In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Master of the Stage Confronts His Own Ghosts
Tom Stoppard’s most personal play covers years of dashed dreams and consummated cataclysm.

“Leopoldstadt,” Tom Stoppard’s most personal play, is also true to the playwright’s form. It features a lot of talking, a surfeit of ideas, and is unrepentantly highbrow. It tells the story of a Jew-ish family at Vienna — there are baptisms and mixed marriages aplenty — between 1899 and 1955. Years of dashed dreams and cataclysm, on view at the Longacre Theatre.
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