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Six Plays of Clifford Odets

Book by Clifford Odets; Modern Library, 1939

Subjects:

Drama

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...429 PREFACE by Clifford Odets At the ripe age of thirty-three...poorly received as a practical theatre work, remains my favorite play...is not to forget the Group Theatre actors and actresses, all dear...COPYRIGHT, 1935, BY CLIFFORD ODETS CAUTION: Professionals and...
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The Story of Unity Theatre

Book by Colin Chambers; Lawrence & Wishart, 1989

Subjects:

Unity Theatre (Group)

Collections: Entire Library

...Lefty by Clifford Odets (John Vickers Theatre Collection) Wheres...America by Clifford Odets which had been published in New Theatre, the magazine of...Britain by Manchesters Theatre of Action but without...Players contacted both Odets and his agents...
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Black Drama of the Federal Theatre Era: Beyond the Formal Horizons

Book by E. Quita Craig; University of Massachusetts Press, 1980

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, American Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Drama--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

BLACK DRAMA OF THE FEDERAL THEATRE ERA . Beyond the Formal Horizons...1975. The Research Center for the Federal Theatre Project, George Mason University, for photographs of Federal Theatre plays on permanent loan from the Library...
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Dangerous Theatre: The Federal Theatre Project

Book by George Kazacoff; Peter Lang, 1989

Subjects:

Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)

Collections: Entire Library

...and playwrights Albert Maltz, Marc Connelly, and Clifford Odets. Also serving were Heywood Broun, Jo Mielziner, Martha Graham, Ralph Steiner, and Herbert Kline, of the New Theatre League. 17 Hallie Flanagans sight was on creating FTP...
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Bread and Circuses: A Study of Federal Theatre

Book by Willson Whitman; Oxford University Press, 1937

Subjects:

Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)

Collections: Entire Library

...Bread and Circuses A STUDY OF FEDERAL THEATRE By WILLSON WHITMAN New York OXFORD...3 Scope of Federal Theatre activities -- New York success -- country-wide...10 Origin of the Federal Theatre project in need for emergency employment...

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American Theatre and the Culture of the Cold War: Producing and Contesting Containment, 1947-1962

Journal article by Jonathan Chambers; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 24, 2004

Subjects:

American Theatre and the Culture of the Cold War: Producing and Contesting Containment, 1947-1962 (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...a fascinating reading of the initial productions of Clifford Odets A wake and Sing and Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman. As entry...containment liberalism" branded cold war culture in general, and the theatre specifically. Hence, it is in this section that the reader is...
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Still Fervent: Phoebe Brand at 96: The Last of the Group Theatre and of the First Generation of American Stanislavsky System Actors

Journal article by Matthew Andrews; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 25, 2005

Subjects:

Brand, Phoebe, Theatrical actors--Interviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...notably, the Group Theatre gave rise to the...playwrights, Clifford Odets. Latter day luminaries...people who are in the theatre, looking for someone...play like Clifford Odets who would inspire...they? You see, the Theatre Guild had their...had their Clifford Odets. You have to have...
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Books Received

Journal article; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 24, 2004

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Directing. New York, NY: RCR Creative Press, 2003. pp.xxvii + 126. $19.95 cloth. Herr, Christopher J. Clifford Odets and American Political Theatre. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. pp. xii + 177. $49.95 cloth. Hill, Errol G. and James V. Hatch. A History...
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Dorothy Parker and the Politics of McCarthyism

Journal article by Milly S. Barranger; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 26, 2006

Subjects:

American writers--History, American writers--Political activity, American writers--Works, Authors, American--History, Authors, American--Political activity, Authors, American--Works, McCarthyism--History, Parker, Dorothy--History, Parker, Dorothy--Political activity, Parker, Dorothy--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Elia Kazan, Edward G. Robinson, Clifford Odets, Lillian Hellman, and Abe Burrows. By...Parker had a modest career in the Broadway theatre. However, for the period in which she wrote more than seventy theatre reviews for Vanity Fair, Ainslees, the...
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The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia

Journal article by Tom Mitchell; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 25, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Keathley, but not Gregory Moser, or the Group Theatres Cheryl Crawford. It includes Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, and Eugene ONeill, but not...the scholarly community and the community of theatre practitioners. Further, it will enable investigation...

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For the Love of Odets

Magazine article by Edward Karam; American Theatre, Vol. 13, September 1996

Subjects:

Dramatists--Works, Odets, Clifford--Works, Theatrical producers and directors--Works, Woodward, Joanne--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...year for Clifford Odets. Last November...August, Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts...work of the Group Theatres star writer in classes...flesh brush with Odets, who died in 1963...are evidence that Odets is "a great playwright...at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge...
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Can "Awake and Sing!" Still Sing? Fichandler and Sher Are out to Prove That Odets's Family Saga Isn't Obsolete

Magazine article by Misha Berson; American Theatre, Vol. 23, March 2006

Subjects:

Awake and Sing! (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Broadway theater--Works, Dramatists--Works, Fichandler, Zelda--Works, Odets, Clifford--Works, Playwrights--Works, Sher, Bartlett--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...fringes of the Group Theatre to become one of...writer was Clifford Odets, and the play that...Hollywood Television Theatre" adaptation, now...1930s milieu the Odets script depicts. Yet...households (and Yiddish theatres) of the 1930s. According...European Jewish stock, Odets excised the Yiddishisms...
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Awake and Paint!

