Where there is cruelty and force, there is love, even joy. Presented by Daryl Roth, Elizabeth I. McCann, Cody Lassen, Jerry Meyer, Jay Alix & Una Jackman, Elizabeth Armstrong, Julie Boardman, Four Star Productions, The John Gore Organization, Kathleen K. Johnson, Dana M. Lerner, Marc Levine, Jenn Maley, Mano-Horn Productions, in association with Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Vineyard Theatre. Each of the actors in Indecent (aside from Lemml, the stage manager, played by Doug Hara) play several roles, which requires close attention; thus, for example, the role of Rifkele in God of Vengeance is played by Michaela Shuchman, who plays several different actresses playing Rifkele at various points. One scene in particular grows in stature and meaning each time it is presented. } Indecent proves her point. She tells him she loves it, and prophetically announces that it will be performed all over the world. var F10834_sb_fieldcol='#000000';
And his portrayer, John Plumpis, is the constant, thumping heart of “Indecent.”. After a short prologue in which he introduces the company, the story begins in 1906 Warsaw, where 23-year-old Asch is nervously waiting for his wife's reaction to his first play. It’s the story of all times, cycles of stifled young people rebelling against their stodgy elders, only to become them one day.
by This element of the show first allows for through-lines to be drawn from character to character – Maseda plays both Asch and a would-be Asch named Jonathan Rosen, who approaches the aged Asch many years after God of Vengeance was first staged (more on that later). And, no, this is no small matter. How can we translate for others when we’re not even sure that we understand ourselves? Below is a lightly edited version of Marilyn Stasio’s original review of the Off Broadway production. There is a scene in The Arden Theatre Co.‘s production of Indecent, running through June 23 (directed by Rebecca Wright) that could serve as a synecdoche for the whole show.
A co-production of Baltimore Center Stage, Arena Stage and Baltimore City Rep. Lighting designer: Christopher Akerlind It wasn’t the brothel scenes that disturbed critics, shocked audiences and dragged the show’s producer and leading man into an obscenity trial. A hit in Europe, which didn’t blink a monocle at the lesbian scenes, God of Vengeance brought out the worst in America—intolerance, long-simmering anti-Semitism against Jewish immigrants, as well as homophobia. Eventually, both God of Vengeance and its celebrated author made their way to America, with the play first receiving a Yiddish-language production in the Bowery and then an English-language version at Greenwich Village's celebrated Provincetown Playhouse, home to Eugene O'Neill's early works. Featuring: Ben Cherry, Susan Lynskey, John Milosich, Victor Raider-Wexler, Susan Rome, Emily Shackelford, Maryn Shaw, Alexander Sovronsky, Jake Walker, Max Wolowitz.
Entranced by the play, he becomes the stage manager when it is produced in Berlin, with the famed actor Rudolph Schildkraut (Tom Nelis) starring. Leah Walton is especially adept at this, in her transformation from a slinking German cabaret singer to a grande dame of the Berlin stage (“the legend is flesh and blood, I assure you”) to a wounded, reluctantly Americanizing Polish Jew named Dine (Dorothee, in her new country). As the play becomes a hit — in Berlin, in St. Petersburg, in Constantinople — the frozen tableau of a hypocritical father’s fury starts to amuse. Review: ‘Indecent’ at the Ahmanson pays haunting tribute to a daring Yiddish play Elizabeth A. Davis, right, and Adina Verson embrace as lovers in “Indecent,” a … We do not share data with third party vendors. This is an often-joyous show, and the musicians who, like the rest of the cast, never leave the stage – Jason Gresl, Rachel Massey and Sarah Statler – make it even more so. But when Asch’s drama was translated into English as “The God of Vengeance” and moved uptown from the Provincetown Playhouse to Broadway in 1922, even a worldly theater critic like Heywood Broun was made to feel “a little sick.”. Lemml fell in love with the play one night in 1906. F10834_sb_validateFields.push('F10834_sb_Name'); God of Vengeance may have been controversial, but …
Choreographer:Erika Chong Shuch. But what should have been a powerful ending here feels unfortunately anticlimactic. And it was a sensation in more ways than one, as its controversial subject matter, including the lesbian relationship and the onstage desecration of a Torah, shocked audiences. “This is what it means to be Jewish in America.”.
