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
Lonely Road (novel) Lonely Road (novel) Lonely Road is a novel by British author Nevil Shute. It was first published in 1932 by William Heinemann and in the US by William Morrow. In 1936 it was adapted as a film, "The Lonely Road", released in the US the same year as "Scotland Yard Commands", starring Clive Brook and Victoria Hopper. The novel also served as the basis for an episode (no 14) in the BBC series "The Jazz Age" in 1968. The book begins with a note from the solicitor for Commander Malcolm Stevenson, who, we learn, has died recently (in about 1930),