- (1909 - 1940) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1909) Stage Play: The Revellers. Comedy. Written by Charles Richman. Maxine Elliott's Theatre: 7 Sep 1909- Sep 1909 (closing date unknown/15 performances). Cast: Charles Richman, Jack Randolph, Harriet Anderson, William 'Stage' Boyd, Ida Conquest, Dorothy Dean, Frank De Kum, Vera Finlay, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Frank Kingdon, Thais Lawton [Broadway debut], W.C. Masson, Reeva May, May McKenzie, George Nash, Henry Van Cleve, Florence Robertson [final Broadway role], Jane Rogers, Mabel Rowland, Alma Sedley. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1909) Stage Play: The School for Scandal. Comedy. Written by Richard B. Sheridan. New Theatre: 27 Dec 1909- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: A.E. Anson, Albert Bruning, Louis Calvert, Rose Coghlan, Grace George (as "Lady Teazle"), Ferdinand Gottschalk, E.M. Holland, Matheson Lang, Thais Lawton, Henry Stanford, Jacob Wendell, Olive Wyndham, Cecil Yapp, Oswald Yorke. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1909) Stage Play: Don. Written by Rudolph Besier [earliest Broadway credit]. New Theatre: 30 Dec 1909- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: Leah Bateman-Hunter, 'Harriet Otis Dellenbaugh', Margaret Fareleigh, E.M. Holland, Matheson Lang, Thais Lawton, William McVay, Beverly Sitgreaves. Produced by Lee Shubert. and J.J. Shubert.
- (1910) Stage Play: Liz the Mother. Written by Frederick Fenn and Richard Pryce. New Theatre: 3 Jan 1910 (1 performance). Cast: Jessie Busley, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson, Thais Lawton, Caroline Newcombe, Annie Russell, John Tansey, Oswald Yorke.
- (1910) Stage Play: The Witch. Written by Hans Wiers-Jenssen. Book adapted by Hermann Hagedorn. New Theatre: 14 Feb 1910- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: Charles Balsar, Julia Blanc, Margaret Fareleigh, G.F. Hannam-Clark, Victor Johns, Ben Johnson, Bertha Kalich, Elsie Kearns, Thais Lawton, W.J. Locke, William McVay, Caroline Newcombe, Wilfred North, Guy Bates Post, Mrs. Sol Smith, Cecil Yapp. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1910) Stage Play: Brand. Written by Henrik Ibsen. New Theatre: 14 Mar 1910- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: Lee Baker, Robert Homans, Thais Lawton, Annie Russell. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1910) Stage Play: The Thunderbolt. Written by Arthur Wing Pinero. New Theatre: 12 Nov 1910- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: A.E. Anson, Albert Bruning, Louis Calvert, George Clarke, Patricia Collinge, Edwin Cushman, 'Harriet Otis Dellenbaugh', Frank Gilmore, Ferdinand Gottschalk, E.M. Holland, Ben Johnson, Thais Lawton, Olive Oliver, Helen Reimer, Louise Seymour, Olive Wyndham. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1911) Stage Play: Vanity Fair. Written by Robert Hichens and Cosmo Gordon Lennox. Based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. New Theatre: 7 Jan 1911- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: Lee Baker, Albert Bruning, Rose Coghlan, Edwin Cushman, Pedro de Cordoba, Frank Gilmore, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Ben Johnson, Gail Kane, Elsie Herndon Kearns, Thais Lawton, Eleanor Scott L'Estelle, Olive Oliver, Helen Reimer, Leila Repton, John Sutherland. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1911) Stage Play: A Single Man. Comedy. Written by Hubert Henry Davies. Directed by Hubert Henry Davies. Empire Theatre: 4 Sep 1911- Dec 1911 (closing date unknown/104 performances). Cast: Mary Boland, Helen Bolte, Clara Bracy, Frances Comstock, John Drew, Louise Drew, Thomas Kelly, Thais Lawton, Carroll McComas, Cecilia Radclyffe, Lewise Seymour, Ivan F. Simpson. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1915) Stage Play: John Gabriel Borkman. Drama (revival). Written by Henrik Ibsen. Directed by Emanuel Reicher [earliest Broadway credit]. Lyceum Theatre: 1 Apr 1915- 3 Apr 1915 (3 performances). Cast: Inez Banghart, Paul Gordon, Alice Harrington, Alma Kruger, Thais Lawton, Emanuel Reicher (as "John Gabriel Borkman"), Edith Seabury, Roland Young. Produced by Modern Stage.
