Interview: Mia Katigbak on NAATCO's Obie-winning Production of Odets' "Awake and Sing!"
Now in its 24th season, the National Asian-American Theater Company (NAATCO) is presenting Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets' Depression-era play about the Bergers, a Jewish family, living in the Bronx and contending with financial hardship and each other's irritating personalities. As matriarch Bessie Berger, Mia Katigbak is perhaps the best demonstration of the validity of NAATCO's mission to "reach across ethnic bou…