Other works

(1931 - 1951) Active on Broadway in the following productions:

(1931) Stage Play: Springtime for Henry. Comedy.

(1933) Stage Play: Springtime for Henry. Comedy (revival).

(1934) Stage Play: Brittle Heaven. Drama. Written by Vincent York and Frederik Pohl. Incidental music by Rudolf Forst. Scenic Design by P. Dodd Ackerman. Directed by Clarence Derwent. Vanderbilt Theatre: 13 Nov 1934- Dec 1934 (closing date unknown/23 performances). Cast: Edith Atwater (as "Helen Hunt"), Dorothy Gish (as "Emily Dickinson"), Grant Gordon (as "Horatio Turnbull"), Elizabeth Heaslip (as "Maggie"), Katherine Hirsch (as "Lavinia Dickinson"), Helen Huberth, Robert Le Seuer, Earl McDonald (as "Austin Dickinson"), Helen Ray, Edward Ryan Jr., Albert Dekker [credited as Albert Van Dekker] (as "Captain Edward Bissell Hunt"), Herbert Warren (as "Samuel Bowles"). Producer by Dave Schooler.

(1935) Stage Play: This Our House. Drama.

(1936) Stage Play: The Masque of Kings.

(1936) Stage Play: The Country Wife. Comedy. Written by William Wycherley [posthumous credit]. Directed by Gilbert Miller. Henry Miller's Theatre: 1 Dec 1936- Feb 1937 (closing date unknown/89 performances). Cast: Stephen Ker Appleby (as "Mr. Dorilant"), Edith Atwater (as "Mrs. Dainty Fidget, sister of Sir Jasper"), Violet Besson (as "Old Lady Squeamish"), Roger Blankenship (as "Ensemble"), Irene Browne (as "My Lady Fidget"), Flora Campbell (as Ensemble"), George Carr (as "A Quack"), Louis Dayton (as "Parson"), Salo Douday (as "Ensemble"), Catherine Emburie (as "Ensemble"), Ruth Gordon (as "Mrs. Margery Pinchwife"), George Graham (as "Sir Jasper Fidget"), David Gray (as "Ensemble"), Frances Greet (as "Ensemble"), Louis Hector (as "Mr. Sparkish"), Raymond Johnson (as "Boy"), William Justus (as "Ensemble"), Linda Lee (as "Ensemble"), Roger Livesey (as "Mr. Horner"), Elizabeth Malloch (as "Ensemble"), Helena Pickard (as "Mrs. Squeamish"), Anthony Quayle (as "Mr. Harcourt") [Broadway debut], Warren Reid (as "Ensemble"), Lewis Sealy (as "Ensemble"), Reginald Stanborough Ensemble"), Donald Stevens (as "Ensemble"), Alice Thompson (as "Ensemble"), Helen Trenholme (as "Miss Alithea, sister of Pinchwife"), Jane Vaughn (as "Lucy, Alithea's maid"), Percy Waram (as "Mr. Pinchwife"). Produced by Gilbert Miller. Produced in association with Helen Hayes. Note: Work has been produced several times on film and on TV, first adapted as a short, The Country Girl (1915).

(1937) Stage Play: Susan and God.

(1939) Stage Play: The Man Who Came to Dinner. Comedy. Written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Featuring a song by Cole Porter. Directed by George S. Kaufman. Music Box Theatre: 16 Oct 1939- 12 Jul 1941 (739 performances). Cast: Monty Woolley (as "Sheridan Whiteside"), Barbara Adams, Edith Atwater (as "Maggie Cutler"), David Burns, Dudley Clements, Edward Fisher, Carol Goodner, Virginia Hammond, Michael Harvey, John Hoyt (credited as John Hoysradt), Carl Johnson, Curtis Karpe, Daniel Landon, Donald Landon, Daniel Leone, George Lessey, Gordon Merrick, Mrs. Priestly Morrison, Theodore Newton, Edmonia Nolley, LeRoi Operti (as "Professor Metz"), William Postance, George Probert, DeWitt Purdue, Robert Rea, Phil Sheridan, Rodney Stewart, Ruth Vivian, Charles Washington, Jack Whitman, Mary Wickes (as "Miss Preen"), Barbara Wooddell, Harold Woolf. Produced by Sam Harris.

(1940) Stage Play: Retreat to Pleasure.

(1942) Stage Play: Johnny on a Spot.

(1942) Stage Play: Broken Journey. Drama. Written by Andrew Rosenthal. Directed by Arthur Hopkins. Henry Miller's Theatre: 23 Jun 1942- 11 Jul 1942 (23 performances). Cast: Warner Anderson (as "Dan Hardeen"), Edith Atwater (as "Christina Landers"), Helen Carew (as "Essie"), Zita Johann (as "Rachel Thatcher Arlen") [final Broadway role], Joan McSweeney (as "Trina"), Phyllis Povah (as "Belle Newell"), Tom Powers (as "Hale Thatcher"). Produced by Martin Burton.

