The Bronx

=== Theater ===
[[Clifford Odets]]'s play [[Awake and Sing!|Awake and Sing]] is set in 1933 in the Bronx. The play, first produced at the [[Belasco Theater]] in 1935, concerns a poor family living in small quarters, the struggles of the controlling parents and the aspirations of their children.<ref>{{cite web|title=Clifford Odets {{!}} American dramatist|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clifford-Odets|access-date=October 7, 2020|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>

[[René Marqués]] [[La Carreta|The Oxcart]] (1959), concerns a rural Puerto Rican family who immigrate to the Bronx for a better life.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Gussow|first=Mel|author-link=Mel Gussow|title=Theater: The Oxcart|work=The New York Times}}</ref>

[[A Bronx Tale (play)|A Bronx Tale]] is an autobiographical [[one-man show]] written and performed by [[Chazz Palminteri]]. It is a coming-of-age story set in the Bronx. It premiered in Los Angeles in the 1980s and then played on Off-Broadway. After a film version involving Palminteri and Robert De Niro, Palminteri performed his one-man show on Broadway and on tour in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title='A Bronx Tale: The Musical': Theater Review {{!}} Hollywood Reporter|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/a-bronx-tale-musical-theater-1159895|access-date=October 7, 2020|website=www.hollywoodreporter.com|date=November 9, 2018}}</ref>