LEAR, INTERRUPTED follows Artistic Director Daniel Levine on the night The Foundry was supposed to reopen with a bold new Lear—but instead, he’s there to shutter the place for good. Alone onstage, he delivers a farewell that quickly unravels into a raw, storm-tossed reckoning with legacy, collapse, and the art form he gave everything to. Speaking to an audience that may or may not exist, Daniel confronts the wreckage of his life and career in a final attempt to make meaning before the lights go out.

This play is a love letter to the American theater. The full spectrum of production possibilities is on the table: it may be fully staged and performed by a seasoned actor, or briefly rehearsed and read aloud by a current Artistic Director at a regional theater. In either case, real-world anecdotes specific to the producing theater may be substituted or woven in to deepen its local resonance.