Indecent

"Indecent": Timely True Story About Artists Who Risked It All for a Controversial Play

In February 1923, audiences witnessed Broadway's first lesbian kiss at the English-language premiere of "God of Vengeance", a play by Yiddish writer Sholem Asch. Days later, the NYPD Vice Squad arrested and prosecuted the entire cast on obscenity charges. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel ("How I Learned to Drive") turned this true story into an acclaimed off-Broadway production. And now, after a 40-year career, she'll make her Broadway debut when it comes to the Cort Theater with the celebrated Off-Broadway cast, including stars Katrina Lenk ("Once") and Adina Verson ("Him"). Timely for its depiction of the challenges faced by new American immigrants and hailed for its klezmer-inspired original score, "Indecent" was named a Critics' Pick by "The New York Times", which called it "a superbly realized, remarkably powerful new play."