Theater Review: Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets on Broadway - Page 5

And listening to them fight over why we go to war, how we compensate workers for their labor, and what we call “success” in America, it’s clearly our own world today as well. Too bad it takes a 70-year-old play to bring back on stage those realities so often ignored in our insular theatre of today.

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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 ...

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  • 1 - Eric Olsen

    Apr 26, 2006 at 6:58 pm

    heady stuff Playgoer - very thorough and well-written - thanks!

  • 2 - Chris Evans

    Apr 27, 2006 at 12:53 am

    I just saw this and it was AMAZING. All of the actors were so incredible, and it doesn't hurt that I got to touch Mark Ruffalo and get a picture with him afterwards.

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