Alix Sobler has form weaving drama from historical stories, breathing life into real characters and populating her worlds with believable fictional roles. In 2016 London played host to The Great Divide, her take on the 1911 fire in a New York garment factory that killed 146. The capital…

James Phillips’ award-winning 2005 play was inspired by the story behind the execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in 1953 for allegedly providing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Esther and Jakob Rubenstein are the fictional Jewish couple, whose similar fate is a given…