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"Awake and Sing" Presented by New Jewish Theater

Tera Stahlhut, Neighbor

The New Jewish Theater presents Awake and Sing.

This play by Clifford Odets tells the story of war looming across the ocean, a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise, capitalism is corrupt, the American economy is shaken to its roots, immigrants are uneasy and the family unit is in upheaval. These issues are as relevant today as when this story first premiered in 1935.

This masterpiece is gritty, passionate, funny and heartbreaking. Set in a Bronx tenement during the Great Depression, the Bergers, a working-class Jewish family helmed by Matriarch Bessie, desperately cope with their financial hardships while clinging to dreams of a brighter future.  The tale grabs you by the collar and reminds you of the price of materialism, of an inhuman society. 

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