Odets

[ oh-dets ]

noun

1. Clifford, 1906–63, U.S. dramatist.

Odets

/ əʊˈdɛts /

noun

1. OdetsClifford19061963MUSTHEATRE: dramatist Clifford. 1906–63, US dramatist; founder member of the Group Theatre. His plays include Waiting for Lefty (1935) and Golden Boy (1937)

Example Sentences

He made his directorial debut in 2016, overseeing a production of Clifford Odets’s boxing play “Golden Boy” that was staged at a New York gym with actors also afflicted by Parkinson’s.

From Washington Post

At 20, he directed an Off Broadway revival of Clifford Odets’s drama “The Big Knife.”

From New York Times

This isn’t Clifford Odets or Norman Mailer, but an epic adventure of possibility and positivity.

From Washington Post

Shot in velvety black and white amid a midtown Manhattan that’s both sleazy and sophisticated, “Sweet Smell of Success” has earned a small but devoted following, mostly for Clifford Odets’s compulsively quotable dialogue.

From Washington Post

The other subsidized his good friend, playwright-director Clifford Odets, until the end of Odets’ days.

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