Financial Catastrophe Makes For Riveting Theater In 'The Lehman Trilogy'
The new play, about the rise and fall of Lehman Brothers, digs deep into the company's history — beginning with the original brothers, Bavarian immigrants who opened a store in Alabama in the 1840s.
The Lehman Trilogy, which opened at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City on March 27, has been produced in France, Germany and Italy. An Italian, Stefano Massini, wrote it; the Englishman Sam Mendes directed it.
And yet the story is quintessentially American. Three Orthodox Jews from Bavaria arrive in New York in the mid-19th century; eventually two of them settle in the