But for all its stylistic excesses, Indecent exerts an undeniable power, certainly more so than the scenes from Asch's work, which today seem hopelessly melodramatic. BTS to Perform at Mnet Asian Music Awards, Elsa Raven, ‘Back to the Future’ Actor, Dies at 91, Republic Records Signs 14-Year-Old Norwegian Singer Angelina Jordan (EXCLUSIVE), Gayle King Talks Wild Election Night: ‘I Slept in My Clothes and My Spanx’, Brax, Rapper and Social Media Influencer, Dies at 21, Harry Styles and Billie Eilish to Appear in New Gucci Film Series Co-Directed by Gus Van Sant, Eddie Hassell, Actor in ‘The Kids Are All Right’ and ‘Surface,’ Dies at 30 After Being Shot, Election 2020: Presidential Results by State, Warner Bros. Apologizes After ‘Witches’ Sparks Backlash From People With Disabilities, ‘Let Him Go’ Review: Diane Lane, Kevin Costner Head Up a Floridly Gripping Thriller, Former MLB All-Star Steve Finley Swings Into Bucolic Santa Barbara Ranch, Still Without Concerts, Live Nation Revenue Dropped 95% in Its Third Quarter, Louis Vuitton Just Acquired a Massive 549-Carat Rough Diamond From Botswana, Prolonged Election Coverage Holds NFL Primetime Ratings at Bay—For Now, Saddle Up: The Best Cowboy Hats for Men Who Are Feeling Lucky. Rocky Mountain National Park sees historic burn, will remain closed along with national forests, Copper Mountain, Eldora share details on their parking reservation systems for this ski season, The Lumineers' Wesley Schultz just dropped a surprise solo album with covers of Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen and more, George Floyd, gentrification murals vandalized in Denver ahead of 2020 election. Beschler (in addition to his roles as Rabbi Silverman and Officer Bailie, who arrests the actors at the former’s request) plays an American Jewish producer of God of Vengeance, Harry Weinberger. The year is 1923. The full cast of actors and two of the ensemble’s three musicians were the same. Terms of Use | But from time to time the audience can’t help but apply its own knowledge — of the ominous threat of Hitler’s gathering power in Germany, for example — to scenes in which the company calmly discusses whether to bring their successful play to the United States. He has worked for the Jewish Exponent since 2018. “You are pouring gasoline on the flames of anti-Semitism,” says Paretz (Paul Kreppel), host of the salon where “God of Vengeance” is initially read.
It is the “rain scene,” which is compared to the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet for romance and giddy innocence, as the prostitute (Susan Lynskey, radiant and assured as a world-weary presence in numerous characters) dances and canoodles in the rain with her fawnlike love, the brothel owner’s naïve daughter (Emily Shackelford, quicksilver bright in this and a variety of roles). Here’s a sure bet for the regional theater circuit — a play about a play that shocked Broadway and landed both the show’s producer and its leading man in jail. 6:00 PM PDT 5/18/2016 Kurt Hall: Stage Manager. And as Indecent knows, when Asch is played by David Ingram at the end of the show, who had hitherto played the older male characters: even the young radicals become those who wish it would stay in-house, eventually. One correction though, the cute ingenue is Max Wolkowitz, with a K! (In his turning his fellow Jews into the police for offending his sensibilities, Rabbi Silverman finally gets what he really wants: to become Mr. Smith). Review: “Indecent” at Space Theatre is an urgent, delicate look at art, love and antisemitism The Denver Center production runs through Oct. 6 … Community Briefs: Obituary, NMAJH, Genealogy and More, Children of Kristallnacht Survivors Share Their Parents’ Still-Chilling Stories, Letters to the Editor: Thanking Oma, Politics and Israel, What I Learned When I Sat Down With a Repentant White…, A Day in the Life of a COVID-19 Front-Line Worker, Quarantining With My Holocaust Survivor Grandmother, Film Festival Moves Online for 40th Anniversary, You Can Buy an 18th-Century Torah Shield Matching the Israel Museum’s…, If You Loved ‘Borat,’ You’ll Like the Sequel, Oscar Isaac in Talks to Play Jewish Superhero in ‘Moon Knight’…, Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, Simchas Continue — With Modifications, Get Jewish Exponent's Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories, PJDS Annual Gala Honors Gail and Elliot Norry, Reprisal of Simon Wiesenthal Play Streams Online, Two Digital Theater Productions Set to Debut, Philanthropist Suzanne F. Roberts Dies at 98, 40th Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival, Drive In concert benefits Leigh Leckerman Foundation.
