Career (play)

Career is a 1956 comedy play by James Lee. It was later turned into the 1959 movie Career, also written by Lee.

Productions

The show was dedicated to Margo Jones, and opened on August 28, 1956, at the Alley Theatre, Houston.
After its run in Houston, it ran Off-Broadway at the Seventh Avenue South Playhouse, directed by Charles Olsen, design by David Hays, starring Charles White, Charles Aidman, Nancy Rennick, Clifton James, Forrest Wood, Frances Armstrong, Richard Goldhurst, Norman Rose, Mary James, William Long, Jr., Norma Crane, Bernard Reed, Dick Stahl, and Larry Hagman.

Reviews

Brooks Atkinson, of the New York Times, wrote that it was "fundamentally knowledgeable and discerning...obviously, Mr. Lee knows what he is writing about, the spurious enthusiasm for old friends, the cynicism and squalor, the ruthless competition, the corruption of personal character, the affront to personal dignity."