受真实事件的启发，本片深入研究了美国最富有和最不幸福的家庭之一盖蒂家族的考验和胜利，将家族史、王朝传奇和对金钱侵蚀力量的考察等分，探索了每个家庭（无论贫富）内心的复杂性。

该剧始于1973年盖提石油公司继承人约翰·保罗·盖提三世被罗马的意大利黑手党绑架。他的绑架者指望得到数百万美元的赎金。保罗的祖父老保罗·盖提是一位神秘的石油大亨，很可能是世界上最富有的人，他住在英国乡村的一座都铎式豪宅里，周围是一群妻妾和一只宠物狮子。他很忙。保罗的父亲小保罗·盖提在伦敦浑浑噩噩，拒绝接电话。只有保罗的母亲盖尔·盖提留下来与日益绝望的绑匪谈判。不幸的是，她破产了。该剧记录了十几岁的孙子在绑架者手中的噩梦磨难，绑架者不明白为什么似乎没有人想要他们的俘虏回去。

在美国南部阿肯色州的夏日里，伴随着刺耳的蝉鸣，Lafayette一家三位儿女因为父亲的去世而被迫重聚在一起，处理房产等身后事宜。大姐Toni希望大家可以借机重聚在一起缅怀父亲，二哥Bo则希望拿回一些照料父亲所花费的金钱，小儿子Franz离家多年失联，他的突然出现令大家惊诧。在收拾父亲过往财物时，意外的发现令全家人被迫面对家族中深埋的黑色过往。
It’s summer, the cicadas are singing, and the Lafayette family has returned to their late patriarch’s Arkansas home to deal with the remains of his estate. Toni (Paulson), the eldest daughter, hopes they’ll spend the weekend remembering and reconnecting over their beloved father. Bo (Stoll), her brother, wants to recoup some of the funds he spent caring for Dad at the end of his life. But things take a turn when their estranged brother, Franz, appears late one night, and mysterious objects are discovered among the clutter. Suddenly, long-hidden secrets and buried resentments can’t be contained, and the family is forced to face the ghosts of their past.

Following his revelatory production of Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage, the internationally acclaimed director Ivo van Hove returns to New York Theatre Workshop with a new production, Lazarus, by David Bowie and Enda Walsh. Mr. Walsh makes his return to NYTW after the successful run of Once. Lazarus features songs specially composed for this production by Mr. Bowie as well as new arrangements of previously recorded songs. Lazarus, inspired by the 1963 novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, centers on the character of Thomas Newton, famously portrayed by Mr. Bowie in the 1976 screen adaptation directed by Nicolas Roeg.

这是一部关于一个真实天才的极富人性的剧情片。英俊而又十分古怪的数学家小约翰纳什念研究生时便发明了他著名的博弈理论，短短26页的论文在经济、军事等领域产生深远的影响，他开始享有国际声誉。但纳什出众的直觉受到了精神分裂症的困扰，使他向学术上最高层次进军的辉煌历程发生了巨大改变。面对这个曾经击毁了许多人的挑战，纳什在深爱着他的妻子艾丽西亚的相助下，与被认为是只能好转、无法治愈的疾病作斗争。经过十几年的不懈努力，完全通过意志的力量，他一如既往地坚持工作，并于1994年获得诺贝尔奖，他在博奕论方面颇具前瞻性的工作也成为20世纪最具影响力的理论。这是一个真人真事的传奇故事，今天纳什继续在他的领域中耕耘着。