The New York Times asserted that "The third act of Sing Me No Lullaby constitutes the most forceful statement anyone has made in the theatre for ages.

"[4] Richard Watts wrote that Ardrey was "striving with the most obvious sincerity to probe the unhealthy and hysterical political climate of America in the wake of the cold war.

But the contribution he has made in the last act is a clear and perceptive statement of this nameless, formless situation and an estimation of what it is doing to America.

"[6] Sing Me No Lullaby opened on October 14, 1954, at the Phoenix Theatre in the West End of London.

[7] The production was directed by Paul Stewart and starred Beatrice Straight, Richard Kiley, Jack Warden, Larry Gates, Michael Lipton, Marian Winters, Jessie Royce Landis, John Fiedler, and John Marley.