Following its Broadway season, the original production went on tour, while a separate company opened in the West End theatre district of London.

Lead Supporting Featured Bit Part Voice only Off stage Act I (The Italian room of the Crosby mansion, New York City, evening.)

Though baited by Miss Eastwood, Rosalie holds her own, disclosing how other mediums do their tricks, and promising tonight will be straight.

Rosalie helps rearrange the guests around the chairs in the order they were during the murder, but she tries to place her daughter Helen away from where Wales sat.

Inspector Donahue now reveals Helen O'Neill's fingerprints match those on items in Spencer Lee's room.

(Curtain) Playwright Bayard Veiller reportedly said he wrote The Thirteenth Chair in order to give "a great human interest role" to his wife, Margaret Wycherly.

[1] An article in The New York Times reported that the play "is based on a story of the same title", without specifying author, length, or date.

[2] However, a later profile of Bayard Veiller in The Times says the play was based on stories by Will Irwin, in which the character Rosalie La Grange figures.

[9] The Brooklyn Daily Times reviewer said The Thirteenth Chair was "a rattling good show", and observed the many thrills kept the audience wriggling like "Hawaiian dancers".

[10] The reviewer for The New York Times claimed to have spotted the murderer in Act I, and detailed how the solution came to him[fn 5] without revealing the character's name.

He was not impressed with the play, particularly the reliance upon the supernatural at the end, but praised the acting of everyone except one actor he named "who was too transparent", an indirect fingering of the guilty.

The venue change with just two weeks to go was a courtesy extended by producer William Harris Jr. to George Broadhurst, so the latter's revival of What Happened to Jones could open on the 20th anniversary of its original premiere.

[13] London had its own production company, with Mrs Patrick Campbell in the lead when The Thirteenth Chair debuted in the West End during 1917.