That 2017 Broadway production has been gorgeously, grittily remounted for the Huntington Theatre Company ( at the Huntington Avenue Theatre through May 25), where it proves to be a lively, fluid piece of stagecraft encompassing the fraught histories of embattled Jewish culture, Yiddish theater, arts censorship and the love that for so long dared not speak its name - all played out to a feverish, toe-tapping klezmer score. The other, which shakes the dust from that long ago scandal, is the 2015 'Indecent,' a seamless collaboration between Pulitzer-winning dramatist Paula Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman, who justly won a Tony Award for her ghostly yet vibrant staging of the work. One is the 1907 Yiddish Theater classic 'God of Vengeance,' by Polish writer Sholem Asch, best remembered for the lesbian kiss that shut down its 1923 Broadway debut and got the cast arrested for indecency. 'Indecent' is a collision of two plays, both spurred by a passionate pair of Jewish women. Charles Erickson) This article is more than 4 years old. Indecent charts the history of the drama and the artists who risked their lives to tell the story the play is written by Vogel, created by Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, and directed by Taichman.The cast of Huntington Theatre Company's production of 'Indecent.' (Courtesy T. In 1923, the reaction to Asch’s work was divided between those who considered it to be groundbreaking and by others as traitorous. The show features music composed by Lisa Gutkin and Aaron Halva, and a cast made up of Katrina Lenk, Mimi Lieber, Max Gordon Moore, Tom Nelis, Steven Rattazzi, Richard Topol, Adina Verson, Ben Cherry, Andrea Goss, and Eleanor Reissa. Indecent began previews on Broadway April 4 following an acclaimed Off-Broadway run at downtown’s Vineyard Theatre last year. The play with music is inspired by the real-life controversy surrounding the 1923 Broadway production of Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance, the love story of two women.įor full priced tickets click here, and for discount ticket options click here. The Broadway transfer of Indecent, the newest work by Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel, officially opened April 18 at The Cort Theatre.

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