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Leopoldstadt is a dramatic stage play written by British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard.[1]

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  1. 84 relations: Adrian Scarborough, Alexis Zegerman, Anschluss, Arnold Schoenberg, Arty Froushan, Auschwitz concentration camp, BBC Radio 4, Betsy Aidem, Bolsheviks, Brandon Uranowitz, Brit milah, Broadway theatre, Caissie Levy, Cavalry, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, COVID-19 pandemic, Dailes Theatre, David Krumholtz, David Mirvish, Deadline Hollywood, Drama Desk Award, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, Drama League Award, Ed Stoppard, Gustav Mahler, Habima Theatre, Hamlet, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jews, John Malkovich, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, Laurence Olivier Awards, Longacre Theatre, Matt Harrington (actor), Mohel, National Theatre Live, Neil Austin (lighting designer), New York Drama Critics' Circle, Outer Critics Circle Awards, Passover Seder, Patrick Marber, Play (theatre), Playbill, Pogrom, Princess of Wales Theatre, Richard Hudson (stage designer), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, ... Expand index (34 more) »

  2. 2020 plays
  3. Plays about the Holocaust
  4. Plays by Tom Stoppard

Adrian Scarborough

Adrian Philip Scarborough (born 10 May 1968) is an English actor.

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Alexis Zegerman

Alexis Zegerman is a British actress and writer.

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Anschluss

The Anschluss (or Anschluß), also known as the Anschluß Österreichs (Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer.

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Arty Froushan

Artemas Bolour-Froushan (born 16 April 1993) is an English actor.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Betsy Aidem

Betsy Aidem (born October 28, 1957) is an American actress.

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Brandon Uranowitz

Brandon Jacob Uranowitz (born July 9, 1986) is an American actor.

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Brit milah

The brit milah (bərīṯ mīlā,,; "covenant of circumcision") or bris (ברית) is the ceremony of circumcision in Judaism and Samaritanism, during which the foreskin is surgically removed.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Caissie Levy

Caissie Levy (born April 15, 1981) is a Canadian-American actress and singer, mainly known for her work in musical theatre on Broadway and in the West End.

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Cavalry

Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from cheval meaning "horse") are soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback.

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Christiane Amanpour

Christiane Maria Heideh AmanpourStated on Finding Your Roots, 22 January 2019 (Kristiane Amānpur; born 12 January 1958) is a British-Iranian journalist and television host.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Dailes Theatre

The Dailes Theatre (Dailes teātris) is a professional Latvian theater founded by Latvian director and actor Eduards Smiļģis (1886-1966) on November 19, 1920 at the Craftsmen Relief Society House at Lāčplēša Street 25, Riga, Latvia.

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David Krumholtz

David Krumholtz (born May 15, 1978) is an American actor.

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David Mirvish

David Mirvish, (born August 29, 1944) is a Canadian theatre producer, impresario, and art collector.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Award is an annual prize recognizing excellence in New York theatre.

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The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play was an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City.

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City.

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Drama League Award

The Drama League Awards, created in 1922, honor distinguished productions and performances both on Broadway and Off-Broadway, in addition to recognizing exemplary career achievements in theatre, musical theatre, and directing.

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Ed Stoppard

Edmund Stoppard (born 16 September 1974) is an English actor.

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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Habima Theatre

The Habima Theatre (תיאטרון הבימה Te'atron HaBima, lit. "The Stage Theatre") is the national theatre of Israel and one of the first Hebrew language theatres.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601.

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945, an attempt to implement its "final solution" to the Jewish question.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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John Malkovich

John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor.

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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre.

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Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play

The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre.

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Laurence Olivier Awards

The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply The Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London.

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Longacre Theatre

The Longacre Theatre is a Broadway theater at 220 West 48th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.

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Matt Harrington (actor)

Matt Harrington (born November 17, 1981) is an American stage actor, best known for his work in the Broadway production of Matilda the Musical, in which he replaced Tony Award winner Gabriel Ebert in the role of Mr.

