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Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. Odets was widely seen as successor to Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill as O'Neill began to retire from Broadway's commercial pressures and increasing critical opprobrium in the mid-1930s. From early 1935 on, Odets' socially relevant dramas proved extremely influential, particularly for the remainder of the Great Depression. Odets' works inspired the next several generations of playwrights, including Arthur Miller, Paddy Chayefsky, Neil Simon, David Mamet, and Jon Robin Baitz. After the production of his play Clash by Night in the 1941-42 season, Odets focused his energies on film projects, remaining in Hollywood for the next seven years. He began to be eclipsed by such playwrights as Miller, Tennessee Williams and, in 1950, William Inge.
Except for his adaptation of Konstantin Simonov's play The Russian People in the 1942-43 season, Odets did not return to Broadway until 1949, with the premiere of The Big Knife, an allegorical play about Hollywood. At the time of his death in 1963, Odets was serving as both script writer and script supervisor on The Richard Boone Show, born of a plan for televised repertory theater. Though many obituaries lamented his work in Hollywood and considered him someone who had not lived up to his promise, director Elia Kazan understood it differently. "The tragedy of our times in the theatre is the tragedy of Clifford Odets," Kazan began, before defending his late friend against the accusations of failure that had appeared in his obituaries. "His plan, he said, was to . . . come back to New York and get [some new] plays on. They’d be, he assured me, the best plays of his life. . . .Cliff wasn't 'shot.' . . . The mind and talent were alive in the man."
Actors: Erwin Steinhauer (actor), Rupert Henning (actor), Hakon Hirzenberger (director), Michaela Ronzoni (writer),
Genres: ,Actors: Phillip Johnston (composer), Sheila McLaughlin (director), Sheila McLaughlin (actress), Victoria Boothby (actress), John Erdman (actor), Lee Breuer (actor), Lynne Tillman (director), Lynne Tillman (writer), Lucy Sanger (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Billy Goldenberg (composer), Tom Brocato (miscellaneous crew), Melanie Mayron (actress), Dalene Young (writer), Lee Grant (actress), Angus MacInnes (actor), George Touliatos (actor), John Heard (actor), Dalene Young (actress), Royal Dano (actor), Jeannie Elias (actress), Susan Blakely (actress), Joe Grifasi (actor), Joan Eremin (miscellaneous crew), Fielder Cook (director),
Plot: Based on the fast and frantic life of actress Frances Farmer tracing her life from her childhood in Seattle, through her college years, her flirtation with radical politics, her success in films and the theater, her doomed love affair with Clifford Odets, her physical and mental breakdown, and her ultimate emergence from an institution where she spent five years, to her death from cancer.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, actress, clifford-odets, domineering-mother, drunkenness, filmmaking, frances-farmer, group-theater, mental-illnessActors: Sam Shepard (actor), Allan Rich (actor), Jack Riley (actor), David Schroeder (actor), Woodrow Parfrey (actor), John Randolph (actor), M.C. Gainey (actor), Jonathan Banks (actor), Lee de Broux (actor), Jeffrey DeMunn (actor), James Karen (actor), Kevin Costner (actor), Darrell Larson (actor), Biff Yeager (actor), Lane Smith (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,JOHN DOYLE, The TONY-Winning director on his revival of SWEENEY TODD; also JOHN LAHR, the articulate New Yorker critic on playwright Clifford Odets. Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 and is co-hosted by Michael Riedel (Broadway columnist for the New York Post) and series producer Susan Haskins. The program is one of the few independent productions on PBS and now airs weekly on Thirteen/WNET in New York and WGBH in Boston. Now, CUNY TV offers New York City viewers additional opportunities to catch each week's show. (Of course, Theater Talk is no stranger to CUNY TV, since the show is taped here each week before its first airing on Thirteen/WNET.) The series is produced by Theater Talk Productions, a not-for-profit corporatio...
He arrived on the scene after O'NEILL and before MILLER and WILLIAMS.
John Garfield and Kim Stanley do a scene from the Clifford Odets play "Golden Boy" in this unusual clip from the "Cavalcade of Stars" TV series.
