VOICES IN CONVERSATION

Actor JESSICA LANGE and playwright PAULA VOGEL on their new BROADWAY PRODUCTION, MOTHER PLAY, creating and portraying COMPLICATED WOMEN, and the FUTURE of THEATER

TEXT BY ARIANA MARSH

For more than four decades, playwright and theater educator Paula Vogel has been challenging audiences to confront issues and impulses we often shy away from. Vogel’s Obie Award–winning 1992 tragicomic play, The Baltimore Waltz, was a meditation on the AIDS crisis at a time when the disease—and the fear, stigmatization, and misinformation that surrounded it—was wreaking devastation. Her 1994 one-act play, Hot ’N’ Throbbing, explored the relationship between pornography and domestic violence, while 1997’s How I Learned to Drive dealt with sexual abuse and misogyny and earned her a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Vogel made her Broadway debut in 2017 with Indecent, which mused on queer love, antisemitism, and censorship. This month marks her return with the world premiere of Mother Play, produced by Second Stage Theater and directed by Tina…

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