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Where there is cruelty and force, there is love, even joy. Presented by Daryl Roth, Elizabeth I. McCann, Cody Lassen, Jerry Meyer, Jay Alix & Una Jackman, Elizabeth Armstrong, Julie Boardman, Four Star Productions, The John Gore Organization, Kathleen K. Johnson, Dana M. Lerner, Marc Levine, Jenn Maley, Mano-Horn Productions, in association with Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Vineyard Theatre. Each of the actors in Indecent (aside from Lemml, the stage manager, played by Doug Hara) play several roles, which requires close attention; thus, for example, the role of Rifkele in God of Vengeance is played by Michaela Shuchman, who plays several different actresses playing Rifkele at various points. One scene in particular grows in stature and meaning each time it is presented. } Indecent proves her point. She tells him she loves it, and prophetically announces that it will be performed all over the world. var F10834_sb_fieldcol='#000000';
And his portrayer, John Plumpis, is the constant, thumping heart of “Indecent.”. After a short prologue in which he introduces the company, the story begins in 1906 Warsaw, where 23-year-old Asch is nervously waiting for his wife's reaction to his first play. It’s the story of all times, cycles of stifled young people rebelling against their stodgy elders, only to become them one day.
by This element of the show first allows for through-lines to be drawn from character to character – Maseda plays both Asch and a would-be Asch named Jonathan Rosen, who approaches the aged Asch many years after God of Vengeance was first staged (more on that later). And, no, this is no small matter. How can we translate for others when we’re not even sure that we understand ourselves? Below is a lightly edited version of Marilyn Stasio’s original review of the Off Broadway production. There is a scene in The Arden Theatre Co.‘s production of Indecent, running through June 23 (directed by Rebecca Wright) that could serve as a synecdoche for the whole show.
A co-production of Baltimore Center Stage, Arena Stage and Baltimore City Rep. Lighting designer: Christopher Akerlind It wasn’t the brothel scenes that disturbed critics, shocked audiences and dragged the show’s producer and leading man into an obscenity trial. A hit in Europe, which didn’t blink a monocle at the lesbian scenes, God of Vengeance brought out the worst in America—intolerance, long-simmering anti-Semitism against Jewish immigrants, as well as homophobia. Eventually, both God of Vengeance and its celebrated author made their way to America, with the play first receiving a Yiddish-language production in the Bowery and then an English-language version at Greenwich Village's celebrated Provincetown Playhouse, home to Eugene O'Neill's early works. Featuring: Ben Cherry, Susan Lynskey, John Milosich, Victor Raider-Wexler, Susan Rome, Emily Shackelford, Maryn Shaw, Alexander Sovronsky, Jake Walker, Max Wolowitz.
