Will Paula Vogel's INDECENT Be First Play by a Woman on Broadway This Season?

More works by women on Broadway? Yes, please!

The New York Times reports that Tony-winning producers Daryl Roth and Elizabeth McCann want to bring Pulitzer winner Paula Vogel's INDECENT to the Great White Way. This would be the playwright's first work on Broadway, and the first of this season's plays written by a woman.

"We loved the play so much and feel compelled to make it happen so more people can see it," Roth told the Times. "I don't know that it is a commercially successful offering, but I wish that it could be."

Roth and McCann will join forces with Cody Lassen (who produced SPRING AWAKENING) to stage the play this season, at a cost of $3.2 million.

INDECENT played Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theater earlier this year. It was a finalist for this year's 2016 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama.

Vineyard's official description of the play reads: "INDECENT is a deeply moving new play with music, inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch's GOD OF VENGEANCE - a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture, and by others as an act of traitorous libel. Indecent charts the history of an incendiary drama and the path of the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it."

Paula Vogel won the 1998 Pulitzer for Drama for her Off-Broadway play HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE. Among her other notable works are DESDEMONA, A PLAY ABOUT A HANDKERCHIEF, THE OLDEST PROFESSION, A BABY MAKES SEVEN, HOT 'N THROBBING and THE MINEOLA TWINS.

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