Connelly, Marc(us) - Connelly, Marc(us) 1890–
Connelly, Marc(us) 1890–
Connelly, known primarily for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Green Pastures and for his successful collaborations with George S. Kaufman during the 1920s, has long been a distinguished and vital force in the Broadway theatre—as writer, producer, actor, teacher, and advocate. He is also the author of prize-winning short stories and a novel. Connelly was a member of the Algonquin Round Table and a founder of The New Yorker.
Probably no play did more to dramatize the most relevant of man's spiritual struggles of the past than Marc Connelly's Green Pastures. Produced just after the crash in 1929, when speculators and others were jumping out the windows of skyscrapers and men and women everywhere felt confused and frustrated, this play brought healing and faith to troubled souls. Moreover it performed its ministry with such grace of humor and imagination that it sent audiences back into the darkness...
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