This Studio 180 Theatre production, directed by Joel Greenberg, will feature a cast of 10 of the country’s finest artists who will portray more than 40 characters as they bring to dramatic life this story about the transformative power of theatre. In October 2022, Indecent will have its long-anticipated Toronto premiere. In 2017, it transfers to Broadway, where its reception is the opposite to the one that greeted God of Vengeance almost a century ago, winning two Tony Awards. The play opens in New York at the prestigious off-Broadway Vineyard Theatre. Indecent is immediately praised as gripping and wildly entertaining. The play explores the nature of theatre, anti-Semitism, censorship, politics, homophobia and true love. Combining music, song, dance and comedy, Indecent takes us behind-the-scenes to tell the true story of this forgotten controversy. Premiering at Yale Repertory Theatre, she calls her play Indecent. In 2015, inspired by the controversy of God of Vengeance on Broadway, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel debuts a play about this explosive moment in theatre history.

Suddenly this evocative work of Jewish culture that explores religious hypocrisy among other social issues, is a cause célèbre. The entire cast is arrested and charged with obscenity. What European audiences had found brilliant, dazzling and moving, Broadway audiences respond with shock and disgust.

In 1923, after highly celebrated and groundbreaking productions in Europe, Sholem Asch’s drama God of Vengeance finally opens on Broadway. I guaranted 100% privacy.Your information is safe.BUY TICKETS The Tony Award-Winning Play Generously supported in the memory of Willmott Bruce Hunter Paula Vogel’s newest work traces the trajectory of the show’s success through its tour in Europe to its abrupt and explosive demise on Broadway in 1923-including the arrest of the entire production’s cast and crew.Paula Vogel's play How I Learned to Drive received the 1998 Pulitzer Download PDF Read Online Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play’s subject matter wasn’t deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of an amorous affair between two women.

“Indecent reminds us of the power of art to tell us truths long before we are able to recognize them as such.” - Los Angeles Times“Indecent sheds an eye-opening light on a little-known time when theatrical history, Jewish culture, and the frank depiction of homosexuality intersected, with explosive results.” - New York TimesWhen Sholem Asch wrote God of Vengeance in 1907, he didn’t imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach.

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