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Lonny Chapman Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
The economic ravages of 1930s New York threaten to destroy the tenuous ties that bind a working class family in social dramatist Clifford Odets’ acclaimed Depression-era drama Awake and Sing. First produced in 1935, the play tells the passionate and ultimately hopeful story of the Bergers, a family of Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, as they deal with the hardships of the era. Matriarch Bessie is willing to crush her children’s dreams in order to keep the struggling clan intact, but the irrepressible spirit of youth refuses to be extinguished in Odets’ soaring, timeless ode to the American working class.
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