Bartlett Sher to Direct Broadway Revival of Awake and Sing!

Lincoln Center Theater will present a Broadway revival of Clifford Odets’ 1935 drama Awake and Sing! at the Belasco Theatre, beginning March 23. The production will be directed by Bartlett Sher, who received a Tony Award nomination for his work on LCT’s production of The Light in the Piazza, and is scheduled to open on April 17. No casting has been announced.

The show’s creative team will be the same as that of Piazza: set designer Michael Yeargan, costume designer Catherine Zuber, and lighting designer Christopher Akerlind, all of whom won Tony Awards for their work on that show.

Awake and Sing! tells the story of a Jewish family in the Bronx that has fallen on hard times during the Depression. The original production by The Group Theater played for more than 200 performances at the Belasco, and the Group brought the show back for another, brief Broadway engagement in 1939. The last Broadway revival was in 1984 at Circle in the Square, directed by Ted Mann and starring Nancy Marchand, Harry Hamlin, Dick Latessa, and Frances McDormand.