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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

The company's 14th season will continue with Clifford Odets's 1937 drama, "Golden Boy" (Nov. 20-Dec. 19), about a musician torn between his art and a boxing career.

First lady to present award to Young Playrights' Theater Jane Horwitz 2010

But Odets's reputation never really recovered from his HUAC appearance; today his early plays are largely dismissed as propaganda and his later ones as self-justification.

Rocket to the Moon revived 2011

His modern malapropisms helped American theatre burst out of the drawing rooms that had dominated the stage for much of the previous decade; in particular, Odets's plays were among the first in which the recognisable rhythms of Jewish speech found their way into American theatre.

Rocket to the Moon revived 2011

It is that revulsion against sheer commercialism, a belief in values beyond the material, that drove Odets's best work, and may make his plays particularly timely.

Rocket to the Moon revived 2011

In response, Odets's brutal father, whom he referred to as "the business hound" and "a two-bit tsar", rammed the American Dream down his son's throat.

Rocket to the Moon revived 2011

But Odets's significance as a playwright was not in fact restricted to his rabble-rousing.

Rocket to the Moon revived 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

His internal conflict between noble ideals and the pull of material success is reflected in the best of Odets's later work.

Rocket to the Moon revived 2011

Odets's first critical disappointment and only a moderate commercial success when it was first produced, Rocket to the Moon marked the first downturn in his fortunes.

Rocket to the Moon revived 2011