by CLIFFORD ODETS
Original Music & Arrangements by YELLER TOOTH (SAHAR MILANI AND CAMERON SCOGGINS)
Directed by STEVEN PASQUALE
OCTOBER 15 – NOVEMBER 22, 2026
Previews October 15 – November 1, 2026
Dates subject to change
One room. One choice. One movement. Exploited, exhausted, and pushed to the edge, the taxi drivers of Depression-era New York City gather to make a choice that will change their lives forever. But as they wait for their leader, the tension reaches a fever pitch. Marking the directing debut of acclaimed actor Steven Pasquale, this innovative production uses music and movement to breathe fresh life into Clifford Odets’ 1935 masterpiece, transforming the theater into a high-stakes union hall. Both then and now, speaking truth to power can come at a deadly cost. Don’t miss this visceral collision of classic social protest and contemporary sound. The clock is ticking – are you with us?
THE ARTISTS
CLIFFORD ODETS (1906-1963) In 1931, Clifford Odets began his career as an actor with The Group Theater, a New York company in which he was a founding member. He soon turned to writing, and his first play for the Group, Waiting for Lefty (1935), almost immediately launched him as the most celebrated American playwright of the 1930’s. Lefty, as well as four other major Broadway productions in that decade, introduced theater audiences to subject matter and language that had never before been heard on the American stage. Odets’ work, spanning the three decades preceding his death in 1963, deeply influenced generations of American playwrights to follow. Among Odets’ other best-known plays are Awake and Sing, Paradise Lost, Golden Boy, Rocket to the Moon, Clash by Night, The Big Knife, The Country Girl, and The Flowering Peach. Screenplay credits include The General Died at Dawn, None but the Lonely Heart, Humoresque, The Sweet Smell of Success, and Story on Page One. Film directing credits include None but the Lonely Heart and Story on Page One. Odets also directed the New York premieres of The Country Girl (1950) and The Flowering Peach (1954). Odets’ Golden Boy will be revived at the Almeida Theatre in London this fall starring Josh O’Connor.
STEVEN PASQUALE (Director) Steven Pasquale starred opposite Kerry Washington in the Broadway production of American Son, a role he reprised for the Netflix film adaptation. He starred in Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Ayad Akhtar’s Junk. He received Drama Desk and Drama League nominations for his work in Bartlett Sher and Jason Robert Brown’s The Bridges of Madison County. Off-Broadway, Pasquale won the Lucille Lortel Award for Alex Timbers’ production of The Robber Bridegroom at Roundabout Theatre Company. He also starred in the Ahrens/Flaherty/McNally musical adaptation of A Man of No Importance (LCT; Drama Desk and OCC Nominee), Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins (CSC; OCC Nominee), Teeth (Playwrights Horizons; Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Nominee), and Here We Are (The Shed). On television, he will next appear in Netflix’s “The Four Seasons” and CBS’s “Cupertino”. Pasquale garnered critical acclaim for his roles in FX’s “Rescue Me” and their limited series “American Crime Story: The People Vs. OJ Simpson”. He is also known for his performances in “The Good Fight”/”The Good Wife”, “Divorce”, “Doubt”, “Bloodline”, “The Comey Rule”, “Billions”, “Up All Night”, and “Six Feet Under”. His film credits include Twentieth Century Fox’s Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem and Aurora Borealis.