Master Builder, The

Inspired by Henrik Ibsen's 1892 play The Master Builder, the new show is written by US playwright Lila Raicek and will be directed by Michael Grandage.

Perhaps the most powerful man in American history never to have held elective office, Moses became New York's Master Builder, the man responsible for creating most of the dams and bridges around the state, most of its highways and state parks, two New York City World Fairs and the United Nations building.

Articles on the project were greeted with comments such as “Long live Tehran’s master builder, the humble accomplisher, Dr Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf,” and “May the eyes of the envious and extremist burst in jealousy.”

Mostly finished as an architect by 1936, Tillie was brought in as a consultant by owner Robert Moses, referred to as "New York's Master Builder, the man responsible for creating most of the dams and bridges around the state, most of its highways and state parks, two New York City World Fairs and the United Nations building," wrote Ron Whitten in 2002.

Clients, he said, probably feared the inevitable headline: Albert Speer — “the devil’s architect,” Hitler’s master builder, the man who was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials — was again building in Berlin.