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All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

1946 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, State of the Union” by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay

State of the Union Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Union_(play)

Howard Lindsay Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Lindsay

Russel Crouse Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Russel_Crouse

State of the Union script
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/14245/state-of-the-union

New Yorker review of original production by Wolcott Gibbs
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1945/11/24/1945-11-24-048-tny-cards-000018149

New York Times review of original production by Lewis Nichols
https://nyti.ms/4nIKng3

Lindsay obit
https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/12/archives/howard-lindsay-playwright-star-of-life-with-father-dies-howard.html

Crouse obit
https://www.nytimes.com/1966/04/04/archives/russel-crouse-73-playwright-is-dead-russel-crouse-is-dead-at-73.html

Masterworks Broadway: Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/howard-lindsay-and-russel-crouse/

“Life With Lindsay and Crouse” by Cornelia Otis Skinner
https://amzn.to/498X5i6

“Spencer Tracy: A Biography” by James Curtis
https://amzn.to/49extQL

State of the Union movie
https://amzn.to/4v4p8HW

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