Usman Ally and Justin Kirk in NYTW's THE INVISIBLE HAND

An American Stockbroker Confronts Horrors in Pakistan in Ayad Akhtar’s New Play

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 5, 2014

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar discusses his new play The Invisible Hand. He will be joined by two of the show's leading actors, Justin Kirk and Usman Ally. The play follows Nick Bright, an American stock broker, into a terrifying world of kidnapping and torture in a remote region of Pakistan. As Nick negotiates to save his own life he begins to see his captors in a new light. The Invisible Hand runs through January 4 at the New York Theater Workshop. 

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