--- description: Anything Goes. Victor Moore as Public Enemy No. 13, with Cole Porter music.Awake and Sing! The agonies of a family in The Bronx, by Clifford Odets, whose Waiting for Lefty is also something to... title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan, Jun. 3, 1935 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan, Jun. 3, 1935 by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 3, 1935 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 3, 1935 4:00 AM CUT Anything Goes. Victor Moore as Public Enemy No. 13, with Cole Porter music. Awake and Sing! The agonies of a family in The Bronx, by CliffordOdets, whose Waiting for Lefty is also something to see. The Children’s How. What happens when a fiendish little girl reallyapplies herself to disrupting a boarding school. The Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood’s melodrama, wherein Leslie Howard arranges to have himself shot by a fugitive gangster. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6820652/theatre-best-plays-in-manhattan-jun-3-1935/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6820652/theatre-best-plays-in-manhattan-jun-3-1935/"},"headline":"Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan, Jun. 3, 1935","datePublished":"1935-06-03T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-04T04:06:40.318Z","description":"Anything Goes. Victor Moore as Public Enemy No. 13, with Cole Porter music.Awake and Sing! The agonies of a family in The Bronx, by Clifford Odets, whose Waiting for Lefty is also something to...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6820652/theatre-best-plays-in-manhattan-jun-3-1935/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6820652/theatre-best-plays-in-manhattan-jun-3-1935/","name":"Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan, Jun. 3, 1935"}}]}] ```