Awake and Sing! at NVA
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Fri, Mar 17, 2017 - Sun, Apr 16, 2017 Thurs / Fri / Sat 8pm | Matinee Sat 3 / Sun 2pm
Location
Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center
2787 State St
Details
Stirring, Tony Award-Winning Immigrant Tale!
Written by Clifford Odets | Directed by Kristianne Kurner
Runs: March 25 - April 16, 2017
Previews: March 17 - 24, 2017
Opening Night: March 25, 2017
Show Times: Thurs / Fri / Sat 8pm | Matinee Sat 3 / Sun 2pm
Generally considered Clifford Odets' finest play, AWAKE AND SING! was originally performed by the notable Group Theater on Broadway in 1935. By turns starkly dramatic and vividly comic, it is the story of the Bergers, a lower-middle-class, three-generation Jewish family living in a Bronx apartment during the Depression. Odets, who described his play as "a struggle for life amid petty conditions," captures the frenetic, pressured existence in this crowded dwelling with robust authenticity.
