The original play was produced twice on Broadway over a 50-year period of time. The second production earned multiple awards, including Best Revival of a play, and best featured actress for Jane Adams. The revival production also earned awards for creative set design, which featured all adult actors moving around on an oversized doll house sized set, and the actors were unable to actually enter or move around within the rooms of the house.
Reunited Harry Potter cast mates actor David Thewlis and actress Miranda Richardson. They played Remus Lupin and Rita Skeeter, respectively.
First aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 13th September 2015.
The Birling & Co factory is based on the famous Salts Mill in Yorkshire, built in the 1850's, at the time it was renowned as both the largest industrial building in the world and also for being groundbreaking in trying to create better worker conditions - so somewhat at odds with the fictionalised usage set half a century later. These days the mill is famous amongst other things for being a gallery for local artist, David Hockney.