Artist Descending a Staircase
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Tom Stoppard’s 'Artist Descending a Staircase' arrived on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre in 1989 as a brilliant, structurally dazzling, and intellectually fierce mystery comedy exploring the nature of modern art, perception, and lifelong loyalty. The narrative adapts Stoppard's celebrated radio play into a unique theatrical landscape, utilizing a complex, non-linear nested flashback structure that moves backward and forward across sixty years between 1914 and 1972, tracking three elderly bohemian avant-garde artists in London who have shared a house for decades as they attempt to decipher whether one of them murdered their companion, who fell down a staircase under mysterious circumstances. Directed by Tim Luscombe, the production starred Harold Innocent, John McMartin, and Paxton Whitehead.
