page_title: Arthur Wing Pinero
section_title: Broadway productions
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur Wing Pinero / Works / Broadway productions
caption_attribution_description: Monday, 16th August, six nights only. Messrs Clayton &amp; Cecil&#39;s Company in &#39;The Schoolmistress&#39; by A. W.Pinero. Printed by J. M. Kronheim &amp; Co., London. Proprietors &amp; Managers: Messrs Howard &amp; Wyndham, Acting Manager &amp; Secretary: Mr Sam H. S. Austin.
context_page_description: Sir Arthur Wing Pinero was an English playwright and, early in his career, actor.
  Pinero was drawn to the theatre from an early age, and became a professional actor at the age of 19. He gained experience as a supporting actor in British provincial theatres, and from 1876 to 1881 was a member of Henry Irving's company, based at the Lyceum Theatre, London.
  Pinero wrote his first play in 1877. Seven years later, having written 15 more, three of them highly successful, he abandoned acting and became a full-time playwright. He first became known for a series of farces, of which The Magistrate was the longest-running. During the 1890s he turned to serious subjects. The Second Mrs Tanqueray, dealing with a woman with a scandalous past, was regarded as shocking, but ran well and made a large profit. His other successes included Trelawny of the "Wells", a romantic comedy celebrating the theatre, old and new, and The Gay Lord Quex, about a reformed roué and a feisty young woman. A venture into opera, with a libretto for The Beauty Stone, was not a success, and Pinero thereafter generally stuck to his familiar genre of society dramas and comedies.
context_section_description: The original London productions that were followed by New York productions were: The Money Spinner (New York, 1882); The Squire (1882); Girls and Boys (1883); Lords and Commons (1884); In Chancery (1885); The Magistrate (1885); The Schoolmistress (1886); Dandy Dick (1887); Sweet Lavender (1888); Lady Bountiful (1891); The Cabinet Minister (1892); The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893); The Amazons (1894); The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith (1895); The Benefit of the Doubt (1896); The Princess and the Butterfly (1897); Trelawny of the Wells (1898); The Gay Lord Quex (1900); Iris (1902); Letty (1904); A Wife without a Smile (1904); His House in Order (1906); Mid-Channel (1910); Preserving Mr. Panmure (1912); The "Mind-the-Paint" Girl (1912); and The Enchanted Cottage (1923).
caption: Poster for provincial production of The Schoolmistress
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