The Lehman Trilogy
Ages: 14+
Opened: September 24, 2024Closing: January 05, 2025
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THE TONY AWARD®-WINNING BEST PLAY RETURNS TO LONDON
The landmark National Theatre and Neal Street production of The Lehman Trilogy, directed by Academy Award®, Tony Award®, and Golden Globe winner Sam Mendes, returns to the Gillian Lynne Theatre for a strictly limited encore season this autumn. Hailed by The New York Times as 'a genuinely epic production', The Lehman Trilogy is a sweeping story of a family spanning generations and a company that changed the world.
John Heffernan, Aaron Krohn and Howard W. Overshown bring their ‘virtuosic performances’(The Mercury News) to London, following a critically acclaimed run in San Francisco, playing the Lehman brothers, their sons and grandsons in this thrilling ‘tour de force of acting talent.’(KQED Radio)
On a cold September morning in 1844, a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers, and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish - Lehman Brothers - spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, triggering the largest financial crisis in history.
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Captioned: Monday 28th October 7pm and Saturday 7th December 1pm.
Audio described: Saturday 30th November 1pm and Friday 3rd January 7pm.
BSL: Saturday 16th November 1pm.
The Lehman Trilogy - West End Cast
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You won’t see better acting all year
10 / 10
Heffernan brings a robust delicacy to characters including the second-generation prodigy Philip, who leads the firm’s 20th-century innovations with manipulating money. Krohn is imposingly straitlaced or beguilingly clownish. Overshown is sonorous, bearish or impish as needed. “No one solos and everyone solos,” as the jazz band Weather Report once said of themselves. They each make you think that it is a doddle dishing out thousands of words on a revolving glass and steel platform (designed by Es Devlin) in front of a vast monochrome cyclorama that evokes Manhattan through the decades (videos by Luke Halls).
The magic of Es Devlin's rotating Wall Street office and Sam Mendes's epic directorial vision truly come alive
8 / 10
As a more intimate theatrical space, Gillian Lynne theatre fully waves the magic of Es Devlin’s rotating Wall Street office and Sam Mendes’s epic directorial hands: Philip’s (Heffernan) wisdom and “strategy” presented through the three-card monte, Bobbie’s (Krohn) epic dance into his grave, and the contrasting scene where Overshown plays several bankers’ suicides when Bobbie was courting the once-divorced Ruth. Cat Beveridge’s piano triumphs not simply as the soundscape, but as a symbol of New York as the magical music box, easily stirring your emotion.
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Review Roundup: Did THE LEHMAN TRILOGY Dazzle the West End Again?
by Aliya Al-Hassan - October 10, 2024
by Aliya Al-Hassan - October 10, 2024
The landmark National Theatre and Neal Street production of The Lehman Trilogy, directed by Academy Award, Tony Award, and Golden Globe winner Sam Mendes, has returned to the Gillian Lynne Theatre for a strictly limited encore season this autumn. Hailed by The New York Times as 'a genuinely epic production', The Lehman Trilogy is a sweeping story of a family spanning generations and a company that changed the world.
Review: THE LEHMAN TRILOGY, Gillian Lynne Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - October 10, 2024
by Aliya Al-Hassan - October 10, 2024
One of my biggest bugbears in theatre is a production that remains on stage well past its welcome. Overlong and flabby shows do neither the audience nor the show itself any favours. It is therefore a huge endorsement for me to state that a production of nearly three and a half hours really is worth every second of your time.
Photos: THE LEHMAN TRILOGY Returns to London at the Gillian Lynne Theatre
by Stephi Wild - October 1, 2024
by Stephi Wild - October 1, 2024
The National Theatre and Neal Street Productions’ critically acclaimed, five-time Tony Award® winning production of The Lehman Trilogy has returned to London. Check out all new photos here!
Cast Set For the West End Return of THE LEHMAN TRILOGY
by Stephi Wild - September 9, 2024
by Stephi Wild - September 9, 2024
Full casting has been announced for the five-time Tony Award winning production of The Lehman Trilogy which returns to London's West End following highly acclaimed international performances.
The Lehman Trilogy History
Other Productions of The Lehman Trilogy
| 2018 | West End |
Original West End Production West End |
| 2019 | Off-Broadway |
Park Avenue Armory North American Premiere Off-Broadway |
| 2021 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 2023 | West End |
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