The Lucky Star

59E59 devotes its first Volt Festival—which presents three concurrent NYC premieres by a single writer whose work has been underrepresented in the city—to a trio of plays by Karen Hartman. The centerpiece is The Lucky Star, a drama adapted from Richard Hollander’s Every Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family’s Correspondence from Poland, which documents his disovery of a trove of letters from his father's Jewish family in Poland during the Holocaust. Previously presented in Chicago and Baltimore under the the title The Book of Joseph, the play moves between past an present to explore a story of immigration and survival. The large cast of this production, directed by Noah Himmelstein, includes Steven Skybell, Danny Gavigan, Nina Hellman, Alexandra Silber, Dale Soules and Stuart Zagnit.