About the Show

Tom Stoppard returns to Broadway with his newest heart-wrenching (and Olivier Award-winning) play.

Set in the Jewish quarter of Vienna, this impassioned story of heart and bravery follows an extended family from the late 1800s into the middle of the 20th century. Rife with the wit and charm that Tom Stoppard has come to be known for, his newest play explores fifty years of history across just two hours.

With a massive cast featuring 38 performers, and direction by Patrick Marber, the play is both grand in scale and laser-focused in its intimate look at human life.

The premiere production of the play received London's 2020 Olivier Award for Best New Play.

Critic Reviews (25)

CRITIC'S PICK " 'Leopoldstadt' is at its best not in instructing us how we must mourn a lost world but in bringing it lovingly back to life."
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"True to its goal, 'Leopoldstadt' presents stories one won't easily forget, and won't want to."
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"As a vehicle for recovered memories, and for interrogating the injustice of difference and persistent intolerance, 'Leopoldstadt' is remarkable."
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" 'Leopoldstadt' is never merely a threnody for the victims of the 20th century’s greatest abomination. It’s rich in emotional complexity, and even exudes a dark majesty."
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"If Stoppard sacrifices audience connection with any particular character...he compensates by etching a family history so sprawling and compelling that we embrace it even as we struggle with the details."
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"I think I’ll remember this show the most for how it uses a family album...variously fascinated by various new photographic technologies as a tool for remembering."
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"In a radical departure from his usual intellectually esoteric style, Tom Stoppard’s new play is an intensely personal family drama."
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"Perhaps what moved me so was the pain layered on in delicate brushstrokes in this fictionalized account, which was deeply influenced by Stoppard’s later-in-life discovery of his own Jewish roots."
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