Street Scene (play)

Street Scene
First edition (1929)
Written by	Elmer Rice
Characters	Anna Maurrant Rose Maurrant Samuel Kaplan Frank Maurrant
Date premiered	January 10, 1929
Place premiered	Playhouse Theatre New York City
Original language	English
Setting	The exterior of a walk-up apartment house in New York City

Street Scene is a 1929 American play by Elmer Rice. It opened January 10, 1929, at the Playhouse Theatre in New York City. After a total of 601 performances on Broadway, the production toured the United States and ran for six months in London. The action of the play takes place entirely on the front stoop of a New York City brownstone and in the adjacent street in the early part of the 20th century. It studies the complex daily lives of the people living in the building (and surrounding neighborhood) and the sense of despair that hovers over their interactions. Street Scene received the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.