Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library

by Jenny Lyn Bader

Berlin, 1933.

With martial law in effect, political activism has become a capital crime. A young Gestapo officer arrests a philosophy grad student. Interrogating her will be dangerous for them both. Inspired by real events — and by the life and mind of one of history's most profound thinkers.

NEXT STOP: EUROPE

Thanks to all who have come to see our Luna Stage production at 5959 Theaters or WP Theater in NYC, in Martha’s Vineyard, or at the presentation at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, or of course at Luna Stage in West Orange.

Next, the play will have its European premiere. Luna Stage and Richard Jordan productions will bring it, with its original Off-Broadway cast, to the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, starting August 6.

We are thrilled to announce that after Edinburgh, the play will have a return engagement at 59E59 Theaters, September 12-October 25.

Tickets are on sale.

Want to read it? An acting edition is forthcoming from Dramatists Play Service / Concord Theatricals in 2026.