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Mohel

A (מוֹהֵל, Ashkenazi pronunciation, plural: מוֹהֲלִים, מוֹהֲלָא, "circumciser") is a Jewish man trained in the practice of, the "covenant of male circumcision".

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National Theatre Live

National Theatre Live is an initiative operated by the Royal National Theatre in London.

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Neil Austin (lighting designer)

Neil Austin is an English lighting designer.

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New York Drama Critics' Circle

The New York Drama Critics' Circle is made up of 21 drama critics from daily newspapers, magazines and wire services based in the New York City metropolitan area.

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Outer Critics Circle Awards

The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway.

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Passover Seder

The Passover Seder is a ritual feast at the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover.

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Patrick Marber

Patrick Albert Crispin Marber (born 19 September 1964) is an English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter.

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Play (theatre)

A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Playbill

Playbill is an American monthly magazine for theatergoers.

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Pogrom

A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews.

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Princess of Wales Theatre

The Princess of Wales Theatre is a 2,000-seat live theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Richard Hudson (stage designer)

Richard Hudson (born 9 June 1954) is a Zimbabwean stage designer best known for his work for The Lion King, which won him the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existential tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. Leopoldstadt (play) and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are plays by Tom Stoppard and Tony Award-winning plays.

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Sam Hoare (actor)

Simon Patrick Douro Hoare (born 27 June 1981), known by the stage-name Sam Hoare, is a British actor and director known for his role as rower Dickie Burnell, alongside Matt Smith, in BBC One Olympic drama Bert and Dickie (2012).

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Sara Topham

Sara Topham (born 1976) is a Canadian actress.

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Sebastian Armesto

Sebastian Felipe Xavier Fernández-Garcia Armesto (born 3 June 1982) is an English film, television and theatre actor.

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Seth Numrich

Seth Numrich (born January 19, 1987) is an American stage, television, and film actor.

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Sonia Friedman

Sonia Friedman (Sonia Anne Primrose Freedman; born April 1965) is a British West End and Broadway theatre producer.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The Jewish Chronicle

The Jewish Chronicle (The JC) is a London-based Jewish weekly newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British news magazine focusing on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The U.S. and the Holocaust

The U.S. and the Holocaust is a 2022 three-part documentary miniseries about the United States' response to the Holocaust.

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Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl (2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist, lawyer, writer, playwright and political activist who was the father of modern political Zionism.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born italic, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play

Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play is an award for outstanding costume design of a play.

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Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play has been given since 1960.

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The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play.

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Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play for outstanding Lighting design of a play.

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Tony Award for Best Play

The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, an Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award given to the best new (non-musical) play on Broadway, as determined by Tony Award voters.

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Tony Award for Best Scenic Design in a Play

Tony Award for Best Scenic Design in a Play is an award for outstanding set design of a play.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Travesties

Travesties is a 1974 play by Tom Stoppard. Leopoldstadt (play) and Travesties are plays by Tom Stoppard and Tony Award-winning plays.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.

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WhatsOnStage.com

WhatsOnStage.com is a London-based website that provides information about, and offers tickets for, theatrical performances in the United Kingdom.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Wyndham's Theatre

Wyndham's Theatre is a West End theatre, one of two opened by actor/manager Charles Wyndham (the other is the Criterion Theatre).

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Yahrzeit candle

A yahrzeit candle, also spelled yahrtzeit candle or called a memorial candle, (נר נשמה, ner neshama, meaning "soul candle"; יאָרצײַט ליכט, meaning "anniversary candle") is a type of candle that is lit in memory of the dead in Judaism.

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Yasmin Paige

Yasmin Paige (born 1991 or 1992) is an English actress.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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Zionism

Zionism is an ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe.

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76th Tony Awards

The 76th Tony Awards recognized the achievements in Broadway productions during the 2022–23 season.

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See also

2020 plays

Plays about the Holocaust

Plays by Tom Stoppard

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldstadt_(play)

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