Love, Revolution, Music

Rock ‛n’ Roll

Four-time Tony Award winner Tom Stoppard returns to the Alley with Rock ‛n’ Roll, winner of London Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play. It’s August 1968, and Russian tanks are rolling into Prague. Jan, the Czech student, lives for rock music, Max, the English professor, lives for Communism, and Esme, the flower child, is high. By 1990, the tanks are rolling out, the Stones are rolling in and idealism has hit the wall. Stoppard's sweeping and passionate play spans two countries, three generations and 22 turbulent years, at the end of which, love remains — and so does rock 'n' roll. “Tom Stoppard’s astounding new work is funny, wise and triumphant,” says New York Magazine.
Recommended for mature audiences.

"Cornucopia of wit, passion, and ideas...Stunning...Provocative"
Houston Chronicle

Read the Houston Chronicle's Zest cover story interview with Tom Stoppard, Politics, passion fuel Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll.

Gregory Boyd and Todd Waite on KUHF’s The Front Row discuss Rock ‘n’ Roll. Go here.

Read more about Stephen Gabis, Alley Dialect Coach for Rock ‘n’ Roll, who made his Alley debut in Journey’s End. Broadway credits include The 39 Steps, The Farnsworth Invention and 110 in the Shade.

Neuhaus Stage Season Sponsor Randall H. Jamail