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The Holocaust on Broadway

Tom Stoppard’s new play takes on the gravity of history

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Jason Steinhauer
Oct 09, 2022
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The show poster for Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt.”

History has been particularly noticeable on Broadway lately. The most famous example was Hamilton, which we discussed last year in History Club and which I reviewed in this newsletter. Hamilton, I argued, was not really about history, or even the past; rather, it was largely about the present. The histor…

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