Tom Stoppard on Delving Into His Family History for ‘Leopoldstadt’ and What’s Next: “I Feel That I’m Getting Into Something New” The renowned playwright speaks about seeing himself in ...

Playwright Tom Stoppard was in his 50s when he learned of his Jewish heritage. Almost 20 years after that discovery, he engages with with his family history and identity in the play Leopoldstadt .

Andrew Dickson interviews the playwright Tom Stoppard, whose latest play, “Leopoldstadt,” recently opened on Broadway, after a highly acclaimed run in London, in 2020.

In the final scene of Tom Stoppard’s latest play, Leopoldstadt, which follows generations of a Jewish family living in Vienna from the late 1800s through World War II and its aftermath, a stand ...

All four of the playwright's grandparents died in the Holocaust, but Stoppard only learned he was Jewish in middle age. Now, at 85, he engages with his family history in the play Leopoldstadt.

“Leopoldstadt,” Tom Stoppard’s stunning new play on Broadway about a highly cultivated extended family in Vienna that was decimated in the Holocaust, isn’t autobiographical. But the work ...

From Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt, at the Longacre. Photo: Joan Marcus “It’s like a second death” for your name to be forgotten in a family album, a grandmother reflects. Flip back far ...

Stoppard’s father, Dr. Eugen Straussler, fled to Singapore with Martha, 2-year-old Tom, and his 4-year-old brother, Peter, thanks to visas provided by Straussler’s hospital.

Tom Stoppard’s heart-wrenching play stars David Krumholtz, Faye Castelow and Seth Numrich as generations of a Viennese high-society clan gradually decimated by wars, the Holocaust and time.

Written by Tom Stoppard, it was loosely inspired by the playwright’s own Holocaust history, and the story seemed remarkably similar to my family’s past: an assimilated Austrian Jewish clan is ripped ...

In Tom Stoppard’s award winning play “Leopoldstadt,” playing at the Huntington Theatre through Oct. 13, a family drama of decades takes place within a single room.

In the final scene of Tom Stoppard’s latest play, Leopoldstadt, which follows generations of a Jewish family living in Vienna from the late 1800s through World War II and its aftermath, a stand-in for ...