Ethel Barrymore theatre, New YorkThere probably isn't a more dazzlingly cerebral play of the last 50 years than Tom Stoppard's 1993 masterpiece. Its spry apothegms come as thick and fast as its ideas, but if there's a single line to be seized on in this show, a Broadway reprisal of the 2009 London run, it's the realisation that "it's wanting to know that makes us matter". More interesting and important than knowledge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AM on April 13, 2011