Broadway Drama

The Stage.

Dramas of the "legitimate stage" (performed by live actors before successive audiences) flourished. Nineteen different work by Eugene O'Neill, the supreme American dramatist, were premiered—not all in New York City—in the 1920s (among them: Anna Christie, 1921; Desire Under the Elms, 1924; and Strange Interlude, 1928). George S. Kaufman was author or co-author of eighteen productions and Marc Connelly of eleven—nine of them jointly (for example, Beggar on Horseback, 1924) during the decade. There were nine premiered works by Philip Barry (Holiday in 1928); sixteen by Sidney Howard (They Knew What They Wanted in 1924); and three by Robert E. Sherwood (The Road to Rome in 1927). The first, best, and most successful product of the long collaboration between Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht was The Front Page in 1928. Three plays jointly by Maxwell Anderson and...

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