katia Geneznova, Carolyn George, Arthur Grahl, Marilyn Hale, Edward Kerrigan, Dorene Kilmer, Helen Kramer, Jack Leigh, Robert Lindgren, Sonya Lindgren, Paula Lloyd, Barbara Michaels, John Nola, Nicholas Orloff, Edward Pfeiffer, Lois Platt, Nina Popova, John Robb, Joshua Shelley, Sigyn, Ruth Sobotka, Mary Stanton, Carol Stevens, Patrick Welch, Patricia Wilkes, Eleanor Williams, Jack Williams, Wendy Winn, David Winters, Bertram Wood. Produced by George Abbott.
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