Waiting For Lefty 1935

You can now get a first look at Classic Stage Company’s new revival of Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty, directed by Steven Pasquale. Check out a photo of the cast on stage!

BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge stopped by the rehearsal studio to catch up with Pasquale and the company about revisiting this American classic, finding new ways to tell its story, and why its message continues to resonate today. Watch the full interview in this video.

Classic Stage Company will offer $30 rush seating to union/guild members, inspired by the workers at the heart of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty playing Off-Broadway.

Classic Stage Company will present a series of sit-in conversations following select performances of Clifford Odets' WAITING FOR LEFTY, examining labor activism and the labor movement.

Watch a video of the cast of Classic Stage Company's Waiting For Lefty perform 'The Diggers Song' before performances begin October 15. Get an exclusive first listen to the music featured in the Steven Pasquale-directed play.

Rehearsals are underway for Classic Stage Company's upcoming production of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty, featuring original music and arrangements by Yeller Tooth, choreographed by Susan Misner, and directed by Steven Pasquale. Opening Classic Stage Company's 2026-2027 season, Waiting for Lefty will run from October 15 – November 22, 2026 at CSC's Lynn F. Angelson Theater. The cast just met the press and you can check out photos here.

Rehearsals are underway for Classic Stage Company's upcoming production of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty, directed by Steve Pasquale. See rehearsal photos!

Adam Kantor has joined the cast of Classic Stage Company's upcoming production of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty, set to be presented Off-Broadway in October.

BroadwayWorld has your official fall 2026 Off-Broadway preview, a complete guide to everything opening Off-Broadway! See West End transfers, stars in play revivals, multiple world premieres and more.

Austin Durant and Henry Stram will join the company of Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty, with original music and arrangements by Yeller Tooth, choreographed by Susan Misner and directed by Steven Pasquale.

Classic Stage Company has revealed the cast for Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty, with original music and arrangements by Yeller Tooth, choreographed by Susan Misner and directed by Steven Pasquale.

Classic Stage Company has revealed their 2026-27 slate of productions for CSC’s 59th season, including Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty directed by Steven Pasquale and more.

Point 5 Collective and The Lee Strasberg Creative Center will present the first staging of Clifford Odets' unpublished one-act play, THE NURSERY, at The Sam Theater at The Flea. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Logophile Productions presents STILL WAITING FOR LEFTY, a new play by Luke Bond, at Teatro Latea in NYC this Independence Day weekend. Performances are on July 4, 5, and 6.

Discover Clifford Odets' WAITING FOR LEFTY, a powerful play about economic turmoil during the Great Depression, presented by SoHo Shakespeare Company & Small Boat Productions at The Flea Theater from August 22 to September 8, 2024.

Quintessence Theatre Group, Philadelphia's professional classic theatre, continues Season XIII: Celebrating the Extraordinary with Clifford Odets' American classic Waiting For Lefty. Directed by Kyle Haden, Waiting For Lefty remains an incendiary and revolutionary play about the growing pains of labor in capitalist America, and starts previews January 18, with an Opening Night Saturday, January 21 at 7:30 p.m.

The Civilians is presenting the newest members of The R&D Group, marking the Group’s 11th season. The R&D Group is comprised of playwrights, composers, and directors who work together as a writing group for nine months to develop new plays and musicals.

The famed Neighborhood Playhouse will host a special event on Monday, September 20 to celebrate the re-opening of the school for in-person classes and unveil the first phase of capital improvements made over the last year to its iconic facility at 340 East 54th Street.

Waiting for Lefty is a well-known piece of agitprop theatre, written in 1935 when America was in the midst of the Great Depression and saw no light at the end of the tunnel.

Waiting for Lefty will be presented by Reamus Youth Theatre and directed by Joanne Lawler, May 7 to 22 at Maitland Repertory Theatre.

This week's Theater Stories features the Longacre Theatre! Learn about the shows to have graced the theater's stage including A Bronx Tale, The Prom, and The Lightning Thief, the next show that is set to open at the theater, Diana, and much more!

BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the greatest theatrical works (non-musical) from 1920-2020; see if your favorites made the list!

New Yiddish Rep's production of Clifford Odets' 1935 masterpiece AWAKE AND SING! begins performances today (Saturday) at 2 pm, with Opening Night set for December 6th at the Theater at the 14th Street Y, 344 East 14 Street (between First & Second Aves.) A Yiddish version of AWAKE AND SING! was produced on Broadway by WPA's Federal Theatre Project in 1938 and it is this translation that is being performed in the current Off-Broadway revival with English supertitles.

Luzer Twersky, star of the upcoming Off-Broadway revival of Clifford Odets' masterpiece AWAKE AND SING!, is the subject of the new film documentary ONE OF US, which received unanimous rave reviews upon its October 20th Netflix premiere.

New Yiddish Rep will present Clifford Odets' 1935 masterpiece AWAKE AND SING! beginning November 25th at the Theater at the 14th Street Y, 344 East 14 Street (between First & Second Aves.)