Awake and Sing!

New Village Arts Theatre
2787 B State Street Carlsbad

The hard times of 1930s New York threaten to destroy the tenuous ties that bind a working-class family in Clifford Odets' acclaimed Depression-era drama, Awake and Sing!. First produced in 1935, Awake and Sing! is the passionate, ultimately hopeful story of the Bergers, a Bronx-dwelling family of Jewish immigrants dealing with the hardships of the times. Bessie, the Berger matriarch, is willing to crush her children's dreams in order to keep the struggling clan intact, but the irrepressible spirit of youth refuses to be extinguished in Odets' timeless ode to the American working class. See it at the New Village Arts Theatre in Carlsbad.