Potash and Perlmutter (play)

Potash and Perlmutter
Postcard advertising the Broadway production
Written by	Montague Glass and Charles Klein
Date premiered	August 16, 1913 (1913-08-16)
Place premiered	George M. Cohan's Theatre
Original language	English
Genre	Comedy
Setting	New York City

Potash and Perlmutter is a three-act play written by Montague Glass and Charles Klein, based on earlier short stories written by Glass. Producer Albert H. Woods staged it on Broadway, where it opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on August 16, 1913. The play is a comedy featuring the characters Abe Potash and Mawruss Perlmutter, who are business partners in the garment industry.^[1]

The play was a hit and ran for 441 performances on Broadway. A production in London's West End opened on April 14, 1914, at the Queen's Theatre starring Augustus Yorke and Robert Leonard. By the fall of 1914, Woods had eight road companies presenting the show on tour.^[2]

The play was adapted as a 1923 movie, also called Potash and Perlmutter. Woods produced several theatrical sequels, including Abe and Mawruss (1915), Business Before Pleasure (1917), His Honor: Abe Potash (1919), Partners Again (1922), and Potash and Perlmutter, Detectives (1926), all written by Glass with various co-authors.