The missed opportunities of Tom Stoppard's 'Leopoldstadt'
Stoppard’s play is not exploitative, but intelligent and sincere. I understand why critics and audiences have found it moving, “brilliant,” “beautiful” and “prescient.”
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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.