Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” sets Broadway engagement for fall 2022

Winner of the Tom Stoppard Olivier Award Leopoldstadt Director Patrick Marber will perform on Broadway Limited Involvement this fall, the producers announced today.

LeopoldstadtOlivier, who won the Best New Play of the Year 2020 award, will begin his performances at the Broadway Longacre Theater on Wednesday 14 September, with the official opening on Sunday 2 October.

The announcement was made by producers Sonia Friedman Productions, Roy Furman and Lorne Michaels.

Described as one of Stoppard’s most personal works, Leopoldstadt Opening in London’s West End on January 25, 2020 with critical acclaim. The planned extension was curtailed by demand seven weeks later due to the closure of Covid. At the end of 2021, the show returned for an additional 12-week commitment. Both were sold and Leopoldstadt It received the Olivier Award for Best New Theatrical Work in October 2020.

The show marks Stoppard’s 19th Broadway show since its inception. Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are dead Opened 55 years ago. Stoppard has won four of the awards for best tone of play, more than any other playwright in history.

foundry for Leopoldstadt It will be announced later.

Located in Vienna, Leopoldstadt Take the title of the Jewish quarter. Short description: “This passionate drama of love and endurance begins in the last days of 1899 and follows a large family into the heart of the 20th century. Tom Stoppard’s subsequent work spans over fifty years, over fifty years, filled with his usual wit and beauty.

“Every new time trial show is a treasure,” said Sonia Friedmann, “but Leopoldstadt is truly a gift and the most intense personal work of our greatest living playwright.” Leopoldstadt is a gripping drama of lasting love and family ties that asks us to bear witness to our past, however painful it may be. I can’t wait to see Patrick Marber’s truly extraordinary and epic works in North America at a time when I find it more necessary than ever.

Marber said, “My joy was to revive the tribe’s first play transvestites On Broadway in 2018. At the time he said he was just starting to write something new. Lo and behold, it is powerful Leopoldstadt. I have loved tribal games since childhood. I studied his creativity in college, he was inspired as a novice playwright. It is a great honor to direct his new work ”.

LeopoldstadtThe creative team includes production design by Richard Hudson, costume design by Bridget Rifenstel, lighting design by Neil Austin, original sound and music by Adam Cork, video design by Isaac Mage and movement by Emily Jane Boyle .