Scammed Into Love

For whatever good it does her, Briana Bartenieff is a nepo grandbaby of the Off-Off Broadway scene: Her grandparents Crystal Field and George Bartenieff founded Theater for the New City in 1971, and Field still runs it today. It was at TNC that she first put pen to paper as an adolescent playwright, and now—all grown up—she comes home to the complex with her first full-length musical: the tale of an underhanded con artist who trades the prospect of romance for money but winds up falling for one of her victims. Bartenieff directs the premiere, and wrote the libretto to music by J.H. Greenwell.