Entranced by the play, he becomes the stage manager when it is produced in Berlin, with the famed actor Rudolph Schildkraut (Tom Nelis) starring. Leah Walton is especially adept at this, in her transformation from a slinking German cabaret singer to a grande dame of the Berlin stage (“the legend is flesh and blood, I assure you”) to a wounded, reluctantly Americanizing Polish Jew named Dine (Dorothee, in her new country). As the play becomes a hit — in Berlin, in St. Petersburg, in Constantinople — the frozen tableau of a hypocritical father’s fury starts to amuse. Review: ‘Indecent’ at the Ahmanson pays haunting tribute to a daring Yiddish play Elizabeth A. Davis, right, and Adina Verson embrace as lovers in “Indecent,” a … We do not share data with third party vendors. This is an often-joyous show, and the musicians who, like the rest of the cast, never leave the stage – Jason Gresl, Rachel Massey and Sarah Statler – make it even more so. But when Asch’s drama was translated into English as “The God of Vengeance” and moved uptown from the Provincetown Playhouse to Broadway in 1922, even a worldly theater critic like Heywood Broun was made to feel “a little sick.”. Lemml fell in love with the play one night in 1906. F10834_sb_validateFields.push('F10834_sb_Name'); God of Vengeance may have been controversial, but …
Choreographer:Erika Chong Shuch. But what should have been a powerful ending here feels unfortunately anticlimactic. And it was a sensation in more ways than one, as its controversial subject matter, including the lesbian relationship and the onstage desecration of a Torah, shocked audiences. “This is what it means to be Jewish in America.”.
But for all its stylistic excesses, Indecent exerts an undeniable power, certainly more so than the scenes from Asch's work, which today seem hopelessly melodramatic. BTS to Perform at Mnet Asian Music Awards, Elsa Raven, ‘Back to the Future’ Actor, Dies at 91, Republic Records Signs 14-Year-Old Norwegian Singer Angelina Jordan (EXCLUSIVE), Gayle King Talks Wild Election Night: ‘I Slept in My Clothes and My Spanx’, Brax, Rapper and Social Media Influencer, Dies at 21, Harry Styles and Billie Eilish to Appear in New Gucci Film Series Co-Directed by Gus Van Sant, Eddie Hassell, Actor in ‘The Kids Are All Right’ and ‘Surface,’ Dies at 30 After Being Shot, Election 2020: Presidential Results by State, Warner Bros. Apologizes After ‘Witches’ Sparks Backlash From People With Disabilities, ‘Let Him Go’ Review: Diane Lane, Kevin Costner Head Up a Floridly Gripping Thriller, Former MLB All-Star Steve Finley Swings Into Bucolic Santa Barbara Ranch, Still Without Concerts, Live Nation Revenue Dropped 95% in Its Third Quarter, Louis Vuitton Just Acquired a Massive 549-Carat Rough Diamond From Botswana, Prolonged Election Coverage Holds NFL Primetime Ratings at Bay—For Now, Saddle Up: The Best Cowboy Hats for Men Who Are Feeling Lucky. Rocky Mountain National Park sees historic burn, will remain closed along with national forests, Copper Mountain, Eldora share details on their parking reservation systems for this ski season, The Lumineers' Wesley Schultz just dropped a surprise solo album with covers of Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen and more, George Floyd, gentrification murals vandalized in Denver ahead of 2020 election. Beschler (in addition to his roles as Rabbi Silverman and Officer Bailie, who arrests the actors at the former’s request) plays an American Jewish producer of God of Vengeance, Harry Weinberger. The year is 1923. The full cast of actors and two of the ensemble’s three musicians were the same. Terms of Use | But from time to time the audience can’t help but apply its own knowledge — of the ominous threat of Hitler’s gathering power in Germany, for example — to scenes in which the company calmly discusses whether to bring their successful play to the United States. He has worked for the Jewish Exponent since 2018. “You are pouring gasoline on the flames of anti-Semitism,” says Paretz (Paul Kreppel), host of the salon where “God of Vengeance” is initially read.
