Jekyll & Hyde at Just Off-Broadway
author Leonard Taube
In 1886 Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson penned a Gothic horror novella titled Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde. Becoming one of the most famous pieces of English literature, it also played a part in pop culture with the expression “Jekyll and Hyde” being used to refer to people that appear good but have an evil nature inside.