Awake and Sing! Audiobook (Free)

Clifford Odets’ masterpiece, starring Mark Ruffalo, Richard Kind and Ben Gazzara, provides alive the struggles of the working-class family aspiring towards the promise of the American Fantasy. Even as they withstand the country’s worst financial nightmare, three decades of the immigrant family are crowded right into a Bronx tenement, fiercely established to remain afloat, no real matter what the cost.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:

Emily Bergl as Hennie Berger

Ben Gazzara simply because Jacob

Jonathan Hadary as Myron Berger

Jane Kaczmarek as Bessie Berger

Richard Kind as Uncle Morty

Peter Kybart mainly because Schlosser

Mark Ruffalo while Moe Axelrod

Raphael Sbarge while Sam Feinschreiber

Peter Smith mainly because Ralph Berger

Directed by Bartlett Sher. Documented before a live target audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.