![]() An international hit before it triumphed at a Yiddish theater in New York, when “The God of Vengeance” transferred uptown to Broadway, the producer and the actors were arrested for having presented “an indecent, immoral, and impure theatrical performance.” Its depictions of lesbianism and prostitution were not unheard of in world theater at the time, and “The God of Vengeance” had been around for 15 years by the time it got in real trouble. “The God of Vengeance” by Sholem Asch was a deliberately provocative drama that touched a mainstream social nerve in New York in 1922. “Indecent” by Paula Vogel is a play about a play that changed lives. ![]() ![]() Once again, Playhouse on Park has taken a difficult drama, one with deep Jewish themes (including the Holocaust), a play that’s not widely enough known partly because it can be so tricky to do, and given it a strong, fresh production that challenges this scrappy, community-conscious company in all the right ways. ![]()
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