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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Go backstage on Tom Stoppard's gripping new Holocaust play, 'Leopoldstadt', with Canadian Broadway star Caissie Levy
Description: As the world prepares to mark the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht on Nov. 9, a new play on Broadway, Leopoldstadt, is reminding audiences what can happen to Jews when nationalism and antisemitism turn into genocide.
The production is deemed by many to be possibly the last written by legendary British playwright Tom Stoppard, now 85. The script is loosely autobiographical, as Stoppard's family fled Europe before the onset of the Holocaust, and Stoppard himself grew up not knowing about his true Jewish heritage.
While the play debuted in London in 2020, it moved to Broadway in Sept. 2022. Acting...