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Transgression
First Preview: Jul 10, 2025
Opening Date: Jul 18, 2025
Closing Date: Aug 2, 2025
Running Time: 02:00
Playing @
HERE
145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013
What do you do with your heart when an artist you love does something terrible?
After her husband dies in 2011, a great photographer’s widow goes through his studio in preparation for a major bequest/retrospective of his work. While doing so, she comes across a portfolio she has never seen—containing what she and the museum know reveals an emotional intensity absent from all his other work. These photos, taken in 1970, also happen to be nudes of an underaged woman that are very sexual. When the subject, now grown, becomes aware of them, she demands that they be destroyed. Forced to wrestle with the question of what you do with art that is both important and itself a violation, the widow must reconsider her life and marriage.
After her husband dies in 2011, a great photographer’s widow goes through his studio in preparation for a major bequest/retrospective of his work. While doing so, she comes across a portfolio she has never seen—containing what she and the museum know reveals an emotional intensity absent from all his other work. These photos, taken in 1970, also happen to be nudes of an underaged woman that are very sexual. When the subject, now grown, becomes aware of them, she demands that they be destroyed. Forced to wrestle with the question of what you do with art that is both important and itself a violation, the widow must reconsider her life and marriage.
Show Notes: No intermission
Audience Advisory: Contains themes of sexual exploitation, trauma and the moral complexities of art-making. Viewer discretion is advised. ?
Performance Schedule
THURSDAY-SATURDAY @ 8:30 PM
SUNDAY @ 4 PM
Written By
- Terry Curtis Fox
Director
- Avra Fox-Lerner
TDF Tickets Offers:
TDF Member tickets:
Not currently available for this show
Listed at 
Never
Full-price tickets:
$30.50 - $107.25
Accessibility
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Wheelchair Info
Removable seating. -
Seating
Mainstage seats 99 / Dorothy B. Williams Theatre Seats 74. -
Elevator\Escalator
There is an elevator that takes you to the lower level thatre. -
Curb Ramps
Yes -
Entrance
Houses two performance spaces - the 99-seat Mainstage and the 74-seat Dorothy B. Williams Theatre (down one flight of stairs); art galleries, and a café. The building entrance is street level -
Restroom
Located on both levels -
Water Fountain
There is a cafe -
Telephone
None -
Assisted Listening System
Some hearing aids. -
Visual Assistance
None -
Folding Armrests
None








