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Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL HonFBA (born Tomáš Sträussler, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays.
Jul 4, 2024 · Tom Stoppard, Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter whose work is marked by verbal brilliance, ingenious action, and structural dexterity. His notable plays included Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Arcadia. He also cowrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Shakespeare in Love.
Feb 22, 2021 · Tom Stoppard’s Charmed and Haunted Life. A new biography enables us to see beneath the intellectual dazzle of the playwright’s work. By Anthony Lane. February 22, 2021. Stoppard’s plays...
Oct 2, 2022 · More than fifty years later, Stoppard, a master of meta-theatrics, could be forgiven for feeling a touch of the Rosencrantzes. His newest play, “Leopoldstadt,” opened in London in January ...
Sep 7, 2022 · Sept. 7, 2022. DORSET, England — Long before he became the august Sir Tom Stoppard, hailed by some as the greatest British playwright since Shakespeare, Stoppard was a teenage journalist in...
Nov 28, 2022 · Tom Stoppard Fears the Virus of Antisemitism Has Been Reactivated. By David Marchese. “There are lines in the play,” says Tom Stoppard, thinking back to a few years ago, when he was working...
Oct 2, 2022 · O n the day of his mother’s funeral in 1996, the playwright Tom Stoppard had a little spat with his stepfather Kenneth, the man who married his widowed mother in India and took her and her two...
Oct 24, 2020 · Tom Stoppard has written some of the most important plays of the past 50 years. These challenging works each receive detailed analysis here.
Tom Stoppard was knighted in 1997. He lives in London. His latest plays include Heroes (2005), Rock 'n' Roll (2006) and The Hard Problem (2015). He has written the screenplays for adaptations of Anna Karenina (2012) and Tulip Fever (2014), and co-wrote the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (1998). Read more.
May 27, 2023 · Tom Stoppard on Delving Into His Family History for ‘Leopoldstadt’ and What’s Next: “I Feel That I’m Getting Into Something New” The renowned playwright speaks about seeing himself in his new...
