GOLDEN BOY, by Clifford Odets, charts the swift rise of a gifted twenty-one-year-old violinist, Joe Bonaparte (Seth Numrich - Albert Narracott in War Horse), who is corrupted by fame and fortune when he chooses to become a professional boxer. Surrounding his hero with a gallery of sharply written characters who try to shape and guide Joe's destiny, Odets lays out the young man's many facets: sensitive musician, rebellious son, frustrated lover, and self-destructive champion. In the end, it is the seductive promise of the American dream that betrays Joe as it did for so many in the Depression years.

This will be a rare Broadway production for the Odets classic and the second Odets’ work to be presented by Lincoln Center Theater following its Tony Award winning revival of Awake and Sing!, also directed by Bartlett Sher, in 2006.