The day I saw the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s extraordinary production of The Lehman Trilogy, the stock market plummeted nearly 750 points. The rags-to-riches-to-bankruptcy history of three ambitious Jewish immigrant brothers looked like it was threatening to repeat itself. Still, as we fasten our seatbelts in preparation for what might be another sustained economic crisis, we … [Read more...]

Where were you in 2008? Do you remember those rocky days when the stock market imploded, led by the collapse of the powerful Lehman Brothers investment firm? As painful as that might have been for you, it is a story worth hearing again, as told in the epic Tony Award-winning play, The Lehman Trilogy. It traces the emigration of a trio of German brothers — Henry, Emanuel and … [Read more...]