Odets' 'Golden Boy' Gets Golden Revival From Lincoln Center Theater
In these days of the small-cast, tidy domestic drama, what a pleasure it is to encounter Clifford Odets’ soaring, expansive, and tough-as-nails “Golden Boy,” a white-hot dissertation on the downside of the American dream. This 1937 hit blew Odets’ career wide open, and director Bartlett Sher’s immensely satisfying production roars off the stage of the Belasco Theatre (where the original …