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.