and the entire civilized world shut down in response to COVID. It’s sheer joy to have the show back in all its stately, tragic glory.
Lean and lethally witty Adam Godley plays middle son Mayer, the perfect counterpoint to Beale’s paunchy patriarch. Although Mayer plainly identifies as an intellectual of the Old World, he’s more recognizably American for being neurotic as hell. As the last brother, Emanuel, Adrian Lester embodies both the strength and the recklessness of the eternally youthful.
Lehman trilogy is one of the best plays I ever seen. And I am a Broadway buff! Amazing!