Review: 'Girl, Interrupted' Memoir Adapted into Patchy Musical

Girl, Interrupted review – mental health memoir reborn as patchy Aimee Mann-soundtracked musical

The Public Theater, New York Susanna Kaysen’s retelling of her time in a psychiatric hospital in the 60s became an Oscar-winning movie in the 90s and now it’s an elegant, if limited, play In 2021, the singer-songwriter Aimee Mann (perhaps best known, as a solo artist, for her contributions to the Paul Thomas Anderson film Magnolia) released an album called Queens of the Summer Hotel, a collection of somewhat narrative tunes inspired by Susanna Kaysen’s bestselling memoir of mental health str...

By Richard Lawson