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St. Louis Jewish Light

(From left) Julie Layton, Gary Wayne Barker, Elizabeth Townsend and  Bobby Miller perform in the New Jewish Theatre’s ‘Awake and Sing.’

NJT soars with ‘Awake and Sing’

BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-In-Chief EmeritusPublished April 27, 2011

Clifford Odets, one of the leading playwrights of left-wing social protest and a master craftsman of Depression-era Jewish family dynamics, would no doubt be proud of the soaring New Jewish Theatre production of one of his best plays, "Awake and Sing,"...

The cast rehearses ‘Awake and Sing!’ last week. From left are Aaron Orion Baker, Julie Layton, Bobby Miller, Gary Wayne Barker and Elizabeth Ann Townsend. Photo:  Lisa Mandel

Theatrical collaboration

BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished April 21, 2011

In the Great Depression, Clifford Odets wrote "Awake and Sing!," a play about a family's responses to challenges that sound eerily familiar. Kathleen Sitzer, artistic director of the New Jewish Theatre, ticks off those challenges: A broken economy, war...

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