Street Scene | Critical Overview
When Street Scene was first produced, most critics praised the play for its realism and its characterizations. R. Dana Skinner of Commonweal called it ‘‘a play of extraordinary sweep, power and intensity, which catches up with amazing simplicity and sincere feeling the ragged, glowing, humor and tragic life that pours in and out of one of those brownstone apartment houses hovering on the upper edge of the slum district of New York.’’ New York Times critic J. Brooks Atkinson was also nearly unqualified in his praise. He wrote, ‘‘He has transferred intact...
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