It is the “rain scene,” which is compared to the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet for romance and giddy innocence, as the prostitute (Susan Lynskey, radiant and assured as a world-weary presence in numerous characters) dances and canoodles in the rain with her fawnlike love, the brothel owner’s naïve daughter (Emily Shackelford, quicksilver bright in this and a variety of roles). Here’s a sure bet for the regional theater circuit — a play about a play that shocked Broadway and landed both the show’s producer and its leading man in jail. 6:00 PM PDT 5/18/2016 Kurt Hall: Stage Manager. And as Indecent knows, when Asch is played by David Ingram at the end of the show, who had hitherto played the older male characters: even the young radicals become those who wish it would stay in-house, eventually. One correction though, the cute ingenue is Max Wolkowitz, with a K! (In his turning his fellow Jews into the police for offending his sensibilities, Rabbi Silverman finally gets what he really wants: to become Mr. Smith). Review: “Indecent” at Space Theatre is an urgent, delicate look at art, love and antisemitism The Denver Center production runs through Oct. 6 … Community Briefs: Obituary, NMAJH, Genealogy and More, Children of Kristallnacht Survivors Share Their Parents’ Still-Chilling Stories, Letters to the Editor: Thanking Oma, Politics and Israel, What I Learned When I Sat Down With a Repentant White…, A Day in the Life of a COVID-19 Front-Line Worker, Quarantining With My Holocaust Survivor Grandmother, Film Festival Moves Online for 40th Anniversary, You Can Buy an 18th-Century Torah Shield Matching the Israel Museum’s…, If You Loved ‘Borat,’ You’ll Like the Sequel, Oscar Isaac in Talks to Play Jewish Superhero in ‘Moon Knight’…, Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, Simchas Continue — With Modifications, Get Jewish Exponent's Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories, PJDS Annual Gala Honors Gail and Elliot Norry, Reprisal of Simon Wiesenthal Play Streams Online, Two Digital Theater Productions Set to Debut, Philanthropist Suzanne F. Roberts Dies at 98, 40th Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival, Drive In concert benefits Leigh Leckerman Foundation.
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This ritual motif is reinforced by repeating dialogue and scenes, which take on different shadings and emotion at every reverberation.
We sent Asch’s “dirty” play and its Polish troupe back to where it came from—Europe, where the play was performed over and over, including in secret in the Lodz Ghetto. As for the playwright, a late scene finds Sholem and Madje sitting with a doctor; he’s been despondent since returning from a trip to Eastern Europe where dislocation and anti-Jewish violence were gaining force.
We appreciate your understanding. Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel has referred to herself as a pugilist. Shuchman, too, slides effortlessly between playing Rifkele, or Asch’s loving wife, Madje, and, to great comic effect, Virginia McFadden, the arch-Gentile looking to shock her parents with her Jewish associations. "Indecent" is the name Rebecca Taichman and Vogel have given the riveting backstage drama about the story behind a scandalous production. Antisemitism haunts “Indecent” from the start.
Where there is cruelty and force, there is love, even joy. Presented by Daryl Roth, Elizabeth I. McCann, Cody Lassen, Jerry Meyer, Jay Alix & Una Jackman, Elizabeth Armstrong, Julie Boardman, Four Star Productions, The John Gore Organization, Kathleen K. Johnson, Dana M. Lerner, Marc Levine, Jenn Maley, Mano-Horn Productions, in association with Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Vineyard Theatre. Each of the actors in Indecent (aside from Lemml, the stage manager, played by Doug Hara) play several roles, which requires close attention; thus, for example, the role of Rifkele in God of Vengeance is played by Michaela Shuchman, who plays several different actresses playing Rifkele at various points. One scene in particular grows in stature and meaning each time it is presented. } Indecent proves her point. She tells him she loves it, and prophetically announces that it will be performed all over the world. var F10834_sb_fieldcol='#000000';
And his portrayer, John Plumpis, is the constant, thumping heart of “Indecent.”. After a short prologue in which he introduces the company, the story begins in 1906 Warsaw, where 23-year-old Asch is nervously waiting for his wife's reaction to his first play. It’s the story of all times, cycles of stifled young people rebelling against their stodgy elders, only to become them one day.
