Both Your Houses

Both Your Houses
Written byMaxwell Anderson
Date premieredMarch 6, 1933
Place premieredRoyale Theatre
New York City, New York
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama
SettingCannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C.

Both Your Houses is a 1933 play written by American playwright Maxwell Anderson. It was produced by the Theatre Guild and staged by Worthington Miner with scenic design by Arthur P. Segal. It opened at the Royale Theatre on March 5, 1933 and ran for 72 performances closing May 6, 1933. It was awarded the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1932–1933.

The title is an allusion to Mercutio's line "a plague on both your houses" in Romeo and Juliet.[1]

  1. ^ Review: “Both Your Houses” Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, in the Hyde Park Herald, by Anne Spiselman; published November 5, 2014; retrieved December 3, 2014