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Waiting for Bessie

Seven decades after Stella Adler originated the role, will Clifford Odets' Bronx matriarch be harder to digest, or easier to dismiss?
By Karen Hartman | 5:10 PM Mar 23, 2006

Clifford Odets is generally considered to be a great talent of his time, rather than for all times, and his works are not revived nearly so often as those of Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill, or Arthur Miller. But this month, Lincoln Center Theater is restaging Odets’ Awake And Sing!, at the Belasco, the Broadway house ...