Famed British playwright Tom Stoppard, born in 1937 in Czechoslovakia, was the son of a Jewish doctor who fled the Nazi occupation with his family to Singapore. When the Japanese
The Viennese Jewish family at the heart of this new Broadway production thinks it is too assimilated to be in danger when the Nazis arrive. They are wrong.
This brilliant work is set in the same room in Vienna but sprawls across decades and generations as it follows two affluent Jewish families connected by marriage.