'Indecent' is a moving reminder of art's power to expose truths

When the Polish Jewish writer Sholem Asch wrote "The God of Vengeance" in 1906, Broadway wasn't, it's safe to say, at the forefront of his mind.

The play, written in Yiddish, revolves around a crisis in a family that's no ordinary family: A brothel owner wants his daughter to marry a respectable...