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Blue Jeans by Joseph Arthur. Fourteenth Street Theater, 1890

Does A Tiger Wear A Neck Tie by Don Petersen, Belasco Theatre, 1969. The play helped launch the career of Al Pacino, winning a Tony Award for Best Dramatic Actor in a Supporting Role.

Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets THE GROUP THEATER

Dead End by Sidney Kingsley. Belasco Theater, 1935. Dir. Sidney Kingsley. "Dead end kids."

Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets. Belasco Theater, 1935. GROUP THEATER, DIRECTED BY HAROLD CLURMAN. SET: BORIS ARONSON. CAST: JULES GARFIELD--AKA JOHN, MORRIS CARNOVSKY, J. EDWARD BROMBERG, STELLA ADLER, LUTHER ADLER, SANFORD MEISNER, ART SMITH. Considered one of the major achievements of the Group Theater.

"In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures…In any true piece of art…the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section." -Michael Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, translated from the Russian "Visnnevyi sad"by Constance Garnett. Civic Repertory Theater, 1928. Directed by Eva Le Galliene. (With Harold Moulton and Alla Nazimova.) This was a revival of the Masterwork originally produced at the Moscow Art Theater in 1904. Directed by Constantin Stanislavski.

Porgy by Dorothy and Du Bose Hayward (from his novel.) Guild Theater, 1927 (Act 2, scene 4: Charleston crown-actor Jack Carter-rushes out into the storm to save Clara)

A Pulitzer Prize Winner. 1933 Group Theatre Dir. Lee Strasberg. Above, minute preparations for an operation to save a nurse suffering from an abortion after an affair with one of the young doctors. "At the first preview of Men in White, the audience found a passing reference to the moon funny. They understood that an affair between a lonely intern and a pretty nurse was to follow. It took a while to discover that it was the word, and not the scene, that had caused the "bad" laugh"-Harold Clurman