Shows · The Green Pastures
The Green Pastures
Opened 1951
44 performances
Musical, Golden Age
The Green Pastures is a play written in 1929 by Marc Connelly adapted from Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford. The play was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930.
- Music
- Based on traditional spirituals and gospel songs
Productions3 on Broadway
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Dramatists Play Service | available |
the play was of “surpassing beauty” and included “magnificent strokes of imaginative comedy” that made it a “rare piece of work.
J. Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 43Robert Benchley in the New Yorker told his readers that “never” in the theatre had they “seen anything like The Green Pastures” and they were “not likely to see anything like it again.” He warned them that if they didn’t “see it now,” they didn’t “deserve to.”
The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 43Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.