Actor

A musical play based on the early years of actor Paul Muni.

Awake and Sing!

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.

A Word to the Wives...

The story of two women and how they trick a husband into renovating a kitchen.

Companions in Nightmare

One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer.