The series consisted of a single actor or actress performing in front of a black curtain, or bare stage, with recorded music cues, in an example of
monodrama. Some sources suggest this series, produced by Lawrence Menkin (1911-2000), also aired episodes of ''
One Man's Experience and One Woman's Experience'', both also produced by Menkin. Filming took place at a tiny studio at 515 Madison Avenue. In 1953, in a series of episodes of
Monodrama Theater, actor
Jack Manning performed a one-man show of
Hamlet. His performance took place over the course of two weeks in 15-minute-long segments.
Jack Gould, a
television critic for the
New York Times, praised Manning's performance as Hamlet, calling him "inventive, versatile and, above all, natural." Gould also noted of Manning at the time that, "He knows his
Shakespeare and truly catches the meaning of the lines." In April 1954, DuMont filled the 11pm ET time slot with
The Ernie Kovacs Show, which ran until April 7, 1955. ==Preservation status==