Magazine article by Gerald Weales; American Theatre, Vol. 13, September 1996

Subjects:

Odets, Clifford--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...Museum of Art through Oct. 14 in conjunction with the Williamstown Theatre Festivals production of Rocket to the Moon, directed by Joanne Woodward...Philadelphia-based writer Gerald Weales is the author of Clifford Odets: Playwright (Methuen).
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Season Preview 2005-06: A Comprehensive Listing of Productions. Dates and Directors at TCG Theatres Nationwide

Magazine article by Eve Zappulla; American Theatre, Vol. 22, October 2005

Subjects:

Drama--Calendars, Drama--Planning, Drama--Rankings, Plays--Calendars, Plays--Planning, Plays--Rankings, Theatre Communications Group--Calendars, Theatre Communications Group--Planning

Collections: Entire Library

...Randolph-Wright (also dir). Nov 4-10. Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets; dir: Zelda Fichandler. Jan 26-Mar 5. Lady Day at Emersons Bar...Lanie Robertson; dir: Kenneth Lee Roberson. Apr 6-Jun 4. FOLGER THEATRE, (202) 544-7077, www.folger.edu Folger Theatre: Much Ado About...
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Sisters, Samovars and Second Acts

Magazine article by Rachel Shteir; American Theatre, Vol. 15, April 1998

Subjects:

Moscow Art Theatre--History, Russia--Art

Collections: Entire Library

...of its perfection sprang up. Soon, the works of writers like ONeill and Odets were being happily embraced, and new vibrant, realistic, neurotic era in the American theatre had begun. A little too neurotic, in fact. Ultimately, the dream of a...

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Play's Revival Pays off Raven Theatre Offers Funny, Touching 'Iguana'

Newspaper article by Barbara Vitello; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 23, 2007

Subjects:

Theater

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Rating: For adults Over the past few months, Miller, ONeill, Odets and Williams have been well-served by Steppenwolf, Actors Workshop...their revivals of American classics. Add to that list Raven Theatre, whose straightforward production of Tennessee Williams "The...
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It Wasn't Always a 'Sweet Smell'

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 7, 2006

Subjects:

Lancaster, Burt, Odets, Clifford

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...American Film Institute Silver Theatre.This brief revival is part of...screenplay was entrusted to Clifford Odets (1906-63). Although years removed...and Hollywood transplant, Mr. Odets used the opportunity to put...also clarifies how much Mr. Odets contributed to the movies most...
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Hope in Hard Times: '30S-Era Play Still Resonates

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), January 17, 2008

Subjects:

Awake and Sing! (Play)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...bookshelf ..." Odets, who was born...influential Group Theatre, a company he...Blues." But Group Theatre leader Lee Strasberg...kitchen drama" - and Odets reworked it for...What: Clifford Odets 1935 drama Where: Very Little Theatre, 2350 Hilyard...
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Robert Gore-Langton; Glamour: Stockard Channing Plays the Matriarch Bessie

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 7, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...AND SING! by Clifford Odets Almeida Theatre, London THIS 1935 play...thestarring role. Clifford Odets is one of those dead...theshape of American theatre, his stuff strikes me...and gangster tough. But Odets ear for streetdialogue...
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Theater; Mini-Reviews

Newspaper article by Nelson Pressley; The Washington Times, February 19, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...WAITING: AN EPILOGUE - Theater J. Clifford Odets landmark 1930s labor play, with an original...MEDECIN (LOVE IS THE BEST DOCTOR) - Le Neon Theatre. Molieres romantic comedy/medical satire...ESTHER - The Center Company and Horizons Theatre - (TWO AND ONE-HALF STARS). Richard Rashkes...

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Odets, Clifford

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...an actor and in 1931 joined the Group Theatre . Turning his attention from acting to playwriting, Odets soon came to be regarded as the most gifted...Music (1939), and Clash by Night (1942). Odets spent many years in Hollywood writing film...
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Group Theatre

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

GROUP THEATRE organization formed in New York City in 1931 by Harold Clurman , Cheryl...Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty, and Golden Boy, all by Clifford Odets . In 1937, Clurman became sole director. Although the group disbanded in...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Jerzy Grotowski s Polish Laboratory Theatre were followed by a mixing and merging...Mines (1970 ) and Chicagos Steppenwolf Theatre Co. (1976 ); the Canadian writer-director...Bieber, The History of Greek and Roman Theatre (2d ed. 1961); B. Clark, ed., European...

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