- (1915) Stage Play: The Chief.
- (1916) Stage Play: Caliban of the Yellow Sands. Musical. Written by Percy MacKaye. Directed by Joseph Urban and Richard Orynski. Lewisohn Stadium of City College of New York: 24 May 1916- Jun 1916 (closing date unknown/10 performances). Cast: Beatrice Beckley (as "Anne Page"), Eric Blind (as "Lorenzo/Antony"), Lionel Braham (as "Caliban"), Matthew Briggs (as "War"), Maurice Cass (as "Pandarus"), Viola Compton (as "Mistress Ford"), Cyril Courtney (as "The Banished Duke"), Clifford Devereaux (as "Eros"), John Drew (as "Shakespeare"), Augustin Duncan (as "Horatio"), Fred Eric (as "Romeo/Orlando"), Marion Evenson (as "Charmian/Perdita"), Edward Fielding (as "Death"), Etienne Girardot (as "Sir Hugh Evans"), Gladys Hanson (as "Cressida"), Gareth Hughes (as "Ariel"), Howard Kyle (as "Prospero"), Mary Lawton (as "The Spirit of Time"), Thais Lawton (as "Mistress Page"), Frederick Lewis (as "King Henry The Fifth"), Henry Ludlowe (as "Brutus"), Allan Ross MacDougall (as "Boy"), Clarence Major (as "Jessica/Attendant"), Robert Mantell (as "Hamlet"), Edith Wynne Matthison (as "Miranda"), Emanuel Reicher (as "Ghost of Caesar/Ghost of Hamlet's Father"), Hedwiga Reicher (as "Cleopatra") [final Broadway role], Brigham Royce (as "Lust"), John Sahlveck (as "Lucius"), William H. Sams (as "Marcelius/Jacques"), Margherita Sargent (as "St. Agnes"), George F. Smithfield (as "Adam"), Joseph Sterling (as "Troilus/Florizel"), Joseph Whitmore (as "Sycorax'), Thomas A. Wise' (as "Sir John Falstaff"), Margaret Wycherly (as "Juliet").
- (1916) Stage Play: The Guilty Man. Written by Ruth Helen Davis and Charles Klein. Astor Theatre: 17 Aug 1916- Oct 1916 (closing date unknown/52 performances). Cast: Martin Alsop, Paul Coucet [cast records likely in error; actor is probably Paul Doucet], William Devereaux, Samuel Edwards, Walter Fenner, Irene Fenwick, Clarence Handyside, Gareth Hughes, Thais Lawton, Leonard Mudie, Pinna Nesbit, Stuart Robson, Charles Seiter, Lowell Sherman, Austin Webb, Emily Ann Wellman. Produced by A.H. Woods. Note: Mr. Klein had died aboard the Lusitania on 7 May 1915.
- (1917) Stage Play: The Masquerader. Drama.
- (1919) Stage Play: The Crimson Alibi. Melodrama.
- (1920) Stage Play: The Blue Flame. Melodrama. Written by George V. Hobart and John Willard, from the play by Leta Vance Nicholson. Shubert Theatre: 15 Mar 1920- Apr 1920 (closing date unknown/48 performances). Cast: Theda Bara, Joseph Buckley, Helen Curry, Alan Dinehart (as "John Varnum"), Donald Gallagher, Jack Gibson, Henry Hebert [credited as Henry Herbert], Kenneth Hill, Earl House, Frank Hughes, DeWitt Jennings, Tessie Lawrence, Thais Lawton, Robert Lee, Martin Malley, Harry Minturn, Tom O'Hara, Royal C. Stout. Produced by A.H. Woods.
