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The story of Noah and the Ark is a musical adaptation of Clifford Odets' play The Flowering Peach and is retold with Noah and his family characterized in modern Jewish vernacular ... It seems that the building of the ark was only the first of Noah's many daunting challenges in a journey that wasn't always smooth sailing. By turns inspirational and hilarious, it's good fun from The Good Book and when the land has dried, man and beast alike are invited to go forth and prosper in a bright New World.More quotes »
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NYC weekend picks: 'Photograpy and the American Civil War' at the Met
picks for what to do in the city this weekend. Theater "THE BIG KNIFE" Bobby Cannavale stars in this revival of Clifford Odets ' 1949 drama about the downside of Hollywood success. WHEN | WHERE Friday night at 8, Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m., Read more »
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Playcrafters bring Odetsâ drama to Skippack stage
PA Continued... Up next for Playcrafters of Skippack is a revival of a bittersweet dramatic Depression-era story: Clifford Odets’ award-winning stage play “Awake and Sing.” “It’s his most famous play,” said longtime veteran director Arnie Finkel of the Philadelphia-born from Montgomery Media Read more »
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PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: A Two-Show Day at Broadway's The Big Knife with Stage and Screen Star Joey Slotnick
he willing to go before he quits the movie business for good? Set in a glossy world of rumor mills and rocky friendships, Clifford Odets' The Big Knife is about living the life you always wanted but wanting something more." This marks the first new Broadway from Playbill Read more »
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STUCK ON THE B LIST
absolutely no denying that the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Clifford Odets’ rarely seen 1949 drama is a tedious, misconceived and altogether embarrassing misfire. But the real question is whether the blame should be placed primarily on Odets, as from Theater News Online Read more »
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Quoted: Clifford Odets underwhelmed by brush with Camelot
eyes are too close together and hers are too far apart.’” – Walt Whitman Odets recalling his famous playwright father Clifford Odets’s reaction to meeting Jack and Jackie Kennedy, when they sought his help as a speechwriter for the 1960 campaign, in an interview from The Washington Post Read more »
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Theater: A Dull "Big Knife," A Noble "La Ruta" Spotlights Injustice
1/2 out of **** THE BIG KNIFE * out of **** ROUNDABOUT THEATRE AT AMERICAN AIRLINES Perhaps the recent fad for writer Clifford Odets will start to fade now. His dusty dinosaur Awake And Sing! was magically given a pitch-perfect revival that somehow managed from The Huffington Post Read more »