by This element of the show first allows for through-lines to be drawn from character to character – Maseda plays both Asch and a would-be Asch named Jonathan Rosen, who approaches the aged Asch many years after God of Vengeance was first staged (more on that later). And, no, this is no small matter. How can we translate for others when we’re not even sure that we understand ourselves? Below is a lightly edited version of Marilyn Stasio’s original review of the Off Broadway production. There is a scene in The Arden Theatre Co.‘s production of Indecent, running through June 23 (directed by Rebecca Wright) that could serve as a synecdoche for the whole show.
A co-production of Baltimore Center Stage, Arena Stage and Baltimore City Rep. Lighting designer: Christopher Akerlind It wasn’t the brothel scenes that disturbed critics, shocked audiences and dragged the show’s producer and leading man into an obscenity trial. A hit in Europe, which didn’t blink a monocle at the lesbian scenes, God of Vengeance brought out the worst in America—intolerance, long-simmering anti-Semitism against Jewish immigrants, as well as homophobia. Eventually, both God of Vengeance and its celebrated author made their way to America, with the play first receiving a Yiddish-language production in the Bowery and then an English-language version at Greenwich Village's celebrated Provincetown Playhouse, home to Eugene O'Neill's early works. Featuring: Ben Cherry, Susan Lynskey, John Milosich, Victor Raider-Wexler, Susan Rome, Emily Shackelford, Maryn Shaw, Alexander Sovronsky, Jake Walker, Max Wolowitz.
Entranced by the play, he becomes the stage manager when it is produced in Berlin, with the famed actor Rudolph Schildkraut (Tom Nelis) starring. Leah Walton is especially adept at this, in her transformation from a slinking German cabaret singer to a grande dame of the Berlin stage (“the legend is flesh and blood, I assure you”) to a wounded, reluctantly Americanizing Polish Jew named Dine (Dorothee, in her new country). As the play becomes a hit — in Berlin, in St. Petersburg, in Constantinople — the frozen tableau of a hypocritical father’s fury starts to amuse. Review: ‘Indecent’ at the Ahmanson pays haunting tribute to a daring Yiddish play Elizabeth A. Davis, right, and Adina Verson embrace as lovers in “Indecent,” a … We do not share data with third party vendors. This is an often-joyous show, and the musicians who, like the rest of the cast, never leave the stage – Jason Gresl, Rachel Massey and Sarah Statler – make it even more so. But when Asch’s drama was translated into English as “The God of Vengeance” and moved uptown from the Provincetown Playhouse to Broadway in 1922, even a worldly theater critic like Heywood Broun was made to feel “a little sick.”. Lemml fell in love with the play one night in 1906. F10834_sb_validateFields.push('F10834_sb_Name'); God of Vengeance may have been controversial, but …
Choreographer:Erika Chong Shuch. But what should have been a powerful ending here feels unfortunately anticlimactic. And it was a sensation in more ways than one, as its controversial subject matter, including the lesbian relationship and the onstage desecration of a Torah, shocked audiences. “This is what it means to be Jewish in America.”.
