Awake and Sing!

Clifford Odets’ masterpiece, starring Mark Ruffalo, Richard Kind and Ben Gazzara, brings to life the struggles of a working class family aspiring to the promise of the American Dream. Even as they endure the country’s worst economic nightmare, three generations of an immigrant family are crowded into a Bronx tenement, fiercely determined to stay afloat, no matter what the cost.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

Emily Bergl as Hennie Berger

Ben Gazzara as Jacob

Jonathan Hadary as Myron Berger

Jane Kaczmarek as Bessie Berger

Richard Kind as Uncle Morty

Peter Kybart as Schlosser

Mark Ruffalo as Moe Axelrod

Raphael Sbarge as Sam Feinschreiber

Peter Smith as Ralph Berger

Directed by Bartlett Sher. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.