All The Drama: "They Knew What They Wanted" by Sidney Howard, 1925 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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: "They Knew What They Wanted" by Sidney Howard

Howard Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Howard#cite_note-1

They Knew What They Wanted Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Knew_What_They_Wanted_(play)

Original New York Times review of The Knew What They Wanted:
https://www.nytimes.com/1924/11/25/archives/the-play.html?searchResultPosition=1

They Knew What They Wanted script:
https://smile.amazon.com/They-Knew-What-Wanted-Comedy/dp/1258815540/

Pulitzer Prize announcement, New York Times
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/04/27/98824798.html?pageNumber=19

Berkeley Planet tribute after Howard’s death
https://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2007-12-18/article/28760?headline=Sidney-Howard-From-Berkeley-to-Broadway-and-Hollywood

Review of 1976 revival: Sidney Howard Play Is Staged by Phoenix
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/01/28/archives/sidney-howard-play-is-staged-by-phoenix.html?searchResultPosition=1

“Sidney Howard and Clare Eames: American Theater's Perfect Couple of the 1920s” by Arthur Gewirtz
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sidney_Howard_and_Clare_Eames/_5a8BqejzCcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Gewirtz,+Arthur&pg=PP6&printsec=frontcover

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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.