Theater
The Cort Theater located on 48th St in Manhattan.The theater first opened in 1912 and is modeled after the Petit Trianon, en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/estate/estate-trianon/pe...a small chateau in the Palace of Versailles in Versailles,France.There are 1082 seats inside.The Cort Theater is one of the few Lamb (Thomas W. Lamb,architect) theaters still extant and functioning as a legitimate theater.In order for an old NYC theater to receive landmark status it must continue to function as one,and not anything else.
There is a play currently playing at the Cort Theater called Indecent by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel.The play's storyline comes from a book by dramatist Sholem Asch called God of Vengeance (1907).The drama is about a Jewish couple who run a brothel in the basement of their house.The couple's married daughter,Yekel,has a love affair with the their prized prostitute in one of the scenes.A Torah is also hurled across the stage in the play (OMG!).
When the Asch drama was translated from Yiddish into English,it was made into a play which opened at the Apollo Theater (then on 42nd St) in Manhattan in 1923.The play caused quite a firestorm with arbiters of the Jewish community and NYC authorities.It was shut down after six weeks of production with the cast,producer,and one of the owners of the theater facing charges of obscenity and arrested.
Theater
The Cort Theater located on 48th St in Manhattan.The theater first opened in 1912 and is modeled after the Petit Trianon, en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/estate/estate-trianon/pe...a small chateau in the Palace of Versailles in Versailles,France.There are 1082 seats inside.The Cort Theater is one of the few Lamb (Thomas W. Lamb,architect) theaters still extant and functioning as a legitimate theater.In order for an old NYC theater to receive landmark status it must continue to function as one,and not anything else.
There is a play currently playing at the Cort Theater called Indecent by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel.The play's storyline comes from a book by dramatist Sholem Asch called God of Vengeance (1907).The drama is about a Jewish couple who run a brothel in the basement of their house.The couple's married daughter,Yekel,has a love affair with the their prized prostitute in one of the scenes.A Torah is also hurled across the stage in the play (OMG!).
When the Asch drama was translated from Yiddish into English,it was made into a play which opened at the Apollo Theater (then on 42nd St) in Manhattan in 1923.The play caused quite a firestorm with arbiters of the Jewish community and NYC authorities.It was shut down after six weeks of production with the cast,producer,and one of the owners of the theater facing charges of obscenity and arrested.