Review: ‘Leopoldstadt’ confronts tough questions about how we deal with the past

Review: ‘Leopoldstadt’ confronts tough questions about how we deal with the past

Tom Stoppard’s last play — the most prodigious of playwrights passed away in November of last year at the age of 88 — was also his most personal. He even inserted a fictionalized version of his younger self in a contemplative final scene, in which he wrestled intellectually and emotionally with the fact that his exceedingly fortunate life could so easily have been otherwise but for a fluke of historical fate. His family escaped Czechoslovakia th…