"Odets is really great," Harold Rome had Marilyn Cooper sing in I Can Get It for You Wholesale 51 years ago. Thanks to Bartlett Sher's fine production Of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy, we see that Rome is still correct. The play holds up – a bit of a surprise when one considers that Golden Boy's two conflicts were already familiar ones when the play debuted in 1937.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:33AM on January 18, 2013