Florentine, Stefano Massini, wins Tony Award For Best Play
At the Radio City Music Hall in New York, NY, USA – the Italian writer, Stefano Massini, wins the title of best play at the 75th Annual Tony Awards for his show, The Lehman Trilogy.
Born in Florence, Stefano Massinin is a playwright and renowned novelist who began his theatrical career at the Maggio Musciale Fiorentino and the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. His degree in Ancient Literature set the stage for his journey in stage writing, which eventually led his to his celebrated production on Broadway, The Lehman Trilogy.
Praised by The New York Times as “a genuinely epic production,” this theatrical events follows a story of three brothers in their arrival into America with the hopes of a new life, therefore, creating a financial institution known as the Lehman Brothers, until a dramatic collapse consequently causes the largest financial crisis in history.
Directed by Tony winner, Sam Mendes, this play unfolds in three parts and leaves an underlying message to the audience in how American capitalism can be revealed as a failed system.
According to La Voce di New York, at the end of the Tony Awards ceremony, Stefano Massini comments on how this was “an unprecedented experience: it is the first time that an Italian playwright wins” and it is a very beautiful feeling.
He further explains how this represents his idea of theater, “a sign that even small stories can take the stage. A plot written by an Italian who tells nothing of Italy but of the whole world, a story of America, of immigrants who arrived in the Untied States and built an empire. It deals with the history of the economy and the failure of a bank and how we become what we are.”
The Lehman Trilogy is a huge success and has been suggested by the New York Post to do anything you can to get a ticket.
-Juliet Reyes
