3 hours
1 intermission

After the triumph of The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard returned to Broadway in Fall 2007 with a new play, Rock 'N' Roll.

Rock 'N' Roll unfolds over the 20 years between the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989 as Stoppard explores the significance of rock music as a symbol of both personal and political freedom along with its accompanying risks. The play's double perspective focuses on a Czech freedom fighter while also tracing three generations in the family of a Cambridge professor, a Marxist philosopher who resolutely clings to his faith in Communism. The play brims with Stoppard's well-known eloquence and wit, and is filled with the sounds of The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, The Doors, Grateful Dead, U2, and Pink Floyd.

Produced by Bob Boyett & Sonia Friedman Productions, Ostar Enterprises, Roger Berlind, Tulchin/Bartner and Jam Theatricals
In association with Lincoln Center Theater

With Brian Cox, Sinead Cusack, Rufus Sewell, Nicole Ansari, Alice Eve

• By

  Tom Stoppard

• Directed By

  Trevor Nunn

• Sets By

  Robert Jones