Tobacco Road (play) Tobacco Road (play) Tobacco Road is a play by Jack Kirkland first performed in 1933, based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Erskine Caldwell. The play ran on Broadway for a total of 3,182 performances, becoming the longest-running play in history at the time. As of 2018, it was still the 19th longest-running Broadway show in history, as well as being the second-longest running non-musical ever on Broadway. "Tobacco Road" opened on Broadway at the Theatre Masque (now the John Golden Theatre) on December 4, 1933, transferred to the 48th Street Theatre (demolished in 1955), where it
Tobacco Road (bar) could remain open for at least that long before the lot is developed. In 2014, the owners announced that they were planning on selling the bar to its employees, regardless of whether or not demolition is imminent, and relocating to another building nearby. The bar closed on the morning of October 26 with plans to relocate to another building in the same block as well as a themed bar on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship. In October 2015, the Norwegian Escape began service from PortMiami, with the ship including a bar named "Tobacco Road", which has been "reimagined as a