Tom Stoppard's Rock 'N' Roll Set for Broadway Transfer

According to Variety, Tom Stoppard's acclaimed new play Rock 'N' Roll is Broadway-bound.

The play will be brought to Broadway in the fall by Boyett Ostar (The History Boys, Coram Boy) and Sonia Friedman.  A theatre and casting will be announced.

Rock 'N' Roll, which played the Royal Court as part of the theatre's 50th anniversary season, is now running at the Duke of York's Theatre through February 25th.  It is currently nominated for a number of Olivier Awards, including Best Play (it previously won an Evening Standard Award as Best Play).  The production stars Rufus Sewell and Sinead Cusack.

Rock 'N' Roll is set in '60s Czechoslovakia, as a young student named Jan and his Cambridge mentor deal with the repressions of a rigid Communist regime - and seek freedom in the rock music of the title.

Stoppard's other plays include The Real Thing, Arcadia, Travesties, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia, currently receiving a production at Lincoln Center.

Photo of Tom Stoppard by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.