Thomas Griffin performing the role of Phil Cooper in Clifford Odets' "Rocket To The Moon" at The Actors Theatre Playhouse, directed by Sam Pilo.
AWAKE AND SING! is Clifford Odets’ stirring American classic about a working-class Jewish family striving for a better future. Learn more about the production in this exclusive interview with director Melisa Bensussen and cast members Michael Goldsmith, Annie Purcell, Will LeBow, and Lori Wilner. The Huntington Theatre Company production of AWAKE AND SING! plays Nov. 7 – Dec. 7, 2014 at the Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre. Learn more at huntingtontheatre.org/awakeandsing.
HERO Theatre presents "Waiting For Lefty and Great Scenes from Clifford Odets." Please help us meet our $11,000 goal by making your tax-deductible donation at http://www.herotheatre.org/lefty-campaign.html Show dates: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays 1/23, 1/24 at 8pm & 1/25 at 7pm also 1/30, 1/31 at 8pm & 2/1 at 1pm. For show info & tickets or to make your tax-deductible donation, visit us at www.HEROtheatre.org
Animated Video created using Animaker - http://www.animaker.com An animated film based on the popular play "Golden Boy" by Clifford Odets. Not much you can do with two minutes on a free animated website. Pixar or Dreamworks, hmu.
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Actor Ari Cohen Sizes Up Clifford Odets Awake and Sing!
Get cheap The Country Girl Tickets here: http://wos.im/CountryGirl Starring in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl, Martin Shaw must sometimes feel like he has stepped back in time, working on the same play, in the same theatre, for the same producer, 27 years on from when he originally played the young director's role at the Apollo. Shaw is joined on stage by Judge John Deed co-star Jenny Seagrove, and now plays the washed up actor with Seagrove his "country girl" wife. The pair are joined in the cast by Mark Letheren, Peter Harding, Nicholas Day, Luke Shaw and Thomasin Rand for the production, which is directed by Rufus Norris.
PBS American Masters presents Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre Season 3, Episode 8 This edition, hosted by Joanne Woodward, examines the Group Theatre with the help of archival photographs, readings, performance clips, and interviews with individuals associated with the group. Woodward begins with a brief history of the Group Theatre, an ensemble founded by Lee Strasberg, Harold Clurman, and Cheryl Crawford in 1931, and reads from Clurman's book about that period explaining his theories of acting based on real life. Strasberg, Clurman, Crawford, and original members Eunice Stoddard and Ruth Nelson describe its founding and the influence of the Moscow Art Theatre. Robert Lewis, Stella Adler, and Margaret Barker recall being invited to join the group, and Katharine Hepbur...
Keeley Hawes, Joseph Millson, Jessica Raine and Nicholas Woodeson perform this rare revival of Rocket to the Moon by Clifford Odets, the American master of dazzling, acerbic New York repartee. Set in the heat of 1930s New York, passion and the promise of escape turn one man's world upside down... Find out more: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/rocket
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"Tot esperant l'esquerrà". Presentació fora de concurs de la obra teatral "Tot esperant l'esquerrà", de Clifford Odets. Sisena edició del Certamen "Balbina Cortada". Teatre del Patronat Parroquial d'Esparreguera. Diumenge 21 de febrer de 2016 A càrrec de la companyia de teatre: "Per què no, teatre?" de la localitat de El Buc. Direcció: Robert GOBERN i SIMÒ Gravació i edició: Lluís Artigas Jorba ©ESPARREGUERA TV
In "Golden Boy," Clifford Odets' masterpiece of American drama, Joe Bonaparte (Ty Boice) is a young gifted violinist, who defies his family and gives up a career as a classical musician for a chance at immortality in the boxing ring. This play is a blistering and powerful look at fame, fortune, and the seductive promise of the American dream.
