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In Alan's finest half-hour, he offended the Irish, sold a few tie-and-blazer badge combinations and made a new friend. But what inspired it?

“Leopoldstadt” should be required viewing for Kanye West, Kyrie Irving and the woke mobs who had never heard of Kristallnacht and who believe that Jews, throughout the ages, have led charmed, white-privileged lives.

'Mammals' is a poignant piece of drama with a sucker punch ending worth the wait.

Tom Stoppard is one of those playwrights who flatters you with his erudition. His 1993 play “Arcadia” dives deeply into the mathematics of algorithms and fractals. His breakthrough 1966 play,

A different play could have helped all of us, especially the children and grandchildren of American Jews who lived through the Holocaust

Stoppard’s play is not exploitative, but intelligent and sincere. I understand why critics and audiences have found it moving, “brilliant,” “beautiful” and “prescient.”

“I can only direct once or twice a year. It’s exhausting.”

A crowded portrait of a glittering prewar Jewish milieu exorcises the playwright’s own ghosts.

(JTA) - Speaking on the phone from an empty balcony in the Longacre Theater in New York, several hours before a preview performance of his latest

The director shares the stakes of working with the Tony- and Olivier-winning playwright on his personal new play.