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Leopoldstadt, the critically acclaimed hit Broadway play, will run nearly four months longer than initially planned: Producers announced today the the show will run through July 2, 2023, at the Longacre Theatre; Leopoldstadt had previously been selling tickets only until March. In a Broadway fall…

The great playwright Tom Stoppard and his simpatico director Patrick Marber make a lasting gift of remembrance in the brilliant, gorgeous and devastating new play Leopoldstadt, opening tonight at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre. But it’s a gift that comes with strings, ropes even, the author seems to be…

Most of the 38-member cast of the upcoming Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning Leopoldstadt was announced today, with four members of the original West End company making the move and newcomers to the show set to include Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, Seth Numrich and David…

Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning Leopoldstadt directed by Patrick Marber will play a limited Broadway engagement this fall, producers announced today. Leopoldstadt, which won the Olivier for Best New Play in 2020, will begin performances at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre on Wednesday, September 14, with an official…

The Hard Problem, a new play by Arcadia playwright Tom Stoppard to be staged by his The Coast of Utopia director Jack O’Brien, will premiere next fall as a Lincoln Center Theater production. The Stoppard play is one of two new Lincoln Center Theater productions announced today for the fall season. Also coming: Miranda…

Tom Stoppard’s Tony-winning 1974 play Travesties, stuffed thick as a English gentleman’s armchair, its ideas on art, war, patriotism and purposeful nonsense fashioned into a nonstop tourney of wit and erudition, has often been called a brainteaser, but brain tickler comes so much closer to the jubilant staging…

Accepting the PEN American Center’s version of a Lifetime Achievement Award, writer Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare In Love, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead) voiced support on Tuesday night for another of the $1,250-a-plate gala’s honorees, the surviving staff of the Paris-based satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The…

Tom Stoppard, a fevered friend of free expression and foe of bad writing, will receive the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award for his “extraordinary career as a dramatist and his abiding commitment to the defense of creative freedom worldwide.” It’s the highest honor bestowed by the American chapter of the…

UPDATE, JANUARY 27: Rosemary Harris clarifies that she said “misty-eyed” not “mystified” regarding the film Tea With Mussolini and seeing the role go to Judi Dench. It’s corrected, below. EXCLUSIVE: In November I began these conversations with artists who have deep roots on both coasts with Bradley Cooper, receiving…

UPDATE October 31: Adds Barb Jungr’s show at end. Tom Stoppard's 1982 dazzler gets the matinee-comedy treatment from director-of-the-moment Sam Gold in a revival that leaves its attractive stars, both in their Broadway bows, deeply in the lurch. Glib and weirdly chilly for a literate comedy-drama about love…

The stage adaptation of Oscar winner Shakespeare In Love has opened at London’s Noel Coward Theatre to raves from many of the UK critics but a big ho-hum from the New York Times‘s Ben Brantley, which could throw a wet blanket over plans for a Broadway transfer by co-producers Disney and Sonia Friedman. “I’ve often…

Jack O’Brien, a Broadway polymath as comfortable directing Tom Stoppard chin-strokers as he is developing big Broadway musicals, has signed with CAA. O’Brien, who led San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre from the early 1980s through 2007,  helping turn the regional nonprofit into a sometime Broadway tributary. O’Brien, 74…