“Look at what the spirit can do,” a jubilant Parks said in her acceptance speech, adding: “Theater is the great cure.” She praised director Kenny Leon and actors Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, saying “they played every night like there was no tomorrow.” Winner of best revival of a play was Suzan-Lori Parks’s riveting “Topdog/Underdog,” about two brothers forebodingly named Lincoln and Booth, locked in a contest of wills and still haunted by their parents’ abandonment when they were young. Patrick Marber, who helmed “Leopoldstadt,” won for best direction of a play. Stoppard, who did not discover his Jewish heritage until he was in his mid-50s, has said the play grew out of “self-reproach about seeing my life as a charmed life.” All four of his grandparents were killed by the Nazis.įrom the stage, Stoppard said Sunday night: “I’m teeming with emotions which a Chat bot wouldn’t begin to understand.'īrandon Uranowitz was named best featured actor in a play for his work in “Leopoldstadt,” where he played two roles, including Nathan, a family member who survived Auschwitz.

“Leopoldstadt” chronicles the lives of several generations of an extended Jewish family in Vienna before, during, and after the Holocaust.

Meanwhile, 85-year-old British playwright Tom Stoppard added another chapter to his legend as his sprawling, deeply personal “Leopoldstadt” was named best play, 55 years after he won his first Tony Award for “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.” (He also won three other Tonys, for “The Real Thing,” “Travesties,” and “The Coast of Utopia.”) Winner of best featured actress in a musical was Bonnie Milligan, for her hilarious performance as Kimberly’s loose-cannon, non-law-abiding Aunt Debra.

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