THE LEHMAN TRILOGY
For our LA-based readers, THE LEHMAN TRILOGY is now being staged downtown at the Ahmanson Theater, and I highly recommend finding the time to see it. Simon Russell Beale and Adam Godley, who have been with the play since its English-language debut in London, are now joined by Howard W. Overshown as the third lead, and all three put on remarkably propulsive performances. A history of the financial firm, Lehman Brothers, from its founding in the 1840s through its 2008 collapse, the play excels at dramatizing the development of the U.S. financial system and showing how the personalities of the people at the helm of Lehman directly shaped that system. Plus, think of how impressed people will be when they learn that you went to the theater AND learned about commodities trading all in one night.
—Nolan Russell, Executive Assistant
