page_title: Street Scene (play)
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Street Scene (play) / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the original Broadway production of Street Scene
context_page_description: Street Scene is a 1929 American play by Elmer Rice. It opened January 10, 1929, at the Playhouse Theatre in New York City. After a total of 601 performances on Broadway, the production toured the United States and ran for six months in London. The action of the play takes place entirely on the front stoop of a New York City brownstone and in the adjacent street in the early part of the 20th century. It studies the complex daily lives of the people living in the building and the sense of despair that hovers over their interactions. Street Scene received the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
context_section_description: With settings by Jo Mielziner, Street Scene opened January 10, 1929, at the Playhouse Theatre in New York City. Rice's script indicates the play's setting is "the exterior of a 'walk-up' apartment house in a mean quarter of New York. It is of ugly brownstone." Rice was thinking of a building on West 65th Street in Manhattan while writing the play.
  The main characters are Anna Maurrant, dealing with issues of infidelity; Rose Maurrant, her daughter, who struggles with the demands of her job and boss and her attraction to Jewish neighbor Sam Kaplan; Frank Maurrant, the domineering and sometimes abusive husband and father of Anna and Rose, respectively; Sam, a caring and concerned neighbor in love with Rose; and many other neighbors and passersby.
  Leo Bulgakov as Abraham Kaplan
  Eleanor Wesselhoeft as Greta Fiorentino
  Beulah Bondi as Emma Jones
  Hilda Bruce as Olga Olsen
  Russell Griffin as Willie Maurrant
  Mary Servoss as Anna Maurrant
  Conway Washburne as Daniel Buchanan
  Robert Kelly as Frank Maurrant
  T.H. Manning as George Jones
  Joseph Baird as Steve Sankey
  Jane Corcoran as Agnes Cushing
  John Qualen as Carl Olsen
  Anna Konstant as Shirley Kaplan
  George Humbert as Filippo Fiorentino
  Emily Hamill as Alice Simpson
  Frederica Going as Laura Hildebrand
  Eileen Smith as Mary Hildebrand
  Alexander Lewis as Charlie Hildebrand
  Horace Braham as Samuel Kaplan
  Erin O'Brien-Moore as Rose Maurrant
  Glenn Coulter as Harry Easter
  Millicent Green as Mae Jones
  Joseph Lee as Dick McGann
  Matthew McHugh as Vincent Jones
  John Crump as Dr. John Wilson
  Edward Downes as Officer Harry Murphy
  Ralph Willard as a Milkman
  Herbert Lindholm as a Letter-Carrier
  Samuel S. Bonnell as an Iceman and An Interne
  Mary Emerson as a Music Student
  Ellsworth Jones as Marshall James Henry
  Jean Sidney as Fred Cullen
  Joe Cogert as an Old-Clothes Man
  Anthony Pawley as an Ambulance Driver
  Street Scene ran 601 performances on Broadway and toured throughout the United States. During the play's six-month run in London, Aldous Huxley became an ardent fan of Erin O'Brien-Moore, and saw her starring performance as Rose Maurrant at least three times.
caption: Original Broadway production of Street Scene (1929)
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