Quiet City

About the show

A lonely Jewish man chooses to denounce his religious and artistic convictions. He changes his name, his job, and his religion, and marries a wealthy woman. However, he is troubled by the memory of his brother playing the trumpet. According to playwright Irwin Shaw, the theme of the play was meant to explore "the troubled conscience of the middle class that cannot quite reconcile itself to its life in a distraught world."