Arcadia

Every fall for the last three, we Tom Stoppard fans have been blessed. Following up on the wonderful productions of The Invention of Love by the Guthrie in 2001 and Hapgood last year by the Jungle, Theatre in the Round will present us Arcadia this month. Arcadia deals with the typical Stoppard theme of taking a thorny intellectual problem, in this case chaos theory, and using it as a metaphor for a discussion of love, landscape architecture, and the inability to know the past or predict the future. Don’t be intimidated—no math beyond a vague recollection of algebra is required. And while you’re contemplating the unknowable, don’t forget to laugh, because Stoppard is also the wittiest playwright since Wilde.
Theatre in the Round, 245 Cedar Ave., (612) 333-3010, www.theatreintheround.org