Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company Presents WAITING FOR LEFTY, 3/22-25

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting today announced a limited New York run of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty, directed by Don K. Williams. Odets' play tackles the subject of income equality in a series of related vignettes framed by the meeting of taxi drivers planning a labor strike in the 1930's.

 

Following a limited run, a Sunday performance will be held in Fort Greene Park as part of Occupy Wall Street's Occupy Town Square. The play runs Thursday, March 22^nd through Sunday, March 25^th. Set in the midst of the Great Depression, Odets' Waiting for Lefty resonates with Occupy Wall Street and the 99 percent movement.

 

The Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company's production of Waiting for Lefty played to sold-out audiences and critical acclaim at the Art of Acting Studio in Los Angeles. The run closed with an explosive, out-of-doors performance at Occupy LA. Now, thanks to the generosity of donors, Lefty has come to New York.

 

Waiting for Lefty launched the Group Theater into the minds of the social conscience in the 1930s. Lefty explores the passionate lives of working-class Americans fighting injustice and searching for a better way of life during the Great Depression, when greed outweighed the value of human life and the only way to forge change was to band together.

 

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