LEOPOLDSTADT
First US Production
Written by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Carey Perloff
Huntington Theatre
Boston
Shakespeare Theater
SELECTED REVIEWS
Leopoldstadt, The Huntington Theatre, Photo by Liza Voll
Excerpt:
It wasn’t until the early 1990s that the celebrated writer learned that all four of his grandparents had been Jewish and had died while imprisoned in Auschwitz and other concentration camps, along with his three aunts on his mother’s side.
With that awareness, the brilliant wordsmith – an Academy- and multi-Tony-Award winner for plays and movies including “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “Travesties,” “Arcadia,” “The Coast of Utopia,” and “Shakespeare in Love” – wrote the sweeping “Leopoldstadt,” a fictionalized account of the family he never knew now being given a heart-rending production by the Huntington, in association with Washington, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, at the Huntington Theatre through October 13.
–– Jewish Rhode Island
–– WBUR
Leopoldstadt, Brenda Meany, Samuel Adams, The Huntington Theatre, Photo by Liza Voll