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Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets’ landmark 1935 drama, will beryllium revived connected Broadway this wintertime successful a Manhattan Theatre Club accumulation starring Tony victor Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!, Marjorie Prime), Jessica Hecht (Eureka Day) and Jeremy Shamos (Clybourne Park, Only Murders successful nan Building).
Produced arsenic portion of MTC’s 2026-27 Broadway season, Awake and Sing! will statesman previews astatine nan Samuel J. Friedman Theatre successful December up of a January 2027 opening night.
The productions was announced coming by MTC. Additional casting and imaginative squad members will beryllium announced astatine a later date.
Directing will beryllium Tyne Rafaeli, who directed this year’s Off Broadway deed Data. The revival is produced by Brian and Dayna Lee, and Nicole Kramer and Stephanie Kramer.
The charismatic synopsis: “It’s nan 1930s, and nan Bronx is simply a furnace. New ideas conflict pinch nan aged amidst nan poorness and shattered promises of nan Great Depression. And 3 generations of nan Berger family, trapped wrong their cramped tenement, struggle to clasp different visions of an American dream.”
“Awake and Sing! is 1 of nan awesome masterpieces of our canon – it makes you laughter and breaks your bosom successful 1 fell swoop,” said MTC Artistic Director Nicki Hunter successful a statement. “Though Odets wrote this communicative of a family caught betwixt nan life they imagined and nan 1 they were saddled pinch astir a period ago, its questions of ambition and sacrifice consciousness arsenic timely arsenic ever. I’m thrilled to bring nan wildly talented Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht, and Jeremy Shamos backmost to nan Friedman stage. With Tyne Rafaeli – who will make her Broadway debut pinch this accumulation – astatine nan helm, I look guardant to sharing nan powerfulness of this play pinch our audiences.”
Awake and Sing! originally premiered connected Broadway successful 1935, produced by nan Group Theatre, and helped found Odets arsenic a awesome sound successful American theater. The play was past produced connected Broadway successful 2006 successful a staging that starred Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, Pablo Schreiber, Ben Gazzara and others.
MTC’s previously announced 2026-27 productions see nan Broadway premiere of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Whitney White; nan world premiere of Montauk by David Hare starring Laura Linney, directed by Daniel Sullivan; and nan American premiere of The Unbelievers by Nick Payne, directed by Knud Adams.
Additional productions for MTC’s 2026-27 play will beryllium announced astatine a later date.