- (1921) Stage Play: The Wandering Jew. Drama.
- (1922) Stage Play: The Exciters. Comedy. Written by Martin Brown. Directed by Edgar Selwyn. Times Square Theatre: 22 Sep 1922- Oct 1922 (closing date unknown/43 performances). Cast: Marsh Allen (as "Hilary Rand"), Tallulah Bankhead (as "Rufus Rand"), Alan Dinehart (as "Dan MacGee"), Sidney Dudley (as "Second Man"), Florence Flinn (as "Vaughn"), Echlin Gayer (as "Joselyn Basset-Brown"), Roy Gordon (as "Flash Fagan"), Jerry Hart (as "First Man"), Robert Hyman (as "Sumter Dalrymple"), Frederick Karr (as "Mr. Rackham"), Wright Kramer (as "Seymour Katz"), Thais Lawton (as "Mrs. Hilary Rand'), Aline MacMahon' (as "Miss Files"), Enid Markey (as "Ermintrude Marilley"), Albert Marsh (as "Chauffeur"), Chester Morris (as "Lexington Dalrymple"), Edwin Walter (as "St. Joe"). Produced by The Selwyns.
- (1923) Stage Play: Jitta's Atonement. Comedy/tragedy.
- (1923) Stage Play: Thumbs Down. Melodrama. Written by Myron C. Fagan [earliest Broadway credit]. Directed by Priestly Morrison. 49th Street Theatre: 6 Aug 1923- Aug 1923 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Herbert Bruce (as "Harding"), John Hammond Dailey (as "Samuel Hart"), H. Dudley Hawley (as "Billy Camp"), Harvey Hayes (as "Charlie"), William Ingersoll (as "Judge Richard Fowler"), William Ives (as "Dopey Brown"), Howard Lang (as "Emmett Sheridan"), Thais Lawton (as "Virginia Sheridan"), Sue MacManamy (as "Florence Sheridan"), John Marston (as "Larry Fowler"), Thomas H. McKnight (as "Officer Moulton"), Earl Mitchell (as "Officer McGraw"), Purnell Pratt (as "James Cantwell"), W.J. Townsend (as "Coroner Reynolds"), John Wylie (as "Officer O'Neill"). Produced by C.C. Wanamaker.
- (1923) Stage Play: The Blue Bird. Fantasy (revival).
- (1924) Stage Play: Two Strangers From Nowhere. Drama. Written by Myron C. Fagan. Cast: Peggy Allenby (as "Louise Huldane"), Frank Allworth (as "Bryerly"), Theodore Babcock (as "Jerome Hessler"), James Bradbury (as "John Gordon"), Richard Gordon (as "Dr. Allan Gordon"), Gail Kane (as "Helen Hessler"), Norval Keedwell (as "Bob Grant"), Thais Lawton (as "Aunt Martha"), Fritz Leiber (as "Angelo Desdichado"), Frances McGrath (as "Florence Gordon"). Produced by Myron C. Fagan.
- (1924) Stage Play: The Red Falcon. Drama. Written by Lillian Trimble Bradley and George Broadhurst. Broadhurst Theatre: 7 Oct 1924- Oct 1924 (closing date unknown/15 performances).
- (1925) Stage Play: Cain.
- (1927) Stage Play: Mister Romeo. Written by Harry Wagstaff Gribble and Wallace A. Mannheimer. Directed by Edward Eliscu. Wallack's Theatre: 5 Sep 1927- Sep 1927 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Joseph Baird (as "Ralph Shelton"), Julie Chandler (as "Maybelle"), G. Pat Collins (as "Buck Edwards"), Sarah Gabler (as "Bobbie"), Aileen Grenier (as "Rose DuFrayne"), Frank W. Hilliard (as "Jack Wainwright"), Thais Lawton (as "Ethel Trundle"), Eleanor Livingston (as "Loretta"), Isabelle Lowe (as "Babe Pierson"), Jane Meredith (as "Maisie Clark"), J.C. Nugent (as "Carleton Hazleton"), Sherrold Page (as "Harry Wilkins"), Sheila Trent (as "Helen Hughes") [Broadway debut]. Produced by Murray Phillips.
