 When Evans joined the army, Webster continued to have success directing classical plays on Broadway, notably "The Cherry Orchard" (1944) starring Le Gallienne, and her greatest triumph, "Othello" (1943), starring Paul Robeson in the title role and Jose Ferrer as Iago, which ran for 296 performances, by far the longest run of a Shakespearean production on Broadway, a record that has not been remotely approached since.Webster played Emilia in the production's initial year (she was replaced by Edith King in 1944).In 1945, she staged the longest-running performance of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" ever to play Broadway, with Arnold Moss as Prospero, Canada Lee as Caliban, and ballerina Vera Zorina as Ariel.