‘Lehman Trilogy’ review: Broadway turns a big bank into big drama
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nypost.comI found Ben Power’s play pretty dull at the UK’s National Theatre in 2018, and was bored out of my mind for most of its flight-to-the-Bahamas runtime.
But back then it was performed in a cavernous space that swallowed it whole. Deadly. Broadway’s relative intimacy gives the drama a much needed jolt of life and includes the audience more.
Although, with two 15-minute intermissions, it’s still too long, you’re swept away by director Sam Mendes’ grand storytelling.Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Adrian Lester — a killer trio — play a stack of Lehmans over three acts as the company morphs from a tiny Alabama shop in 1847 to the powerful New York investment bank that collapsed in 2008.
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