Odets

Back in the 1930s, Clifford Odets captured the frictions between European Jews like his Russian and Romanian parents and their restive children, and the guilt, shame, and self-hatred such conflict can stoke.

In a recent, enthusiastic review of Lincoln Center's outstanding revival of Clifford Odets's 1937 play "Golden Boy," New York magazine's current man on the aisle wrote: "There are, walking around today, whole generations of theatergoers with no firsthand experience of Clifford Odets's plays--not in-performance, anyway.

The play was Waiting for Lefty, by Clifford Odets, and the show was so successful it gave the group the confidence to go from strength to strength ...

Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing" opened on Broadway in 1935.

Letter exchanges in the early 1940s with David Chudnow, Paul Kohner, and the famous playwright Clifford Odets, among other influential figures in the Hollywood film industry, show how involved Eisler was with the film scene, even though he often loathed it.

A STELLAR cast including Jenny Seagrove and Birmingham's Martin Shaw tackle this Clifford Odets play which takes us into the heart of a fractured marriage.

The Country Girl Malvern Festival Theatre Decades pass between opportunities to see plays by American dramatist Clifford Odets on the West Midlands stage.

Out of this artistic outpouring came works that were to have a lasting popularity, such as Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets.

(3) (Incidentally, one can argue that Garfield's screen persona evolved and became defined through collaborations with various screen and theatre artists; most notably, Polonsky, Clifford Odets and Robert Rossen.)

In one of this issue's several essays linking Wolfe to other writers, Shawn Holliday counters negative assessments of playwright Clifford Odets and his motives for attending Wolfe's 1938 funeral.

His last big hit was 2008's The Bucket List, opposite Jack Nicholson, followed by a return to the stage last year, in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl.

For the same purpose, I would also recommend other dramatic works, such as Clifford Odets's Waiting for Lefty or Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, both of which I have used in Business English classes.

That era's other iconic work was Clifford Odets' 1935 one-act play, Waiting for Lefty, a lusty, brawling, theatrical agitation on behalf of the unions.