Headlined by APT Core Company Member James Ridge as Lemml the Stage Manager, four-decade member of Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s former Resident Acting Company James Pickering, and MCT stalwart Angela Iannone (MEDEA, MASTER CLASS, WELL, among many others), the cast also includes rising star Wisconsin artists Elyse Edelman (Milwaukee Rep, APT, Forward Theatre, Renaissance Theatreworks, Door Shakespeare), Josh Krause (APT, Forward Theatre, Next Act, Renaissance Theatreworks), and Rachael Zientek (Skylight Music Theatre, Forward Theatre, Renaissance Theatreworks), and Wisconsin native Eric Damon Smith in his MCT debut. INDECENT features an all-star cast of some of Wisconsin’s most well-loved and accomplished theater makers. Following Asch’s play through the first five decades of the Twentieth Century, Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel’s celebration of love and art, featuring an onstage klezmer band, honors those who brought THE GOD OF VENGEANCE to the stage-and who paid for it, in some cases, with their lives.

Hailed on the continent for its rebuttal of religious hypocrisy and its honest, joyous depiction of a same-sex relationship, the play was shut down upon its Broadway debut. A sensation from its 1906 premiere, became the first play to be translated from Yiddish and professionally staged across Europe. For more, please visit Vogel’s play, INDECENT, is inspired by Sholem Asch’s THE GOD OF VENGEANCE. Her plays are published in six volumes by TCG Press and she teaches playwriting workshops throughout the United States and abroad. She is honored to have three awards dedicated to emerging playwrights in her name: the American College Theater Festival, the Paula Vogel Award given annually by the Vineyard Theatre, and the recent Paula Vogel mentor’s award by Young Playwrights of Philadelphia. Most recent awards include the American Theater Hall of Fame Award, the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, the Lillys, the Thornton Wilder Prize, the OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the NY Drama Critics’ Circle Award. Other plays include THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME, THE MINEOLA TWINS, THE BALTIMORE WALTZ, HOT 'N' THROBBING, DESDEMONA, AND BABY MAKES SEVEN, THE OLDEST PROFESSION, A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS, and DON JUAN COMES HOME FROM IRAQ. HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE received the Pulitzer Prize, Lortel Prize, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and New York Drama Critics awards for Best Play, and her second OBIE Award. INDECENT opened on Broadway in April 2017 and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play.

Paula Vogel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose plays are produced throughout the world.

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