The 7th Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards will honor Harvey Fierstein, Paula Vogel and Israel Horovitz as Legends of Off Broadway, alongside Athol Fugard, Charlotte Moore, and Estelle Parsons. The honorees were announced last Wednesday, along with the nominees for the Awards. Fierstein, Vogel and Horovitz — all playwrights, although Fierstein is also an actor…
Playwright Paula Vogel will receive an Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 62nd Annual Obie Awards. Vogel, who recently made her Broadway debut with “Indecent,” has previously won two Obie Awards. She won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in drama for “How I Learned to Drive,” was awarded the PEN/Laura Pels Award in 1999, has…
Sholem Asch would be proud. Today, when the Outer Critics Circle announced the nominees for its 2017 awards, Paula Vogel’s and Rebecca Taichman’s “Indecent,” an homage to Asch’s “God of Vengeance,” racked up six nominations, making it the most-nominated play for this year’s awards. While “Indecent” was the most-nominated play, the production to gain the…
On a Manhattan Monday, in an airy rehearsal studio far enough west of Times Square to make a grumbling city-dweller breathe with freedom, a group of journalists greeted each other forlornly. “There’s no food,” one photographer grumbled to another, affixing various implements to his camera. To his left, a journalist clutching a notepad and elderly…
Bringing Sholem Asch to Broadway 90 Years On In May, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel spoke with the Forward about her new play, “Indecent,” which had just opened at Manhattan’s Vineyard Theater. “I’m interested in trying to rediscover the innocence we had as a people before the entire paradigm changed,” she said. With “Indecent,”…
Fans of Paula Vogel, Yiddish Theater, and equality in the arts rejoice: Vogel’s play “Indecent,” which made its New York debut off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theater last April, will be hitting Broadway this coming spring. On Wednesday, producers Daryl Roth, Elizabeth Ireland McCann and Cody Lassen announced that, starting in April 2017, “Indecent,” which Vogel…
The opening of “Indecent,” a new play by Paula Vogel co-created with director Rebecca Taichman, is reminiscent of the scene in “Inception” in which Leonardo DiCaprio takes Ellen Page through the basics of dream architecture. He escorts her through an initially recognizable world that begins inverting and contorting itself, resulting in a dreamscape created less…
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