Days with the group theatre: An interview with Clifford Odets From: Michigan Quarterly Review | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: Hethmon, Robert H | Copyright University of Michigan Spring 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

On the evening of Sunday, 6 February 1935, on the stage of the Civic Repertory Theatre on New York's 14th Street, occurred one of the extraordinary performances of twentieth-century America. A cast from the Group Theatre contributed to a benefit for a left-wing magazine a one-act play by a young actor of the company named Clifford Odets. The audience's enthusiasm was delirious. Twenty-eight curtain calls. The stage was rushed. People milled about the street. Nobody wanted to go home. Later, s...

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