All The Drama: “Alison’s House” by Susan Glaspell, 1931 Pulitzer Prize Winner

All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Alison’s House"
1931 Pulitzer winner “Alison’s House”, by Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Glaspell

About Susan Glaspell - The International Susan Glaspell Society (shu.edu)
https://blogs.shu.edu/glaspellsociety/about-susan-glaspell/

Alison’s House Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison%27s_House

Alison’s House script
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/60306/alisons-house

“Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48” by J. Ellen Gainor
https://www.amazon.com/Susan-Glaspell-Context-American-Politics-ebook/dp/B08TRFXFFL/

“Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times” by Linda Ben-Zvi
https://www.amazon.com/Susan-Glaspell-Her-Life-Times-ebook/dp/B001CPKB4M/

Metropolitan Playhouse Review by Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/theater/review-in-alisons-house-a-family-struggles-to-protect-a-literary-legacy.html

New York Times Obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/1948/07/28/archives/susan-6l15prll-6611-noted-playwrighti-winner-of-pulitzer-prize-in.html

“Who Is Susan Glaspell?” The New York Times, May 25, 1918
https://www.nytimes.com/1918/05/26/archives/who-is-susan-glaspell.html

Time Magazine Review of original production
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,752665,00.html

"Winner" by James Thurber, The New Yorker, May 29, 1931
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1931/06/06/winner

“PULITZER LAURELS; "Alison's House" as the Most Unsatisfactory Dramatic Award Made During the Past Few Years” by J. Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1931/05/10/archives/pulitzer-laurels-alisons-house-as-the-most-unsatisfactory-dramatic.html

“A Small-Scale Masterpiece In Susan Glaspell's Novel; In "Brook Evans," She Writes a Compassionate Story Of the Human Values of Idealism” by John R. Chamberlain, The New York Times, July 1, 1928
https://www.nytimes.com/1928/07/01/archives/a-smallscale-masterpiece-in-susan-glaspells-novel-in-brook-evans.html

Review of London’s Orange Tree Theatre production by John Thaxter, Oct. 12, 2009
https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/alisons-house-review-at-orange-tree-london

Review of “Springs Eternal” by London’s Orange Tree Theatre by Nick Smurthwaite Sept. 16, 2013
https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/springs-eternal-review-at-orange-tree-theatre-richmond-upon-thames

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Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.