Golden Boy is a musical with a book by Clifford Odets and William Gibson, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. Based on the 1937 play of the same name by Odets, it focuses on Joe Wellington, a young man from Harlem who, despite his family's objections, turns to prizefighting as a means of escaping his ghetto roots and finding fame and fortune. He crosses paths with Mephistopheles-like promoter Eddie Satin and eventually betrays his manager Tom Moody when he becomes romantically involved with Moody's girlfriend Lorna Moon. Producer Hillard Elkins planned the project specifically for Sammy Davis, Jr. and lured Odets out of semi-retirement to write the book. The original play centered on Italian American Joe Bonaparte, the son of poverty-stricken immigrants with a disapproving b...
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I do not own the rights to this but am uploading it for others who are interested in viewing it since it's difficult to find and all 3 give great performances. Enjoy! In 1938 New York, a dentist finds his business failing and his marriage on the rocks. Turning 40, he is a hen-pecked husband with little drive left for success. That is, until he starts getting involved with his lively assistant, a free spirit with a penchant for tall tales and a hidden loneliness. Receiving encouragement from his own father-in-law, the two find comfort in each other's attention.
Two By Two is a Broadway musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and music by Richard Rodgers. Based on Clifford Odets's play The Flowering Peach, it tells the story of Noah's preparations for the Great Flood and its aftermath. Directed by Joe Layton, the production opened on November 10, 1970 at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for ten months. The opening night cast included Danny Kaye, Marilyn Cooper, Joan Copeland, Harry Goz, Madeline Kahn, Michael Karm, Tricia O'Neil, and Walter Willison.
Lincoln Center Theater's 75th Anniversary production of the Clifford Odets classic Golden Boy, directed by Bartlett Sher, opened on December 6 at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44 Street), the same theatre where the play premiered in 1937. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there to chat with the cast. (source: http://bit.ly/TLgJBT) 01:16 Bartlett Sher 04:22 Tony Shalhoub 08:11 Danny Burstein 10:37 Anthony Crivello 12:11 Danny Mastrogiorgio 14:42 Yvonne Strahovski 17:13 Seth Numrich
Veteran actor-writer-director-producer Richard Manichello, also Artistic Director of Peekskill Playhouse, chats with Bruce Apar and Frank J. Rich about the contemporary social relevance of Clifford Odets' classic drama, Awake and Sing!, set in 1930s Depression America. Mr. Manichello appeared in the recent Axial Theater production as Uncle Morty, a 1 percenter of his era who clashes with the struggling underclass members of his family.
Una muestra de teatro dirigida por David Alonso. Obras maestras: 1- Tío Vania, Anton Chejov Sonia: Myriam Errepunto Astrov: Luis Chamorro Helena: Pilar García 2- El Muchacho de Oro, Clifford Odets Lorna: Joseifna Pérez Joe: Miguel Ángel Campari 3- A Electra le sienta bien el luto, Eugene O´Neill Lavinia: Irune González Gristina: Paloma Real 4- Hamlet, William Shakespeare Hamlet: Bernardo Hernández Gertrudis: Elena Galán 5- La Casa de Bernarda Alba, Federico García Lorca Martirio: Pilar Vicente Adela: Ainhoa Míguez 6- Tres Sombreros de Copa, Miguel Mihura Dionisio: Ignacio Gómez Paula: Flora Calvo Bubby: Maher El Sayed
THIS IS A VIDEO REBROADCAST OF AN AUDIO PODCAST IMAGES HAVE BEEN ADDED TO ENHANCE YOUR LISTENING AND VIEWING EXPERIENCE. The Random Variety Show Podcast with Charley Miller Season 1 - Episode 01 - Interview with Actor Clayton Gage Originally Released: February 1, 2012 In this our first real episode we interview San Diego based actor, Clayton Gage and Charley reflects on his first week of rehearsals with 'Awake and Sing!' by Clifford Odets at www.powpac.org from March 2 through March 25 2012. EMAIL: TheRandomVarietyShowPodcast@gmail.com TWITTER: http://twitter.com/The_RVS_Podcast FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Random-Variety-Show-Podcast/178834688884573 GOOGLE+: http://plus.google.com/u/0/105038745171055914504/posts WEB SITE: http://therandomvarietyshowpodcast.blogspot....