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
Connecticut shade tobacco Cigar Aficionado article on why the world's best cigars use Connecticut tobacco wrapper leaves. In 2017, one of the largest producers of shade grown tobacco, O.J. Thrall, placed over 300 acres of prime tobacco growing land up for sale, which is almost half of the remaining amount of acreage in production for shade grown tobacco. Pockets of the crop remain in production in Connecticut Towns such as Windsor, East Windsor, Suffield and Enfield. The 1958 novel and 1961 motion picture titled "Parrish" featured the shade tobacco industry in and around Hartford in the '40s and '50s. Connecticut shade tobacco Connecticut