The past, present, and future of antibiotics are dramatized in the musical Lifeline, which on September 21, 2024, held a gala performance to precede the 79th United Nations General Assembly’s September 26 Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) meeting. The show playing at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater at The Pershing Square Signature Center through September 28, dramatizes Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin and the personalization of the AMR global crisis.
Historically, antibiotics have saved hundreds of millions of lives, but they are in danger of being defeated by the evolving microbes that circumvent their protection. “Without antibiotics, we can’t have modern medicine,” said Dame Sally Davies, formerly Chief Medical Officer of England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK government, and now the UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance.
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