Forgotten Broadway: Dramatizing Women's Limited Choices in Selected Plays by Rachel Crothers

This collection brings Rachel Crothers' best plays back into the public eye, outside of archives, to prove their continued relevance to life in the 21st century.

Rachel Crothers was considered in her own time to be “the most famous woman playwright in America” (Charles E. Barnum, Sunday Morning Star). At her peak, 26 of her plays graced Broadway and touring stages, on par with Eugene O'Neill's record, and Hollywood adapted more than half of those for the silver screen, making her one of the...