Review: ‘Travesties' at Plays
Tom Stoppard's plays are still the gold standard for brilliance: funnier than Shaw, weightier than Wilde. His 1974 Travesties is a supersmart, super-theatrical tour de force challenging both actors and audiences, and plucky little Plays and Players sometimes meets that challenge and sometimes doesn't, but it's well worth a look. It's a fact that during the Great War, James Joyce, Tristan Tzara, and Vladimir Lenin wer…