“Da, da!” when translated as “Yes, yes!” is a fittingly celebratory salutation to greet the sparkling and incisive revival of Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties” which has arrived at the American Airlines Theatre after shutting up shop following a successful run on London’s West End. Now, with the leading players intact, it is Broadway’s turn for a share of spring madness — Stoppard style! Aren’t we lucky?
Anyone pondering the wisdom of reviving this play in the current moment can simply hang on as we count the ways that a piece Stoppard wrote as a dazzling wunderkind still in his thirties continues to illuminate our untethered times with whiplash accuracy.
Review — Travesties — BN+ — Tom Hollander — Peter McDonald — Seth Numrich — Scarlett Strallen — Sara Topham — Opal Alladin — Patrick Kerr — Patrick Marber — Tom Stoppard — Tristan Tzara — James Joyce — Lenin — Tony Award — The Importance of Being Earnest — Finnegans Wake — Dadaist — Henry Carr — Oscar Wilde — Algernon — Tom Haley — Dadaist movement — John Gielgud — Ricky Gervais — Dudley Moore — Dan Butler — Marxist
