Rock ’n’ Roll ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

January 11, 2024

Reviews, Theatre

If ever there was a drama that delivered what it says on the tin, this is it. Rock ’n’ Roll suffuses the action and not just as background musical motif. The Tom Stoppard show premiered in 2006 at London’s Royal Court Theatre, predating his award-winning 2020 Leopoldstadt, which…

Danielle Goldstein

February 18, 2020

Reviews, Theatre

Leopoldstadt ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

February 18, 2020

Reviews, Theatre

My Stoppard journey began more than 40 years ago with the heady cocktail of verbal fireworks, erudition and wit that is his 1966 play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Now it seems it is to end, with what the great playwright suggests is his last play, as he navigates his own…

Danielle Goldstein

January 20, 2020

Interviews, Theatre

Interview: Patrick Marber

Danielle Goldstein

January 20, 2020

Interviews, Theatre

“I consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen,” said director Patrick Marber in an interview in 2015. Now he is directing a play from one of those “heroes”, Tom Stoppard – a play which might be…