The Lehman Trilogy at the Gillian Lynne Theatre
by Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power
a co-production with Neal Street Productions
Booking and details
Please note: Latecomers cannot be admitted until the first interval and there is no re-admittance.
All ticket requests for performances of The Lehman Trilogy are managed by LW Theatres.
Ticket prices include a £1.70 LW Theatres Restoration Levy
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.
Reviews
‘A masterwork and a must-see.’
The Telegraph
★★★★★
‘A mesmerising epic.’
The Times
‘A genuinely epic production. Behold it with wonder.’
The New York Times
‘A must-see event. Epic in every conceivable way. You dare not miss it.’
New York Post
‘A masterpiece. It surpasses all praise.’
Wall St. Journal
‘Epic for every minute. Extraordinary.’
San Francisco Chronicle
‘A 21st century masterwork’
Sydney Morning Herald
‘Theatrical storytelling at its most thrilling’
Hollywood Reporter
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Suitability
This production features flashing lights and some video effects that may cause dizziness. There will be instances of total darkness (lasting 15 seconds) and gunshot sound effects.
The production contains moments and themes that some people may find distressing. This includes the non-graphic depiction of a suicide and mentions of suicide. There is also infrequent mention of death, war and slavery. For further information please contact the Box Office.
Preferred Payment Partner of the National Theatre 
Cast
Cat Beveridge
Cat Beveridge trained as a repetiteur with the Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, with English National Opera, as an Associate Artist with Welsh National Opera and at the Royal College of Music and Royal Northern College of Music.
John Heffernan
For the National Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing, Saint George and the Dragon, Edward II and She Stoops to Conquer
Aaron Krohn
Aaron Krohn has an MFA from The Old Globe.
Anyssa Neumann
Anyssa Neuman studied at the Manhattan School of Music, University of Oxford, Université de Montréal and King’s College London.
Howard W. Overshown
Howard W. Overshown was a 2018 Ten Chimneys Fellow.
Full cast to be announced
Production team
Author
Stefano Massini
Stefano Massini
Adaptor
Ben Power
Ben Power
For the National Theatre: London Tide, The Lehman Trilogy (also West End, Broadway and international tour), Husbands and Sons, Medea and Emperor and Galilean
Director
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes founded and ran the Donmar Warehouse in London for ten years.
Set Designer
Es Devlin
Es Devlin
Costume Designer
Katrina Lindsay
Katrina Lindsay
Katrina Lindsay is an associate of the National Theatre and a member of the theatre design collective Scene/Change.
Video Designer
Luke Halls
Luke Halls
Luke Halls has been producing video design and animation for over a decade, he specialises in theatre, music and dance.
Lighting Designer
Jon Clark
Jon Clark
Jon Clark is a Tony and Olivier award-winning lighting designer. He has designed extensively in the West End, on Broadway, for the National Theatre, Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company and with many other companies in the UK and internationally.
Composer and Sound Designer
Nick Powell
Nick Powell
Nick Powell is half of OSKAR, who have released two albums and produced installations for the V&A and CCA, as well as written live soundtracks for Prada in Milan.
Co-Sound Designer
Dominic Bilkey
Dominic Bilkey
Dominic Bilkey trained in technical theatre at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff.
Music Director
Candida Caldicot
Candida Caldicot
Candida Caldicot trained at Cambridge University.
Movement Director
Polly Bennett
Polly Bennett
Polly Bennett trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and the National Youth Theatre.
Casting
Naomi Downham
Naomi Downham
For the National Theatre, as casting director: The Grapes of Wrath, Underdog: The Other Other Brontë (also Northern Stage), The House of Bernarda Alba, The Crucible (also West End), The Ocean at the End of the Lane (UK tour), Hamlet (school tour) and Jekyll & Hyde (school tour)
Casting
Bryony Jarvis-Taylor
Bryony Jarvis-Taylor
West End Director
Rory McGregor
Rory McGregor
Associate Video Designer
Zakk Hein
Zakk Hein
Associate Lighting Designer
Charlotte Burton
Charlotte Burton
For the National Theatre: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë (also Northern Stage)
Dialect Coach
Charmian Hoare
Charmian Hoare
Recent National Theatre includes: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë (also with Northern Stage), Till the Stars Come Down, The Motive and the Cue, The Lehman Trilogy (also West End), Jack Absolute Flies Again, Our Generation (also at Chichester)
The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008 by Peter Chapman is a leading reference on the history of the Lehman family.
Tickets
Groups
For Groups 10+ contact LW Groups at: groups@gillianlynnetheatre.co.uk
Groups rate 10+
£50
Cap: 100 tickets per performance (Rear Stalls)
Valid Mon – Thurs Performances
Exclusions: weeks commencing 28 October, 23 December, 30 December
Education rate 10+
£25
Cap: 100 tickets per performance (Rear Circle)
Valid Mon – Thurs Performances
Exclusions: weeks commencing 28 October, 23 December, 30 December
Access
Assisted performances
Captioned performances – 28 October at 7pm and 7 December at 1pm
BSL Interpreted performance – 16 November at 1pm
Audio-Described performances – 30 November at 1pm and 3 January at 7pm
Access booking
Access tickets are bookable via LW theatres only.
Please call the the Gillian Lynne Theatre Access booking line on 020 3925 2998 from 10am to 5:30pm Monday to Saturday.
Or email access@lwtheatres.co.uk and a member of their Box Office will get back to you as soon as possible.
Customers with Access requirements will be able to purchase a ticket in the price band of their choice, subject to availability.
One additional companion ticket will be made available at the same price paid by the customer with Access requirements, subject to availability. Any additional tickets required in the suitable area will be chargeable at the standard admission rate.
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