But for all its stylistic excesses, Indecent exerts an undeniable power, certainly more so than the scenes from Asch's work, which today seem hopelessly melodramatic. BTS to Perform at Mnet Asian Music Awards, Elsa Raven, ‘Back to the Future’ Actor, Dies at 91, Republic Records Signs 14-Year-Old Norwegian Singer Angelina Jordan (EXCLUSIVE), Gayle King Talks Wild Election Night: ‘I Slept in My Clothes and My Spanx’, Brax, Rapper and Social Media Influencer, Dies at 21, Harry Styles and Billie Eilish to Appear in New Gucci Film Series Co-Directed by Gus Van Sant, Eddie Hassell, Actor in ‘The Kids Are All Right’ and ‘Surface,’ Dies at 30 After Being Shot, Election 2020: Presidential Results by State, Warner Bros. Apologizes After ‘Witches’ Sparks Backlash From People With Disabilities, ‘Let Him Go’ Review: Diane Lane, Kevin Costner Head Up a Floridly Gripping Thriller, Former MLB All-Star Steve Finley Swings Into Bucolic Santa Barbara Ranch, Still Without Concerts, Live Nation Revenue Dropped 95% in Its Third Quarter, Louis Vuitton Just Acquired a Massive 549-Carat Rough Diamond From Botswana, Prolonged Election Coverage Holds NFL Primetime Ratings at Bay—For Now, Saddle Up: The Best Cowboy Hats for Men Who Are Feeling Lucky. Rocky Mountain National Park sees historic burn, will remain closed along with national forests, Copper Mountain, Eldora share details on their parking reservation systems for this ski season, The Lumineers' Wesley Schultz just dropped a surprise solo album with covers of Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen and more, George Floyd, gentrification murals vandalized in Denver ahead of 2020 election. Beschler (in addition to his roles as Rabbi Silverman and Officer Bailie, who arrests the actors at the former’s request) plays an American Jewish producer of God of Vengeance, Harry Weinberger. The year is 1923. The full cast of actors and two of the ensemble’s three musicians were the same. Terms of Use | But from time to time the audience can’t help but apply its own knowledge — of the ominous threat of Hitler’s gathering power in Germany, for example — to scenes in which the company calmly discusses whether to bring their successful play to the United States. He has worked for the Jewish Exponent since 2018. “You are pouring gasoline on the flames of anti-Semitism,” says Paretz (Paul Kreppel), host of the salon where “God of Vengeance” is initially read.
It is the “rain scene,” which is compared to the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet for romance and giddy innocence, as the prostitute (Susan Lynskey, radiant and assured as a world-weary presence in numerous characters) dances and canoodles in the rain with her fawnlike love, the brothel owner’s naïve daughter (Emily Shackelford, quicksilver bright in this and a variety of roles). Here’s a sure bet for the regional theater circuit — a play about a play that shocked Broadway and landed both the show’s producer and its leading man in jail. 6:00 PM PDT 5/18/2016 Kurt Hall: Stage Manager. And as Indecent knows, when Asch is played by David Ingram at the end of the show, who had hitherto played the older male characters: even the young radicals become those who wish it would stay in-house, eventually. One correction though, the cute ingenue is Max Wolkowitz, with a K! (In his turning his fellow Jews into the police for offending his sensibilities, Rabbi Silverman finally gets what he really wants: to become Mr. Smith). Review: “Indecent” at Space Theatre is an urgent, delicate look at art, love and antisemitism The Denver Center production runs through Oct. 6 … Community Briefs: Obituary, NMAJH, Genealogy and More, Children of Kristallnacht Survivors Share Their Parents’ Still-Chilling Stories, Letters to the Editor: Thanking Oma, Politics and Israel, What I Learned When I Sat Down With a Repentant White…, A Day in the Life of a COVID-19 Front-Line Worker, Quarantining With My Holocaust Survivor Grandmother, Film Festival Moves Online for 40th Anniversary, You Can Buy an 18th-Century Torah Shield Matching the Israel Museum’s…, If You Loved ‘Borat,’ You’ll Like the Sequel, Oscar Isaac in Talks to Play Jewish Superhero in ‘Moon Knight’…, Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, Simchas Continue — With Modifications, Get Jewish Exponent's Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories, PJDS Annual Gala Honors Gail and Elliot Norry, Reprisal of Simon Wiesenthal Play Streams Online, Two Digital Theater Productions Set to Debut, Philanthropist Suzanne F. Roberts Dies at 98, 40th Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival, Drive In concert benefits Leigh Leckerman Foundation.
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