Now nominated for FOUR TONY AWARDS including Best Revival of a Play, Best Actor in a Play (Tom Hollander), Best Director of a Play (Patrick Marber) and Best Sound Design of a Play (Adam Cork).
Roundabout's dazzling new production of Travesties, Tom Stoppard's Tony Award-winning Best Play, has arrived - and The New York Times says it's "ridiculously entertaining." An artist, a writer and a revolutionary collide in this "giddy, head-spinning triumph" (Entertainment Weekly), a kaleidoscopic thrill-ride through the worlds of art and revolution in 1917 Switzerland...and in the maze of one man's memory.
This "knock-the-wind-out-of-you magnificent revival" (New York Magazine) is "an uproarious work of art, impeccably directed by Patrick Marber" (Newsday). 2017 Olivier nominee Tom Hollander leads the cast, and he is "marvelous" (Time Out New York).
Travesties. New York Stage Review says it's "possibly the only perfect production now occupying a Broadway theater. Get there fast."
That about-face joke perfectly captures Stoppard's wry humor. But it also illustrates his back-handed way of questioning (or is it mocking?) his own artistic attempt to address the subject of war within the context of farce. What's funny about war; or, for that matter, what's funny about social revolution, which both claim human lives? Even when the artist dares to grapple with such a question, doesn't it all seem like, well, a Dadaist joke?
You don't have to enroll for a graduate degree to enjoy Tom Stoppard's simultaneously wacky and intellectual 1974 comedy, now being given its first-ever Broadway revival by the Roundabout Theater Company. That's largely due to the accessible nature of director Patrick Marber's rollickingly staged production, which garnered raves for its London stints at the Menier Chocolate Factory and the West End. The handy crib sheet provided in the program doesn't hurt either.
1975 | Broadway |
Broadway |
2017 | West End |
West End Revival West End |
2018 | Broadway |
Roundabout Theatre Company Revival Broadway |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2018 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Tom Hollander |
2018 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Travesties |
2018 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Tom Hollander |
2018 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Seth Numrich |
2018 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play | Travesties |
2018 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Tom Hollander |
2018 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Patrick Marber |
2018 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Travesties |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Patrick Marber |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Tom Hollander |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Travesties |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Play | Adam Cork |
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