Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel is set to make her Broadway debut, The New York Times reports. “Indecent,” Vogel’s newest play, will be staged on Broadway next spring. Rebecca Taichman (“The Oldest Boy,” “Stage Kiss”) will direct the production, set to open in April at an unspecified Shubert theater. Both Taichman and Vogel are being credited as having “created” “Indecent,” though Vogel is recognized as the sole playwright. “Indecent” also marks Taichman’s Broadway debut. According to producers, “Indecent” is the “first new play by a woman to be announced as part of the current Broadway season.”
“The play with music explores the controversy surrounding the 1923 Broadway play ‘God of Vengeance,’ which was shut down after the police charged the cast members with obscenity, in part because it depicted a lesbian relationship,” the Times reports.
“Indecent” had an Off-Broadway run at the Vineyard Theater this year, and previous productions were staged at Yale Repertory Theater and the La Jolla Playhouse.
The Broadway production, set to open April 18 with previews in early April, will be produced by Daryl Roth, Elizabeth Ireland McCann, and Cody Lassen.
Vogel, whose career as a playwright spans four decades, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for “How I Learned to Drive,” her play centered around a woman grappling with her sexually abusive relationship with her uncle.
According to Forward, Vogel “will be one of only a few women playwrights making appearances during this Broadway season; others include Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Sara Wordsworth, who co-wrote ‘In Transit’ with James Allen-Ford and Russ Kaplan, Irene Sankoff, who co-wrote ‘Come From Away’ with David Hein, and Lillian Hellman, whose ‘The Little Foxes’ opens in April.”
