Author Jodi Picoult stages The Book Thief musical as a ‘cautionary tale’

“And for us, we’re four Americans who have seen a rise to power of an administration that sought to divide America rather than unite it, that leaned into the ideas of lying, of calling the press fake news, of calling immigrants the enemy of the state, of banning books… I mean, my God, all of this is literally in the pages of The Book Thief.