Waiting For Lefty

Waiting For Lefty

Oracle Theatre
1802 W. Berenice Chicago

LEFTY premiered in 1935 at the Group Theatre in New York, of which Odets was a member, and it was a critical success for the company. The play is written as a series of vignettes that spotlight characters trying to make their way during the economic struggles of the early 1930's, and it is loosely based on the events of a New York city taxicab drivers' strike in 1934. The play opens as the cab drivers are on the verge of a strike. Joe Keller is called upon to speak in the absence of their union president, Lefty. The play interweaves stories of corruption in industry with the personal stories of people trying to make a living wage.

Thru - Jul 27, 2013