[DOC] [TLE] Looking Up at Down: Waiting for Lefty - University of Washington [PAR] "Waiting for Lefty" by Clifford Odets ... Odets made his first big splash in 1935, 
when two of his best plays opened. One ... Theatre, Odets came to him one night 
with an idea for a one-act play that he'd been ... Hearing that the New Theatre 
League was looking for plays, Odets wanted feedback and Clurman encouraged 
him. [DOC] [TLE] archives.nypl.org -- Clifford Odets papers - New York Public Library [PAR] He then wrote Waiting for Lefty a one act play about the taxi drivers' struggle 
against low ... This he entered in the New York Theatre League contest and won 
first prize. .... This was first produced on February 19, 1935, at the Belasco 
Theatre. [DOC] [TLE] Waiting for Lefty - Dictionary definition of Waiting for Lefty ... [PAR] A one-act play in eight episodes, Waiting for Lefty is composed of two basic 
stagings. ... both the Yale Drama Prize and the New Theatre League award for 
1935 and ... In 1937 he wrote Golden Boy, the tale of a troubled prizefighter; it 
became... [DOC] [TLE] Literary Encyclopedia | Waiting For Lefty [PAR] Aug 11, 2012 ... Clifford Odets' long one-act play Waiting for Lefty was inspired by a strike by New 
York ... 1935, as a benefit for New Theatre magazine, before a pro-labour 
audience of about ... There is a legend that the play was written in response to a 
contest, sponsored by the New Theatre League and announced in the... [DOC] [TLE] Clifford Odets and Lillian Hellman Expose the Thirties [PAR] The span from Odets' Waiting for Lefty completed in 1935 and Rocket to the ..... 
the play. Such was certainly the case for Clifford Odets' one act Waiting for Lefty. 
17 ... revolutionary play competition through the New Theatre magazine. ..... By 
the time he wrote Rocket to the Moon he was writing plays that were made for the
. [DOC] [TLE] Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963 - Social Networks and Archival Context [PAR] During the production of his play Paradise Lost in 1935, Odets moved to 
California .... He then wrote Waiting for Lefty a one act play about the taxi drivers' 
struggle ... This he entered in the New York Theatre League contest and won first 
prize. [DOC] [TLE] Playwright Biography, Clifford Odets - Roundabout Theatre ... [PAR] Mar 22, 2013 ... His family moved to New York City when he was six, and Odets grew up ... The 
plays Odets wrote for the Group ensemble reflect his interest in ... Waiting for 
Lefty, his one-act play based on an actual taxi strike, was ... of a playwriting 
contest conducted by the left-wing New Theatre ... 1935: Till the Day I Die [DOC] [TLE] New Theatre - Modern Drama Online [PAR] zations like the New Theatre League and New Theatre magazine. Who 
remembers that ... prize-fifty dollars-in a contest that the magazine sponsored 
jointly with New .... be a short play, like Waiting for Lefty (or a scene from a play), 
in some cases ... Plays of. "social significance" had to be written from one "social 
viewpoint.". [DOC] [TLE] Waiting for Lefty Play Guide by Kelli Marino - issuu [PAR] Aug 8, 2011 ... He continued writing until his death with varying success for New ... Joins Mae 
Desmond Players, also acts with Union City Stock ... one-act play, Waiting for 
Lefty, in three nights during Group Theatre ... Waiting for Lefty wins New Theatre 
magazine play contest. ...... U.S.S.R. admitted to League of Nations. [DOC] [TLE] Introduction - Journals of Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana [PAR] 1935 with a one-act play Waiting for Lefty, which he wrote for a competition, spon
- sored by the New Theatre League and the magazine New Masses. Thus a... [DOC] [TLE] "Speaking a Mutual Language": The Negro People's Theatre ... - JStor [PAR] feel that the play we are doing speaks a mutual language" (Ellison Papers, Box 6
). ... Lennon wrote so enthusiastically to McConnell

Question: In 1935 he wrote "Waiting for Lefty" for a new Theatre League one-act play contest
Answer: Clifford Odets