Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty has one more week at Classic Stage Company. The revival now plays through Sunday, December 6, and CSC says this second extension will be the last.
The closing date had been November 29, set when the run was first extended in October. CSC, where Jill Rafson is producing artistic director, puts the second extension down to demand. Tickets for the added performances are on sale now.
The production is the first that Steven Pasquale has directed. He is better known to CSC audiences as an actor, from its staging of Assassins. Here he treats Odets’ 1935 play, in which Depression-era New York cab drivers gather to decide on a strike while they wait for their leader to arrive, as a meeting the audience sits in on, with the theater dressed as a union hall and the story carried by live music and movement.
The score and arrangements are by Yeller Tooth, the duo of Sahar Milani and Cameron Scoggins, who are both in the cast. Susan Misner, whose screen credits include “Fosse/Verdon,” choreographs.
The company is Tony Award nominee Tala Ashe, Raffi Barsoumian, Austin Durant, Greg Hildreth, Adam Kantor, Doireann Mac Mahon, Zach McNally, Milani, Scoggins and Henry Stram.
Sets are by Scott Adam Davis, costumes by Márion Talán de la Rosa, lighting by Mextly Couzin and sound by Palmer Hefferan. Buzz Cohen is the production stage manager.
The notices are collected in our review roundup. CSC is now quoting Sara Holdren of New York Magazine, who called the evening “A review and a revue of the movement.”
After Waiting for Lefty closes, CSC’s season continues in December with Penelope, starring Grace McLean and directed by Eva Steinmetz.
Waiting for Lefty runs at CSC’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater, 136 East 13th Street, through Sunday, December 6. Book tickets for Waiting for Lefty.
