The Great Gatsby

The Heights Players’ 59th season opens with the NY premiere of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, adapted for the stage by Simon Levy. This elegant production celebrates one of the most iconoclastic portrayals of the American Dream by one of America’s most famous authors. Considered a contender for the title “The Great American Novel,” The Great Gatsby is the product of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s decision to write “something new – something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned.”

It is thought of as Fitzgerald’s finest work, capturing the spirit of his generation and earning a permanent place in American mythology. The Great Gatsby is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a young man who comes to Long Island in the summer of 1922 to make his fortune in the stock market, but gets caught up in the world of jazz, booze, obsession and greed. Levy’s adaptation is the only stage version approved by the Fitzgerald estate to be produced in the US.