The Theatre Guild production opened on 20 December 1926 at the John Golden Theatre and ran for 130 performances. Sidney Howard's gripping portrait of a possessive, domineering mother (played by Laura Hope Crews) owed much to Freudian psychology. When her two adult sons bring home a wife and a fiancée to meet her, she begins maneuvering to drive the women away and keep her sons under her wing. But the wife proves a worthy opponent and manages to keep the elder son as her husband, while the younger son caves in to life with mother.
The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater. James Fisher.