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Elmer Rice’s Street Scene, which explores the lives of residents in one New York City brownstone, premiered on Broadway in this year, which also marked the founding of the International Thespian Society.
The original Broadway company of Street Scene.
The original Broadway company of Street Scene. Photo by the White Studio.
1925
1929
1930
1932

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The 1931 political satire Of Thee I Sing holds what distinction?
It was the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize.
It marked the Broadway debut of George S. Kaufman.
The show introduced the popular song “I Got Rhythm.”
All of the above.

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Lynn Riggs’ play Green Grow the Lilacs ran for just 64 performances on Broadway in 1931. It was much more popular as the inspiration for what groundbreaking musical?
June Walker, Helen Westley, and Franchot Tone in Green Grow the Lilacs.
June Walker, Helen Westley, and Franchot Tone in Green Grow the Lilacs. Photo by Vandamm Studio.
Anything Goes
Show Boat
Oklahoma!
On the Town

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Tobacco Road, a 1933 drama by Jack Kirkland, tells the story of poor sharecroppers in rural Georgia. Which of the following statements about the play is true?
It was the longest running play in Broadway history for the time, with more than 3,000 performances.
The New York Times called it “one of the grossest episodes ever put on the stage.”
The show was banned in Chicago and Detroit for being immoral.
All of the above.

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This drama marked the 1934 Broadway debut of playwright Lillian Hellman, who ended the decade five years later with her biggest hit, The Little Foxes.
Photo of Robert Keith, Anne Revere, Florence McGee, Katherine Emery, and Katherine Emmet by Vandamm Studio.
Photo of Robert Keith, Anne Revere, Florence McGee, Katherine Emery, and Katherine Emmet by Vandamm Studio.
The Children's Hour
Watch on the Rhine
Toys in the Attic
The Autumn Garden

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Which of the following Cole Porter songs was not performed by Ethel Merman’s Reno Sweeney in the original 1934 Broadway production of Anything Goes?
“I Get a Kick Out of You”
“All Through the Night”
“You’re the Top”
“Blow, Gabriel, Blow”

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Porgy and Bess, which premiered on Broadway in 1935, is widely considered the masterpiece of which American composer?
The 1935 Theatre Guild production of Porgy and Bess
The 1935 Theatre Guild production of Porgy and Bess. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration Collection.
Cole Porter
Richard Rodgers
George Gershwin
Jerome Kern

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This 1936 comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart has shown up on Dramatics’ survey of the most popular high school plays in every decade since the 1940s.
You Can’t Take It with You
Ah, Wilderness!
Private Lives
Dinner at Eight

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Our Town is the most produced work of this playwright, who himself played the role of the Stage Manager for two weeks in the original 1938 Broadway production.
Frank Craven in the original Broadway production of Our Town.
Frank Craven in the original Broadway production of Our Town. Photo by Alfredo Valente.
Tennessee Williams
George Bernard Shaw
Oscar Wilde
Thornton Wilder

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This 1939 comedy remains the longest running nonmusical in Broadway history.
Life with Father
Harvey
Born Yesterday
Arsenic and Old Lace

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