(1942) Stage Play: R. U. R. Drama (revival).

(1945) Stage Play: State of the Union. Comedy.

(1947) Stage Play: Parlor Story.

(1947) Stage Play: The Gentleman From Athens. Comedy. Written by Emmet Lavery. Scenic Design by Ralph Alswang. Lighting Design by Ralph Alswang. Directed by Sam Wanamaker. Mansfield Theatre: 9 Dec 1947- 13 Dec 1947 (7 performances). Cast: Edith Atwater (as "Lee Kilpatrick"), Leonard Auerbach (as "Radio and Newsreel Crew"), Leopold Badia (as "Congressman Andrews"), Ethel Browning (as "Miss Mary Kilpatrick"), Feodor Chaliapin (as "Igor Stepenov"), Oliver Crawford (as "Radio and Newsreel Crew"), Elsie May Gordon (as "Congressman Stringley"), Gavin Gordon (as "Big Ed Lawrence"), Alan Hewitt (as "Morgan Kilpatrick"), Arthur Jarrett (as "Congressman Harnell"), Lorance Kerr (as "News Reel Director"), Edward B. Latimer (as "Congressman Borgsen"), Lou Polan (as "Mike Rykowski"), Anthony Quinn (as "Hon. Stephen Socrates Christopher"), Franks Rowan (as "Radio and Newsreel Crew"), Creighton Thompson (as "Daniel") [final Broadway role], Watson White (as "Cousin Vincent Kilpatrick"). Produced by Martin Gosch and Eunice Healy.

(1949) Stage Play: Metropole. Comedy. Written by William Walden. Directed by George S. Kaufman. Lyceum Theatre: 6 Dec 1949- 7 Dec 1949 (2 performances). Cast: Edith Atwater (as "Miss Harrington"), Malcolm Lee Beggs, Reed Brown Jr. (as "Frederick M. Hill"), Jean Carson, George Cotton (as "Furniture Mover"), Royal Dano (as "Ellington"), Reynolds Evans (as "Crowell"), Arlene Francis (as "Carolyn Hopewell"), John Glendinning, Henry Jones (as "Stumm"), Burton Lewis, Lee Parry, Jane Seymour, Lee Tracy (as "Frederick M. Hill"), Frances Waller. Produced by Max Gordon.

(1950) Stage Play: King Lear. Tragedy (revival).

(1951) Stage Play: Flahooley. Musical comedy/puppets. Based on material by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy. Music by Sammy Fain. Musical Director: Maurice Levine. Music orchestrated by Ted Royal. Special material for Miss Sumac written by Moises Vivanco. Choreographed by Helen Tamiris. Scenic Design by Howard Bay. Costume Design by David Ffolkes and Lucinda Ballard. Directed by Fred Saidy. Broadhurst Theatre: 14 May 1951- 16 Jun 1951 (40 performances). Cast: Edith Atwater (as "K.T. Pettigrew"), Bil Baird's Marionettes, Barbara Cook, Irwin Corey (as "Abou Ben Atom"), Jerome Courtland, Yma Sumac (as "Najla"), Ernest Truex (as "B.G. Bigelow"), Sara Aman, John Anderson (as "Singer/Clyde, F.D.R. Puppets Singing Voice"), Andy Aprea, Bil Baird, Cora Baird, Lee Ballard, Vicki Barrett, Lulu Bates, Lewis Bolyard, Stanley Carlson, Ray Cook, Fay DeWitt, Carol Donn, Franz Fazakas, Clifford Fearl, Jane Fischer, Carl Harms, Urylee Leonardos, Elizabeth Logue (as "Flahooley"), Normand Maxon, Joe Nash, Louis Nye (as "El-Akbar, The Elder Arab"), Sheldon Ossosky, Nehemiah Persoff (as "Fowzi, The Younger Arab"), Marilyn Ross, Lois Shearer, Laurel Shelby, Franklin T. Syme, James Tarbutton, Richard Temple [final Broadway role], Edgar Thompson, Ted Thurston, Norval Tormsen, Tafi Towers, Antony Tudor (as "Arab") [final Broadway role], Rowan Tudor, Annaliese Widman. Produced by Cheryl Crawford. Produced in association with E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy.

(January 21, 1939) She acted in Rachel Crothers' play, "Susan and God," at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Gertrude Lawrence, Paul McGrath, Frank Fenton, John D. Seymour, Eleanor Audley, Fred Leslie, David Byrne, and Nancy Coleman in the cast. Jo Mielziner was set designer. Hattie Carnegie was costume designer. Rachel Crothers was also director.