Paul Green
Toronto Daily Star, May 17 1927
Paul Green (1894-1981) won the Pulitzer Prize for In Abraham's Bosom, which ran for 200 performances on Broadway between December 1926 and June 1927.
In the 1930s, he created historical dramas best suited for outdoor performance, which he called "symphonic dramas". One of these, The Lost Colony, written in 1937, is about a colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh on Roanoke Island in 1587. When the colony site was next visited in 1590, it had vanished.
The Lost Colony has been performed every year in North Carolina between mid-May and mid-August since 1937 (except for 1944, due to the war, and 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Over four million people have seen it.
Created September 20, 2025.