Leopoldstadt at last

Tom Stoppard is surely one of today’s most brilliant playwrights—if not writer, in general. I’ve been in his thrall since Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead, through Jumpers, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia (the first play I ever saw at The Folger Theatre in D.C.) and now his most personal play, Leopoldstadt, which I finally saw at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. This production was directed by Stoppard’s longtime friend and collaborator, Carey Perloff, and I interviewed from her home in San Francisco. You can hear our four-minute chat here.