Life With Father: the long-lost daddy of Broadway
Life with Father, about a sexist patriarch and submissive wife, holds the record for the longest-running non-musical play in New York. Now, 75 years after it premiered, Mark Lawson asks what it says about American theatre in the 20th centuryAlthough most cultural trends travel across the Atlantic from America, Britain leads the way in one area of theatrical achievement: the shows that never stop. The l…