<!-- wp:html --><p>Courtesy of The Bridge Theater</p>
<p>Ironies should abound in a play about <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-robert-moses-democratized-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art">Robert Moses</a>, the urban planner, “master builder” and subject of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-power-broker-turns-40-how-robert-caro-wrote-a-masterpiece">Robert Caro</a>’s iconic and devastating biography <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Power-Broker-Robert-Moses-Fall/dp/0394720245">The Power Broker</a></em> who reshaped New York over four decades as its most powerful public official despite getting crushed in his one attempt to win elected office himself.</p>
<p>Those ironies start and, regrettably, mostly end with <em>Straight Line Crazy</em>’s arrival this week from London <a href="https://theshed.org/program/250-straight-line-crazy">to make its New York debut Off-Broadway (to Dec 18)</a> at the Shed in <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/hudson-yards-is-going-all-out-to-make-new-yorkers-love-malls">Hudson Yards</a>.</p>
<p>That’s the signature performance space in the new luxury neighborhood on Manhattan’s Far West Side erected over a multi-billion-dollar platform on top of a rail yard to fulfill the business community’s long-frustrated dream of expanding Manhattan’s sprawling office districts into what had been badly underused land on one of the world’s most valuable islands.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/in-straight-line-crazy-ralph-fiennes-turns-master-builder-robert-moses-into-a-big-bore?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
Courtesy of The Bridge Theater
Ironies should abound in a play about Robert Moses, the urban planner, “master builder” and subject of Robert Caro’s iconic and devastating biography The Power Broker who reshaped New York over four decades as its most powerful public official despite getting crushed in his one attempt to win elected office himself.
That’s the signature performance space in the new luxury neighborhood on Manhattan’s Far West Side erected over a multi-billion-dollar platform on top of a rail yard to fulfill the business community’s long-frustrated dream of expanding Manhattan’s sprawling office districts into what had been badly underused land on one of the world’s most valuable islands.
