The rise and epic fall of a storied family comes to the stage of Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré while the story of hubris in the hands of a scientist with a comic twist takes to the green fields of Lafitte Greenway as two local theatrical companies open shows in October.

Grim brothers

The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers is the penultimate chapter of a story about a family that spans nearly two centuries and comes to Le Petit in the French Quarter on Oct. 3.

"The Lehman Trilogy" features three actors playing dozens of roles in a show that spans generations and recounts the history of a family of Southern dry goods merchants who become one of the greatest success and failure stories of recent financial times. The subprime mortgage crisis led to the "Lehman Shock" and cataclysmic losses in

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