Off Broadway Revivals for the Playwright John van Druten

NYTimes.com: In 1953, a writer leveled harsh criticism at John van Druten’s romantic comedy “London Wall,” calling its story “almost shamelessly inadequate” and arguing that the play would never work for American audiences. His name: John van Druten.
In his candid book “Playwright at Work,” van Druten maintained that the strength of that 1931 law-office comedy was its atmosphere. But those details of working life in England were culturally specific: “To a New York audience, they would mean nothing,” he concluded, ”and the weakness of the story would be twice as apparent.”