Clifford Odets

For American playgoers, "A Taste of Honey" will likely recall Clifford Odets's "Awake and Sing," another play about working-class urban life whose author had a pitch-perfect ear for the way plain people talk.

Getting It Right the First Time 2008

What was Clifford Odets up to in this strange 1938 play?

Review | Theatre | Rocket to the Moon | Venue | Michael Billington 2011

Turning from his comedic work at Britain's Ealing Studios to direct this noirish, all-American masterpiece about greed, ambition, and the perversity of power, Alexander MacKendrick relied on estimable playwright Clifford Odets and writer Ernest Lehman for their scripting talent.

John Farr: Burt Lancaster: Always Larger Than Life John Farr 2011

Turning from his comedic work at Britain's Ealing Studios to direct this noirish, all-American masterpiece about greed, ambition, and the perversity of power, Alexander MacKendrick relied on estimable playwright Clifford Odets and writer Ernest Lehman for their scripting talent.

John Farr: Burt Lancaster: Always Larger Than Life John Farr 2011

The Group Theater, headed by Harold Clurman, who helped blaze the trail for Method acting, went to see Frances Farmer in the show and hired them both for the Broadway production of Clifford Odets's play "Golden Boy" in 1937.

Wry Colonel Amid 'M*A*S*H' Mischief Stephen Miller 2011

LONDON—Clifford Odets 1906-63 was a Russian-Jewish American writer best known as a left-wing playwright, but most familiar to posterity for the screenplay of "Sweet Smell of Success."

A Slow 'Rocket' That Struggles to Take Off Paul Levy 2011

His acclaimed productions of plays like August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" and Clifford Odets's "Awake and Sing!" also earned him Tony nominations, but his last Broadway project, a musical adaptation of the Pedro Almodovar film, "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," closed early after tepid reviews.

Bringing Fresh Eyes to the Opera Thomas Dyja 2011

The beautiful Martha Dodd and her wealthy husband, Alfred Stern, threw fabulous parties in their penthouse apartment in the Majestic that attracted such notable leftists as Lillian Hellman, Paul Robeson, Margaret Bourke-White, and Clifford Odets.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

Next week, the National Theatre is reviving Rocket to the Moon, the 1938 play by the quintessential dramatist of the American depression, Clifford Odets.

Rocket to the Moon revived 2011

The beautiful Martha Dodd and her wealthy husband, Alfred Stern, threw fabulous parties in their penthouse apartment in the Majestic that attracted such notable leftists as Lillian Hellman, Paul Robeson, Margaret Bourke-White, and Clifford Odets.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011