The Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) is perhaps best known for his 1912 play, Professor Bernhardi. This “comedy in five acts” is set in 1900 and centers a Jewish doctor in Vienna—Professor Bernhardi. He fights with a priest about whether his patient, a young woman dying from abortion complications, should receive last rites or be spared the knowledge that she’s about to die. In 2019, Robert Icke adapted the work, setting his version in the era of social media and making the Jewish doctor female, now named Ruth Wolff. Having won rave reviews, the play begins its West End run. The brilliant Juliet Stevenson continues in the role of Wolff. —Jensen Davis