- (1928) Stage Play: Napoleon.
- (1929) Stage Play: The Novice and the Duke. Comedy.
- (1930) Stage Play: The Royal Virgin.
- (1930) Stage Play: The Ninth Guest. Melodrama/mystery.
- (1931) Stage Play: Philip Goes Forth. Comedy. Written and directed by George Kelly. Biltmore Theatre: 12 Jan 1931- Apr 1931 (closing date unknown/97 performances). Cast: Marion Barney, Harry Ellerbe (as "Philip") [Broadway debut], Madge Evans (as "Cynthia"), Mary Gildea (as "Hazel"), Harry Gresham, Thurston Hall (as "Mr. Eldridge"), Thais Lawton (as "Mrs. Randolph"), Donna Pasedeloup, Dorothy Stickney (as "Miss Krail"), Ralph Urmy, Harold Webster, Cora Witherspoon (as "Mrs. Oliver"). Produced by Laurence Rivers Inc.
- (1933) Stage Play: Going Gay. Comedy. Written by William Miles. Directed by Donald Blackwell. Morosco Theatre: 3 Aug 1933- Aug 1933 (closing date unknown/25 performances). Cast: Chase Adams (as "Footman"), Homer Barton (as "Ridges"), Diane Bourget [credited as Diane Bourget] (as "Ann Appleton"), Richard Gregg [credited as Richard N. Gregg] (as "Pullman Porter"), Charles Halton (as "Benny"), Edith King (as "Daisy Appleton"), Walter Kingsford (as "T. Courtland-Smith"), Thais Lawton (as "Mrs. Smith"), Alan Marshall (as "Bradford Ward Williams"), Barnett Parker (as "Bing"), Rita Grapel (as "H.R.H. The Grand Duchess Pukalschik"), George Walcott (as "George Smith"). Produced by Select Theatres Corporation.
- (1933) Stage Play: Birthright. Drama. Written by Richard Maibaum. Directed by Robert Rossen. 49th Street Theatre: 21 Nov 1933- Nov 1933 (closing date unknown/7 performances). Cast: Jay Addison (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"), Don Beddoe (as "Kurt Strasser"), Julio Brown, Alan Bunce, Rose Burdick (as "Elga"), Charles P. Burrows, Stephen Courtleigh (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"), Harold Elliott (as "Friedrich Lowenberg"), Sylvia Field, Alan Gould (as "Max"), Joseph Grant (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"), Dennis Gurney (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"), Thais Lawton, David Leonard, Henry Levian, Montagu Love, Charlotte Reynolds, Hayden Rorke [credited as Hayden Roike] (as "Karl"), Don Shelton (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"), Edgar Stehli, Beau Tilden, Herbert Warren, Courtney White, Larry Williams (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"). Produced by Robert Rossen and Irving Barrett. Note: This rather obscure production was likely the first to depict the recent rise of Nazi Germany.
- (1935) Stage Play: Times Have Changed. Drama.
- (1937) Stage Play: Love in My Fashion. Comedy. Written by Charles George. Directed by Melville Burke. Ritz Theatre: 3 Dec 1937- Dec 1937 (closing date unknown/2 performances). Cast: Dorothy Bernard, Julio Brown, Claire Carleton, Ruth Chorpenning, William David, Day Eliot, Luella Gear, Tookie Hunter, Richard Jack, Louise Kirtland, Thais Lawton (as "Mrs. Robert Andrews"), Donald MacKenzie, Sherling Oliver, G. Albert Smith (as "Christopher Coffman"). Produced by Morris Green and James J. Fero.
- (1940) Stage Play: Romantic Mr. Dickens.
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