Although you frequently hear that certain plays fare poorly with critics and at the box
office because they are ahead of their time, that is probably never quite the case. They may, though, float apart from their time, slightly out of sync with prevailing sensibilities. This could be true of Paul Osborn's Morning's at Seven, which collapsed when first unveiled in 1938 but is currently having its second successful Broadway revival. It's also how Arthur Miller explains the initial failure of The Man Who Had All the Luck, which has come to Broadway for the first time in 58 years.

In 1944, All the Luck played for all of four performances and temporarily sent Miller scurrying away from thea[...]