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Top stories include Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bad Cinderella, heading to Broadway in 2023. Plus, go inside opening night of Leopoldstadt, meet the cast of Almost Famous, and more!

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.

Read the latest reviews for must-see plays, musicals, and theatre productions at NewYorkTheatreGuide.com.

With a cast of 38 actors, the playwright covers over half a century of anti-Semitism in Old Vienna

Tom Stoppard's latest play makes landfall on Broadway.

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.

The critics are weighing in on Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning Best New Play, directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Patrick Marber. The new play opens on Broadway tonight, Sunday, October 2 at the Longacre Theatre.

All four of the playwrights grandparents died in the Holocaust, but Stoppard only learned he was Jewish in middle age. Now, at 85, he engages with his family history in the play Leopoldstadt.

Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt" is his reckoning with Jewish culture, but it cares more for history than its characters.

Tom Stoppard's likely last major play comes home to the most personal question clearly still swirling around his mind: Was the erasure of his identity justified or an immoral act?