All the Drama: The Old Maid, 1935 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: "The Old Maid"
1935 Pulitzer winner “The Old Maid”, by Zoë Akins

Old Maid Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Maid_(play)

Zoe Akins Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Akins

The Old Maid script
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/s/1595/the-old-maid

Zoe Akins: Broadway Playwright by Alan Kreizenbeck
https://www.amazon.com/Zoe-Akins-Broadway-Playwright-Contributions/dp/0313298157/

Original review by Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/01/08/93664464.html

Broadway At Odds on Pulitzer Prize, The New York Times
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/05/08/95075144.html

Zoe Akins by Carlynn Trout, American Association of University Women
https://columbia-mo.aauw.net/notablewomen/womenac/zoe-akins/

Zoe Akins by Elisa Rolle, QueerPlaces
http://www.elisarolle.com/queerplaces/uvwxyz/Zoe%20Akins.html

Willa Cather to Zoë Akins, November 21 , Willa Cather Archives
https://cather.unl.edu/writings/letters/let1132

The Old Maid Movie
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Maid-Bette-Davis/dp/B07CT52S91/

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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.