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Locking down Leopoldstadt: what happened when the West End closed overnight

by Claire Armitstead

Tom Stoppard's new play was enjoying a sold-out run when venues closed. Its producer, Sonia Friedman, recalls how the crisis unfolded Leopoldstadt in limbo: Tom Stoppard, Patrick Marber and other crew members interviewed Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt was just beginning its eighth sold-out week at Wyndham's theatre in London's West End when the order came through that it was shutting down. Greeted as a late-period maste…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 3:48am on June 14, 2020