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{{Short description|1935 play by Clifford Odets}}
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'''''Waiting for Lefty''''' is a 1935 [[Play (theatre)|play]] by the [[United States|American]] [[playwright]] [[Clifford Odets]]; it was his first play to be produced. Consisting of a series of related [[vignette (literature)|vignettes]], the entire play is framed by a meeting of [[Taxicab|cab]] drivers who are planning a [[Strike action|labor strike]]. The framing uses the audience as part of the meeting.

The play debuted on Sunday, January 6, 1935, at the [[Civic Repertory Theatre]] on 14th Street, as part of a benefit performance for ''New Theatre'' magazine. It premiered on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre on March 26, 1935, under the auspices of the [[Group Theatre (New York)|Group Theatre]], a New York City theatre company founded by [[Harold Clurman]], [[Cheryl Crawford]] and [[Lee Strasberg]], of which Odets was a member. The company was founded as a training ground for actors, and also to support new plays, especially those that expressed the social and political climate of the day. The play was requested by many theater and labor groups in numerous other cities around the United States. It premiered in London in 1936 at [[Unity Theatre, London|Unity Theatre]], and was revived there most recently in 2013.