Can "Awake and Sing!" Still Sing? Fichandler and Sher are out to prove that Odets's family saga isn't obsolete.(CURRENTS)(Clifford Odets)(Bartlett Sher)(Zelda Fichandler)
American Theatre, March, 2006 by Berson, Misha
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Nineteen-thirty-five: It was the year a skinny, fuzzy-haired Jewish-American writer still in his twenties emerged from the fringes of the Group Theatre to become one of America's most celebrated dramatists. The writer was Clifford Odets, and the play that vaulted him to national attention was his debut work, Waiting for Lefty, an explosive valentine to New York City cabbies on the verge of a labor strike.
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Group, an ensemble with the radical mission of storming Broadway with plays and acting of searing immediacy, capitalized on the tumultuous ...
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