Leopoldstadt
- Dates
- Oct 2, 2022 – Jul 2, 2023
- Performances
- 313
About
Leopoldstadt is the final stage play written by British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard. The original production premiered on 25 January 2020 at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End. The play is set among the wealthy Jewish community in Vienna, in the first half of the 20th century and follows the lives of "a prosperous Jewish family who had fled the pogroms in the East". According to Stoppard, the play "took a year to write, but the gestation was much longer. Quite a lot of it is personal to me, but I made it about a Viennese family so that it wouldn't seem to be about me." All four of Stoppard's grandparents were Jews murdered by Nazis in concentration camps. On 2 October 2022, the New York production opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre with Patrick Marber directing. A National Thea...