Tag Archives: Tom Stoppard
Report From New York: Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt Questions Assimilation
Leopoldstadt’s breathtaking scene of a family’s debate whether to flee the Third Reich — ended by a knock on the door — is only one facet in Tom Stoppard’s borderline masterpiece that tracks a half-century in the lives of a bourgeoise Jewish family in Vienna as the world around them changes.
Book Review: Stoppard Bio Is As Complex As The Man Himself
Most biographies factually mirror the life and times of their subject in a chronological narrative. But few mirror the complexity and structure of the subject’s own work with the stunning faithfulness of Hermione Lee’s exhaustive and exhausting epic examination of one of the greatest playwrights in English or any other language, Tom Stoppard: A Life.
Report From New York: The Real Thing Remains A Puzzlement
Tom Stoppard’s play about the war between head and heart in romance, The Real Thing, is reputedly his most accessible. Yet on my fourth connection with it through the revival at Roundabout Theatre Company, it still doesn’t cleanly despite a starry cast.
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