In the excerpt below, Bigsby surveys Odets' work with the Group Theatre, paying particular attention to Awake and Sing!
Odets's Berger family [of Awake and Sing!] is trapped, in a men...
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In the following, Young offers a mixed review of Awake and Sing!, judging it a "workaday drama."
There are a number of pertinent things to be said of the Group Theatre's last p...
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Vernon provides a glowing assessment of Awake and Sing!, declaring it "one of the truest, most vital productions of the year. "
The Group Theatre got off none too happily in its first...
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In the excerpt below from a conference paper presented in 1964, Goldstone asserts that Awake and Sing! is Odets' most profound play and explores the significance of money to the characters.
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Warshow was a Jewish-American editor, essayist, and film critic. In the following essay, he discusses Odets's Awake and Sing! and its realistic portrayal of the common Jewish-American experienc...
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Gill is an American novelist, short story writer, and critic. In the following review, he pans a modern production of Odets's Awake and Sing! and wonders if the work has been lost to history.
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In the following essay, Dozier examines Paradise Lost, a play originally criticized for being an inferior version of Awake and Sing!, Odets's first work. Dozier looks beyond superficial similar...
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Lincoln Center’s rediscovery of Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! is a great opportunity to see the 1935 play that transformed American theater. But whether the drama about a Jewish fami...
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Lincoln Center’s rediscovery of Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! is a great opportunity to see the 1935 play that transformed American theater. But whether the drama about a Jewish famil...
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Two hours before they hit the stage in "Chicago," Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna are literally stepping on each others' toes."Ouch!" Rinna screams after her husband accidentally stomps her bare right ...
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Critical Essay by C. W. E. Bigsby
Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing!- Where Dream and Disillusion Meet
