The Lehman Trilogy at Sidney Harman Hall

The Lehman Trilogy

Sidney Harman Hall
610 F Street NW Washington

Meet the Lehman brothers-immigrants building an American dream that crumbles into a chaotic nightmare for future generations. With a cast of three actors covering 160 years of family struggles, achievements, and missteps, this winner of the 2022 Tony Award for Best Play is a powerhouse cautionary narrative for our times. A captivating feat of storytelling, The Lehman Trilogy examines the double-edged sword of capitalism and personal choices that created the largest financial crisis in U.S. history so far.

Thru - Mar 30, 2024

Show Type: Drama

Running Time: 3hrs, 35mins; two intermissions

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Washington Post - Somewhat Recommended

"...This particular staging, by Arin Arbus — less austere than the glass-and-metal box of the Broadway version — may deploy painterly projections and wittily placed props, but “The Lehman Trilogy” commits to oral description, to language itself. “A temple of words!” thunders one of the brothers. It’s an audacious investment, one after my own heart. But we know the fine print: Returns are not guaranteed."

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- Sophia Nguyen

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...DC has seen some great theater about the perils of overweening wealth — Lucy Prebble’s play Enron, about the financial collapse the firm precipitated; Akad Akhtar’s play Junk, a primer on the speciousness of debt financing — but The Lehman Trilogy now playing in the Harman may be the most epic depiction of avarice yet. Packed into its three spellbinding hours is so much financial edutainment — and such engrossing drama about men, money, and America — that the time flies by and the mind wants more."

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- John Stoltenberg

Talkin Broadway - Highly Recommended

"...To describe something as an intimate epic sounds ridiculous, but that is the only way to define The Lehman Trilogy, the powerhouse drama now on the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Harman Hall stage."

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- Susan Berlin

Washington City Paper - Highly Recommended

"...Forget The Big Short. And Margin Call. And Too Big to Fail, Inside Job, and (even as it prepares for its musicalized coronation in Boston this summer) The Queen of Versailles. Despite spending less than five minutes on the 2008 financial crisis, in which its titular firm was vanquished in a legendary collapse, The Lehman Trilogy assuredly claims its place as the definitive retrospective on the run-up to that particular financial meltdown."

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- D.R. Lewis

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

"...The sheer staying power of three actors playing countless characters over the course of three and a half hours is perhaps the most astounding part of Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of "The Lehman Trilogy." In some ways, it's a bit like witnessing a theatrical circus with attractions including the incredible unraveling of long-held familial relationships, the tightrope walk (both literal and metaphoric) of a Jewish immigrant trying to assimilate to "New York City" ways, or the rapid ascension of a family as they cling to their life raft of greed while prospecting for that "next big thing.""

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- Anne Valentino

BroadwayWorld - Highly Recommended

"...The Lehman Trilogy, directed by Arin Arbus at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, is an extraordinary feat of storytelling. It is simultaneously epic and spare. With just three actors it unfolds the captivating and intimate story of one immigrant family that evolves its company, navigates pious lives, innovates new ways of doing business, and ultimately unravels over time into instability and a crushing financial crisis."

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- Pamela Roberts

The Lehman Trilogy at Sidney Harman Hall