Leopoldstadt (Broadway)
Closed 2h 10m
Leopoldstadt (Broadway)
85%
85%
(1433 Ratings)
Positive
92%
Mixed
6%
Negative
2%
Members say
Absorbing, Great acting, Ambitious, Intelligent, Great writing

About the Show

Tom Stoppard returns to Broadway with his newest heart-wrenching (and Olivier Award-winning) play.

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Critic Reviews (25)

The New York Times
October 2nd, 2022

CRITIC'S PICK " 'Leopoldstadt' is at its best not in instructing us how we must mourn a lost world but in bringing it lovingly back to life."
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New York Theatre Guide
October 2nd, 2022

"True to its goal, 'Leopoldstadt' presents stories one won't easily forget, and won't want to."
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New York Magazine / Vulture
October 2nd, 2022

"As a vehicle for recovered memories, and for interrogating the injustice of difference and persistent intolerance, 'Leopoldstadt' is remarkable."
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The Wall Street Journal
October 2nd, 2022

" 'Leopoldstadt' is never merely a threnody for the victims of the 20th century’s greatest abomination. It’s rich in emotional complexity, and even exudes a dark majesty."
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Deadline
October 2nd, 2022

"If Stoppard sacrifices audience connection with any particular character...he compensates by etching a family history so sprawling and compelling that we embrace it even as we struggle with the details."
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New York Daily News
October 3rd, 2022

"I think I’ll remember this show the most for how it uses a family album...variously fascinated by various new photographic technologies as a tool for remembering."
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Variety
October 2nd, 2022

"In a radical departure from his usual intellectually esoteric style, Tom Stoppard’s new play is an intensely personal family drama."
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The Washington Post
October 2nd, 2022

"Perhaps what moved me so was the pain layered on in delicate brushstrokes in this fictionalized account, which was deeply influenced by Stoppard’s later-in-life discovery of his own Jewish roots."
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