Mastering "Arcadia"
How actors navigate big ideas in the Broadway revival of Stoppard’s play Early in Arcadia, Tom Stoppard's beguiling mashup of academic one-upsmanship, fractals, Lord Byron, landscape gardening, Fermat's last theorem, duels, chaos theory and a handful of other matters, a 19th-century tutor named Septimus Hodge stares at a tortoise that lives in the country house where [...]