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August 6, 2024

An English Play about the Destructive Avarice of Jewish Usury Returns to the London Stage

No, not that one.

In September, The Lehman Trilogy, an Italian play that had its English-language debut in Britain in 2018 to much acclaim, is reopening. The drama is a fictionalized telling of the story of the Lehman family, beginning with their arrival in the U.S. from Germany in the 19th century and culminating in the collapse during the 2008 financial crisis of the bank they founded. Dave Rich comments:

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