Cafe Crown (1942, play) - repro

H.S. Kraft’s warm, deeply affectionate 1942 Broadway comedy masterpiece 'Café Crown' opened to critical adulation at the Cort Theatre. Conceived as a rich, ensemble-driven portrait of New York City's cultural heritage, the drawing-room plot unfolds entirely inside a bustling, legendary café along Second Avenue, serving as a thinly veiled love letter to the real-life Café Royal and the eccentric parade of Yiddish theater actors, idealistic playwrights, and boisterous directors who gathered there to plot theatrical productions. Directed by Elia Kazan in an early peak, the historic original cast was led by Sam Levene and Morris Carnovsky.