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Arcadia

The Bedlam cast of Arcadia.

Oct 27 – Dec 23, 2023
263 W 86th St, New York, NY 10024

“I feel irrationally, impossibly confident that Arcadia is the finest play written in my lifetime,” wrote the poet Brad Leithauser in a 2013 essay in The New Yorker. Moving the audience back and forth between the 19th century and the present day, Arcadia, written by the incomparable Tom Stoppard, addresses differences between classical and romantic thought, notions of time and truth, and the turbulent nature of love, sex, and jealousy. The Bedlam company’s production of Arcadia is directed by Eric Tucker, whom The Wall Street Journal named “Director of the Year” in 2014, and again in 2021. —Jeanne Malle