The Huntington has revealed casting and a creative team for its upcoming production of Tom Stoppard's Tony-winning play Leopoldstadt. Performances run September 12-October 13 at the Boston theatre, with Carey Perloff at the helm.
The cast will feature Samuel Adams, Firdous Bamji, Sarah Corey, Anna Theoni Digiovanni, Samuel Douglas, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh, Rachel Felstein, Rebecca Gibel, Phyllis Kay, Adrianne Krstansky, Brenda Meaney, Nael Nacer, Anna Slate, Mishka Yarovoy, and Joshua Chessin-Yudin; with Elijah Ditkoff, Mae Grimley, Holden King-Farbstein, Golda Munzer, Quinn Murphy, Hannah Nocon, Simonne Stern, and Elias Wettengel.
Rounding out the company are understudies Tony Estrella, Jennie Israel, David Keohane, Sarah Oakes Muirhead, Lily Narbonne, Jacob Schmitt, and Jackie Scholl.
After closing at The Huntington, Leopoldstadt will run at Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theater Company November 30-December 29.
Set over several decades, beginning in 1899 Vienna, Leopoldstadt follows the lives of a singular extended Jewish family into the mid-20th century in an exploration of the human condition, legacy, and resilience. The production premiered in the West End in 2020 before transferring for a 2022 Broadway run, where it received four Tony Awards including Best Play.
“My mother was a Viennese refugee who fled the Nazis in March 1938, so Stoppard’s gorgeous and heartbreaking play has enormous resonance for me personally,” director Perloff said in a statement. “I’m honored that The Huntington is giving me the chance to stage the first American production, after my very happy time in Boston last year with The Lehman Trilogy. Leopoldstadt is a play about a complicated Jewish family, and about the choices we make and fail to make in our attempts to survive and to preserve our culture. It is also Stoppard’s most deeply personal play, in which he reckons with the impact of his own Jewish heritage on his life and work, and he will be a crucial part of our collaboration at The Huntington. We are both looking forward to this experience enormously.”
The upcoming production will also feature scenic design by Ken MacDonald (A Thousand Splendid Suns), costume design by Alex Jaeger (Prayer for the French Republic), lighting design by Robert Wierzel (The Lehman Trilogy), original music and sound design by Jane Shaw (The Art of Burning), projection design by Yuki Izumihara (desert in), wig and makeup design by Tom Watson (Spamalot), movement by Daniel Pelzig, and dramaturgy by Charles Haugland and Drew Lichtenberg.
The associate director is Dori A. Robinson, the fight direction and intimacy coordinator is Jesse Hinson, and the dialect coach is Lee Nishri-Howitt. The production stage manager is Emily F. McMullen, and the stage managers are Deirdre Benson, Ashley Pitchford, and Kendyl Trott.
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