This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief While Broadhurst is most famous today for the Shubert theater named after him on 44th Street, in his own time he was an expert at light comedy and the author of 48 Broadway plays between 1896 and 1924. While The Man of the Hour is in no way an historical play, it does expose the excesses of New York's Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party's political machine, and parallels t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:13AM on March 11, 2015