Broadway, Stages, Theater

On the Road: Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt on Broadway—a Brilliant and Intense Saga of a Viennese Jewish Family Over Six Decades

Leopoldstadt is a place, a Jewish section of old Vienna. It’s also an imagined history of how two intermarried Jewish families lived (or didn’t live) through six decades of the […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Stages, Theater

Review: Remy Bumppo’s Radio Play—Artist Descending a Staircase—Is a Tom Stoppard Delight

Modern art, death and trippy art talk, as only Tom Stoppard can write it. That’s the best reason to listen to Remy Bumppo Theatre Company’s latest production, a radio play […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Feature, Stages, Theater

Essay: Revisiting Stoppard’s Magnificent The Coast of Utopia on Its 14th Anniversary

This week I had a chance to revisit the most spectacular theater experience I’ve ever had. It took place on a weekend in February 2007. Over the course of two […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Review, Stages, Theater

Rock Music Means Freedom in Artistic Home’s Stirring Rock and Roll by Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard stirs up his personal brew of European political ideology, love, death and pop culture in his 2006 play, Rock and Roll, now on stage in a stirring production […]

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