Not for Children is a 1934 play by Elmer Rice

Elmer Rice

Elmer Rice was an American playwright. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1929 play, Street Scene.-Early years:...

. It was premiered in 1935 at the Fortune Theatre

Fortune Theatre

The Fortune Theatre is a 432 seat West End theatre in Russell Street, near Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, built in 1922-4 by Ernest Schaufelberg for impresario Laurence Cowen. The façade is principally bush hammered concrete, with brick piers supporting the roof...

 in the West End

West End theatre

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 of London

London

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. The work was performed for the first time on Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 on February 13, 1951 at the Coronet Theatre

Coronet Theatre

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; closing four days later after only seven performances. Incidental music

Incidental music

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 was composer by Robert Emmett Dolan. The production starred Elliott Nugent

Elliott Nugent

Elliott Nugent was an American actor, writer, and film director. He successfully made the transition from silent film to sound. He directed The Cat and the Canary , starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard...

 as Ambrose Atwater, Betty Field

Betty Field

Betty Field was an American film and stage actress. Through her father, she was a direct descendant of the Pilgrims John Alden and Priscilla Mullins....

 as Theodora Effington, J. Edward Bromberg

J. Edward Bromberg

Joseph Edward Bromberg was a Hungarian-born American character actor in motion picture and stage productions dating mostly from the 1930s and 1940s....

 as Timothy Forrest, Ann Thomas as Prudence Dearborn, Keene Crockett as Elijah Silverhammer, Alexander Clark

Alexander Clark

Alexander Clark was an African-American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Liberia. He was born in 1826 in Pennsylvania to parents who had been freed from slavery...

 as Clarence Orth, and Joan Copeland

Joan Copeland

Joan Copeland is an American actress and the younger sister of celebrated playwright Arthur Miller. She began her career appearing in theatre in New York City during the mid 1940s. She moved into television and film during the 1950s while still maintaining an active stage career...

as Evangeline Orth.