Autumn for Hitler

Witness the spectacle of British theater going up itself: A London theater company is using the Holocaust as the backdrop for a play about the redemptive power of—you guessed it—theater. The Telegraph reports that Imagine This is the story of "a family of actors who has to convince the ghetto community that a simple play is worth performing when they are fighting for survival." The show’s director, hoping to capture the magic of Les Mis, "promised that audiences would not emerge from the musical depressed, but enthused." Just in case they are moved to have the opposite reaction, we suggest coming armed with tomatoes.