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
The Road to Memphis (novel) The Road to Memphis (novel) The Road to Memphis is a historical fiction novel written by Mildred D. Taylor. It was first published in 1990 by Penguin. It is the fourth book in the saga following: "Song of the Trees", "Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry" and "Let the Circle Be Unbroken". This would be the final book in the series chronologically to explore the story of the Logan family as a prequel to the series titled, "The Land", was released in 2001. The novel, like its predecessors, is narrated by Cassie Logan, who is now seventeen years old in