Leopoldstadt on Broadway: Show Is Now Closed

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Leopoldstadt Summary

  • Show Status: Closed
  • Genre: Play
  • Leopoldstadt is 120 minutes long, and does not have an intermission.
  • 8 Shows per week
  • Previews Began: September 14, 2022
  • Show Opened : October 2, 2022
  • Show Closed: July 2, 2023

Tom Stoppard's story of a Jewish family through a fifty year time span in Vienna, Austria from start of the 20th century through to the end of the Second World War.

Leopoldstadt on Broadway Background

Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt comes to Broadway from London's West End where it made its world premiere in January 2020 and received both popular and critical acclaim. Stoppard is notably Britain's greatest living dramatist and playwright.

The Olivier-winning play originally premiered in London in 2020 at the Wyndham Theatre. This production reunited writer Tom Stoppard, director Patrick Marber, and producer Sonia Friedman, who all last collaborated on Travesties which appeared off-Broadway in 2017.

Show Strikes Gold at The Olivier Awards in 2020

The show won big at the UK's version of the TONY Awards in 2020. The show won "Best New Play" and "Best Actor in a Supporting Role" at The Laurence Olivier Awards in 2020. These awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognize excellence in professional theatre.

They new play makes its North American premiere on Broadway after a cancelled run in Toronto earlier in 2022, where COVID-19 took down its plans for an out of town tryout with North American audiences.

Toronto Tryout in 2022 Cancelled

The play was scheduled to have its North American premiere at Toronto's "Princess of Wales Theatre" in January 2022, but the run was cancelled due to rising COVID-19 cases and the implementation of capacity restrictions, border closings, and quarantines.

38 Cast Members Announced

This show has a very large cast list on Broadway and 28 of them are making their official Broadway debuts.

What’s Leopoldstadt Like?

The show is set over a fifty year period in Vienna, Austria. The show follows the lives of a singular extended Jewish Viennese family. The play explores the human condition and its resilience in the face of traumatic history before and after World War II. The show has five acts which include:

  • 1899: Where the family first gathers for Hanukkah celebrations
  • 1900: Two of the family members Gretl and Fritz strike up an illicit affair
  • 1924: Members of the family are now recovering from WW1, where one of them was killed and another maimed
  • 1938: With the rise of Nazism and Hitler's hatred of Jews and Vienna, some of the family plans to escape to England. Others are scattered across Europe, many end up caught in the Holocaust and the extermination camps
  • 1955: The survivors of the family solemnly gather in the family home in Vienna. Only 3 of the original family members survive. The remaining family members painfully recollect their memories and acknowledge their murdered family members

Is Leopoldstadt Good for Kids?

Although the show has a lot of historical references the show is not suitable for children under the age of 16 years.

The show contains references to a lot of adult subject matter including infidelity, murder, suicide, rape, violence and the extermination of Jews during the holocaust.

Theatre Information

Longacre Theatre

220 West 48th Street
New York, NY 10019
Seats: 1,095
Entrance: 48th Street between Broadway and 8th Avenues
Theatre Information

Longacre Theatre Seating Chart

Leopoldstadt Marquee

Leopoldstadt Marquee

Cast Members

Aaron Leo
Jesse Aaronson
Wilma Rosa
Jenna Augen
Otto
Japhet Balaban
Civilian
Corey Brill
Kurt Mohel
Daniel Cantor
Gretl
Faye Castelow

Past Cast Members

Aaron Leo
Caissie Levy
Grandma Emilia
Brandon Uranowitz
Wilma Rosa
Faye Castelow
Civilian
Arty Froushan
Kurt Mohel
Aaron Neil
Grandma Emilia
Betsy Aidem

Producers

Sonia Friedman

Production Credits

Director
Patrick Marber

Creative Team

Writer
Tom Stoppard