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Awake and Sing! Information
322 words, approx. 1 pages
 Awake and Sing! is a 1935 play by Clifford Odets which was originally produced at the Belasco Theatre. It was revived in 1938, 1984, 2006, and 2007. A television adaptation was made in 1972 starring Walter Matthau. The original production starred Luther...




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 The New York Observer
Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing!- Where Dream and Disillusion Meet
4/23/2006: 1,224 words, approx. 4 pages 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 family struggling in the Bronx to survive the Depression lives up to its myth as...
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 The New York Observer
Clifford Odets\'d5 Awake and Sing!\'d1 Where Dream and Disillusion Meet
4/23/2006: 1,224 words, approx. 4 pages 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 family struggling in the Bronx to survive the Depression lives up to its myth as a...
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Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna hit `Chicago'
7/12/2007: 1,213 words, approx. 4 pages 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 big toe while maneuvering about his tiny dressing room."There was no toe there when...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Richard J. Dozier
6,431 words, approx. 21 pages
 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 similarities between the two plays to analyze several distinct differences between them.
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Critical Essay by Robert Warshow
3,948 words, approx. 13 pages
 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 experience of its time.
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Critical Essay by C. W. E. Bigsby
2,793 words, approx. 9 pages
 In the excerpt below, Bigsby surveys Odets' work with the Group Theatre, paying particular attention to Awake and Sing!


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