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Faye Castelow in Best Play Tony Award winner "Leopoldstadt" on Broadway

By Sarah LaDuke

Published June 16, 2023 at 11:45 AM EDT

Faye Castelow (Gretl) and Colleen Litchfield (Hanna) in Leopoldstadt

This past Sunday at the 76th Annual Tony Awards, Tom Stoppard’s play, “Leopoldstadt,” won 4 trophies - including Best Play and Best Direction of a Play for Patrick Marber. In 2020, “Leopoldstadt” won the Olivier Award for Best New Play for its West End run.

Set in Vienna, the play takes its title from the Jewish quarter. This passionate drama of love and endurance begins in the last days of 1899 and follows one extended family deep into the heart of the 20th century.

Faye Castelow plays Gretl and she joins us to talk about her character and her connection to this show.

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Sarah LaDuke

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.

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