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Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays

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Book jacket/back: Clifford Odets is considered the most gifted American social protest dramatist of the thirties and certainly one of America's great playwrights. Odets was born in Philadelphia in 1906 and raised in the Bronx, New York. After joining the Group Theatre in 1931, he wrote his six best and most famous plays, included in this volume.
Waiting for Lefty.

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The Country Girl

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One of America's great dramatists rocked the worlds of Broadway and Hollywood in this moving drama about a desperately self-destructive alcoholic actor and Georgie, his long-suffering wife. A searing, emotional play of love and redemption.

A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Spencer Garrett, Harry Hamlin, Jamie Hanes, Stacy Keach, Rick Podell, Mandy Siegfried and Mare Winningham.

SIX PLAYS Of CLIFFORD ODETS. With a Preface by the Author.

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The Time Is Ripe: The 1940 Journal of Clifford Odets : With an Introduction by William Gibson

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Three Plays By Clifford Odets: Awake And Sing, Waiting For Lefty, Till The Day I Die

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Odets Was A High School Dropout Who Worked For Twelve Years As An Actor Before Having All Three Of These Plays Produced In The Same Year.

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Motherhood Becomes Her, Quite Often - New York Times
New York Times, United States - May 23, 2009
Motherhood Becomes Her, Quite OftenIt was one of three well-known 1950s dramas —along with William Inge's “Come Back, Little Sheba” and Clifford Odets's “Country Girl” — that arrived on Broadway in 2008 with black or racially polyglot casts. “August,” however, is a contemporary drama.

Northlight Theatre Plays Awake & Sing - HULIQ
HULIQ, NC - May 23, 2009
Northlight Theatre Plays Awake & SingBy Clifford Odets Tony Award-winner for Best Revival of a Play in 2006! In a cramped Bronx tenement during the Great Depression, a working-class Jewish family copes with financial hardship even as they dream of a brighter future.

An American Classic Shines in Texas
Wall Street Journal - May 22, 2009
By TERRY TEACHOUT Why is Clifford Odets's “Awake and Sing!” performed so rarely? It's one of the greatest of all American plays, a wrenching kitchen-sink drama of Depression-era family life, and by all rights it ought to be as popular as “Our Town” or

Broadway star Pablo Schreiber makes his name - San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - May 21, 2009
Broadway star Pablo Schreiber makes his nameBut despite glowing reviews and a Tony nomination for his turn as a young idealist in the 2006 revival of Clifford Odets'"Awake and Sing," the lanky 31-year-old has trouble accepting praise. When recently reminded about a reviewer who compared his

Main Street Theater concludes its 2008-2009 season with Clifford ... - Theatreport.com
Theatreport.com, TX - May 01, 2009
Main Street Theater concludes its 2008-2009 season with Clifford Clifford Odets' passionate, tumultuous, and ultimately hopeful Awake and Sing! tells the story of.. .. Bessie Berger and her boisterous family as they struggle with poverty and the hardships of the Great Depression. Full of life and fervor,