Stage Door

Stage Door is a play by American playwrights George S. Kaufman (1889-1961) and Edna Ferber (b. 1887). The play concerns a group of young girls who have come to New York to study acting and find jobs. The scene is Mrs. Orcutt's boarding house, where the hopes and ambitions of sixteen young women are revealed in scenes of entertaining comedy.

The original text

Published by Dramatist's Play Service, 1943.

Performance history in South Africa

1943: Presented by the Johannesburg Repertory Society, produced by Margaret Inglis, with Joyce Marcuson at the Standard Theatre.

Sources

Trek , 8(5):16, 1943.

Theatre programme held by NELM: NELM Location: [Collection: THEATRE PROGRAMMES]: 2012. 242. 1. 131.

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