Six More Actors Join Broadway's Awake and Sing! Revival

Manhattan Theatre Club has added six actors to its Broadway revival of Clifford Odets's Awake and Sing!, the company announced. The new cast includes Michael Aronov, Benjamin Pelteson, Richard Schiff, Stephen Schnetzer, Micaela Diamond and Will Pullen, according to Deadline.

Aronov plays Moe Axelrod and Pelteson plays Sam Feinschreiber. Diamond takes the role of Hennie Berger, and Pullen plays Ralph Berger. Schiff and Schnetzer also joined the company. They join Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos, whose casting was announced earlier.

The play is a 1935 drama. Odets wrote it, and the Group Theatre first produced it on Broadway that same year. This new production is directed by Tyne Rafaeli.

The schedule has two key dates. Previews begin December 15 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Previews are paid performances held before the official opening, when the company can still adjust the staging and performances. Opening night is January 7, 2027.

Manhattan Theatre Club is a nonprofit company, which means it is run as a charity rather than for profit. Its website says it has opened the Friedman since 2003 and has presented more than 600 premieres. The site also says its productions have won 31 Tony Awards, the top prizes in American theater, and seven Pulitzer Prizes. The company was led for more than five decades by Lynne Meadow and Barry Grove.

Broadway revivals, meaning new productions of older plays, are a regular part of the season. They bring familiar titles back to the stage with new casts and new staging. For audiences, the cast list is often the first sign of what a production will look like.

Those figures are reported weekly once a show opens, and the Broadway League publishes them.

The cast will begin rehearsals ahead of the December 15 start, with the first audiences arriving after that date.