(No. 25 in the series) By: Samuel L. Leiter March 28, 2021: After struggling to regain his form as Broadway's foremost writer of drawing-room comedy, Philip Barry"who hadn't had a hit since 1932"accomplished that aim with éclat in The Philadelphia Story, which opened as a Theatre Guild production at the Shubert Theatre on March 28, 1939, where it racked up 417 performances. Brooks Atkinson dubbed it a "gay and s…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00AM on March 28, 2021