A Broadway play about a play banned from Broadway
Spencer Chandler, Miriam Schwartz and Lisa Gutkin rehearse the opening scene of the Guthrie Theater's adaptation of "Indecent" on Feb. 13, 2018.
Evan Frost | MPR News
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An almost century-old theatrical scandal is the basis of a new play beginning a run at the Guthrie in Minneapolis this weekend.
"Indecent," by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, tells the true story of a 1920s Yiddish play, written in Poland just after the turn of the 20th century, that went to Broadway and was shut down as obscene.