| Tobacco Road | |
|---|---|
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:TobaccoRoad.jpg) First UK edition (1949) | |
| Written by | Jack Kirkland |
| Date premiered | December 1933 |
| Place premiered | Theatre Masque New York City |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell |
| Genre | Drama |
| Setting | A farm in Georgia during the Great Depression |
Tobacco Road is a play by Jack Kirkland first performed in 1933, based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Erskine Caldwell. The play ran on Broadway for a total of 3,182 performances, surpassing Abie's Irish Rose to become the longest-running play in history at the time.[1][2] As of December 2024, it was still the 21st longest-running Broadway show in history, as well as being the second-longest running non-musical ever on Broadway.[3]
- ^ "Long Runs in Theatre" Archived 2010-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, Clair Sedore (2008)
- ^ Schildcrout, Jordan (2019). In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays. New York and London: Routledge. p. 38. ISBN 978-0367210908.
- ^ "Longest-Running Shows on Broadway", playbill.com, March 9, 2020 (accessed September 5, 2020)