'Current War' Musical Depicts Historic Struggle Between Edison And Westinghouse
The struggle between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse was dramatized in "The Current War," a 2019 feature film starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon. But the film's screenwriter, Pittsburgh-area native Michael Mitnick, originally envisioned the story as, of all things, a musical. And about 14 years after he wrote it, that musical will premiere June 4 as possibly Pittsburgh's biggest and most elaborat…