Broadway Play Leopoldstadt Will Stream on National Theatre at Home

Opening in London's West End to critical acclaim in early 2020, the play had to scrap a planned extension due to the industry shut down and returned in late 2021 for a further 12-week engagement. Both runs completely sold out with the play winning the Olivier Award for Best New Play. 

Now playing at Broadway's Longacre Theatre for a limited engagement, the play was filmed in 2021 with the West End cast and will join the streaming platform in the coming weeks.

Here's all we know about Leopoldstadt and how to stream the play:

Set in Vienna, the play takes its title from the Jewish quarter. This passionate drama of love and endurance begins in the last days of 1899 and follows one extended family deep into the heart of the 20th century. Full of his customary wit and beauty, Stoppard’s late work spans fifty years of time over two hours.

Leopoldstadt was filmed live during its return engagement in London's West End as part of The National Theatre's NTLive program. Streaming rights have been negotiated for the filmed production, which will be added to the theatre's streaming platform "National Theatre at Home" during the 2022 winter season for streaming in the UK and Ireland. Global streaming dates are also expected later in 2023.

Leopoldstadt recently opened on Broadway to rave reviews. Charles Isherwood of the Wall Street Journal said: "The theater season is just aborning, but it is virtually inconceivable that it will produce anything superior to Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt." An intimate, multigenerational drama about a Jewish family in Vienna, set against the tumultuous first half of the 20th century, the play-inexpressibly moving, unavoidably devastating-ranks among Mr. Stoppard's greatest works, which is a considerable achievement given his status as one of our pre-eminent living playwrights."

Leopoldstadt's creative team includes scenic design by Tony Award winner Richard Hudson (The Lion King, La Bête), costume design by Brigitte Reiffenstuel, lighting design by three-time Tony Award winner Neil Austin (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Company, Travesties), sound and original music by Tony Award winner Adam Cork (Red, Travesties), video design by Isaac Madge, movement by Emily Jane Boyle, and hair, wig & makeup design by Campbell Young & Associates. 

London’s National Theatre launched "National Theatre at Home" in 2020 as an on-demand streaming service featuring a number of productions filmed as part of its National Theatre Live program. Among the titles on the platform are Tom Hiddleston's Coriolanus, Medea with Helen McCrory, Mosquitos with Olivia Colman, and Amadeus, starring Adam Gillen and Lucian Msamati.