Life with Father

Life with Father
Written byHoward Lindsay
Russel Crouse
Based on the novel by Clarence Day
Chorusaaaa
Date premieredNovember 8, 1939 (1939-11-08)
Place premieredEmpire Theatre
New York City
GenreComedy
SettingThe morning room of the Day house on Madison Avenue in the late 1880s

Life with Father is a 1939 play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, adapted from a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day. The Broadway production ran for 3,224 performances over 401 weeks to become the longest-running non-musical play on Broadway, a record that it still holds.[1] The play was adapted into a 1947 feature film and a television series.

  1. ^ Schildcrout 2019, p. 62.