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Lauren Ambrose, Ben Gazzara, Zoe Wanamaker to Star in Lincoln Center's Awake and Sing!
By Kenneth Jones
22 Dec 2005
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Ben Gazzara, with his wife.
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| photo by Aubrey Reuben | Lincoln Center Theater's spring 2006 revival of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! will star Lauren Ambrose, Ned Eisenberg, Ben Gazzara, Jonathan Hadary, Peter Kybart, Pablo Schreiber, Richard Topol and Zoe Wanamaker.
The classic American play first staged in the Depression by The Group Theatre will be seen at the Belasco Theatre — where the drama originally opened in 1935. Previews begin March 23, 2006, toward an opening night of April 17. Bartlett Sher directs. The production celebrates the playwright's centenary.
LCT's usual Broadway home, the Vivian Beaumont Theater, is currently occupied by the Tony Award-winning musical The Light in the Piazza, which Sher staged. Piazza's Tony Award winning designers — Michael Yeargan (sets), Catherine Zuber (costumes) and Christopher Akerlind (lighting) — will create the bleaker world of Awake and Sing!
Many know the title, but Awake and Sing! isn't often revived. It's a portrait of a Jewish family struggling through the Depression in the Bronx. It is considered Odets' masterpiece, and a major work produced by The Group Theatre, the short-lived collective of actors, writers, designers and directors whose members were interested in socially-relevant works and a performance style steeped in gritty realism.
Actress Lauren Ambrose is widely known for playing Claire Fisher in TV's "Six Feet Under." Awake and Sing! will mark her New York stage debut. In London, she co-starred in the National Theatre's production of Sam Shepard's Buried Child, directed by Matthew Warchus.
Ned Eisenberg's theatre credits include the Broadway production of The Green Bird, roles Off-Broadway at the Second Stage, Vineyard Theatre, Naked Angels, Theatre for A New Audience and regionally at the Long Wharf Theatre and the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and in the national tour of Lost in Yonkers.
Ben Gazzara created the role of Brick in the original production of Tennessee Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, and received Tony nominations for his performances in the 1976 revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Hughie/Duet and the original production of A Hatful of Rain. He was most recently nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his solo performance as Yogi Berra in Nobody Don’t Like Yogi.
Jonathan Hadary last appeared at Lincoln Center Theater in Jules Feiffer's A Bad Friend. His Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include All Shook Up, The Best Man, Gypsy with Tyne Daly (Tony Award nomination), As Is, Torch Song Trilogy, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Assassins, Scrambled Feet and God Bless You Mr. Rosewater.
Peter Kybart has appeared on the New York stage in the Broadway productions of Judgment at Nuremberg and The Diary of Anne Frank.
Pablo Schreiber is currently in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Mr. Marmalade.
Richard Topol appeared on Broadway last season in Julius Caesar. His extensive theatre credits include the Off-Broadway production of Omnium Gatherum as well as roles with the Acting Company, Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, WPA Theatre and regionally with the Long Wharf Theatre, Yale Rep, Hartford Stage and McCarter Theatre.
Zoe Wanamaker received Tony nominations for her performances on Broadway in Electra, Loot and Piaf. The daughter of American actor Sam Wanamaker, she is one of England's leading actresses, and appears regularly on the London stage in productions at the National Theatre (most recently His Girl Friday and Battle Royal), the Royal Shakespeare Company (Trevor Nunn's production of Once in a Lifetime, for which she won an Olivier Award, Othello, Mother Courage and Her Children) and elsewhere.
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