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===Theater===
[[File:Kaufman-Hart-1937.jpg|thumb|left|George S. Kaufman and [[Moss Hart]] in 1937]]
Kaufman's [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] debut was September 4, 1918, at the [[Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)|Knickerbocker Theatre]], with the premiere of the melodrama ''Someone in the House''.<ref>{{cite news |title= The September Line-up | url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F5071FFE3F5D147A93C7AB1783D85F4C8185F9 | date=August 25, 1918 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | access-date=November 13, 2010}} (abstract) {{subscription required}}</ref><ref name=ibdb/> He coauthored the play with Walter C. Percival, based on a magazine story written by Larry Evans.<ref>{{cite journal | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=_J_NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA370 | title= The Stage | pages=356–371 | issue= 2 | volume= LXV | journal= [[Munsey's Magazine]] |date=November 1918 | first = Matthew Jr. | last= White | access-date=October 20, 2011 | location=New York | publisher= F.A. Munsey & Co.}}</ref> The play opened on Broadway (running for only 32 performances) during [[1918 flu pandemic|that year's serious flu epidemic]], when people were being advised to avoid crowds. With "dour glee", Kaufman suggested that the best way to avoid crowds in New York City was to attend his play.<ref name="time61obit">{{cite news |url= http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,938133,00.html |archive-url= https://archive.today/20130204134038/http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,938133,00.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= February 4, 2013 | title= Broadway: One Man's Mede | date= June 9, 1961 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | access-date=November 13, 2010}}</ref>
Every Broadway season from 1921 through 1958 had a play written or directed by Kaufman. Since Kaufman's death in 1961,<ref name="time61obit"/> revivals of his work on Broadway were produced in the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 2000s, and the 2010s.<ref name=ibdb>[http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=5827 "George S. Kaufman"]. Internet Broadway Database (ibdb.com). Retrieved November 13, 2010.</ref> Kaufman wrote only one play alone, ''[[The Butter and Egg Man]]'' in 1925.<ref>Londré, Felicia Hardison (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Jldiza39QrcC&pg=PA47 ''Words at Play:Creative Writing and Dramaturgy'']. SIU Press, {{ISBN|0-8093-2679-5}}, p. 47.</ref> With [[Marc Connelly]], he wrote ''[[Merton of the Movies (play)|Merton of the Movies]]'', ''Dulcy'', and ''[[Beggar on Horseback]]''; with [[Ring Lardner]], he wrote ''[[June Moon]]''; with [[Edna Ferber]], he wrote ''[[The Royal Family (play)|The Royal Family]]'', ''[[Dinner at Eight (play)|Dinner at Eight]]'', and ''[[Stage Door (play)|Stage Door]]''; with [[John P. Marquand]], he wrote a stage adaptation of Marquand's novel ''[[The Late George Apley]]''; and with [[Howard Teichmann]], he wrote ''[[The Solid Gold Cadillac]]''. According to his biography on PBS, "he wrote some of the American theater's most enduring comedies" with [[Moss Hart]].<ref>Larkin, Colin, ed. (2004). [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/kaufman_g.html "Stars Over Broadway: Biography, Excerpted from the Encyclopedia of Popular Music"]. pbs.org. Retrieved November 13, 2010.</ref> Their work includes ''[[Once in a Lifetime (play)|Once in a Lifetime]]'' (in which he also performed), ''[[Merrily We Roll Along (play)|Merrily We Roll Along]]'', ''[[The Man Who Came to Dinner]]'', and ''[[You Can't Take It with You (play)|You Can't Take It with You]]'', which won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1937.<ref name=pulitzer>[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Drama "The Pulitzer Prizes, Drama"]. pulitzer.org. Retrieved March 6, 2011.</ref>
For a period, Kaufman lived at 158 West 58th Street in New York City. The building later was the setting for ''Stage Door''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Teichmann | first=Howard | title=George S. Kaufman; An Intimate Portrait | url=https://archive.org/details/georgeskaufmanin00teicrich | url-access=registration | location=New York | publisher=Atheneum | year=1972 | oclc=400765}}</ref> It is now the Park Savoy Hotel, and for many years was considered a [[single room occupancy]] hotel.<ref>{{cite news |author=Okane, Laurence | title=Adjunct Garages Irk City Planners; Loophole in Zoning Permits All Comers to Use Space | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/01/24/archives/adjunct-garages-irk-city-planners-loophole-in-zoning-permits-all.html | work=The New York Times | date= January 24, 1965| access-date=October 13, 2008}} (abstract) {{subscription required}}</ref>
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