| 单词 | Stoppard |
| 例句 | Chuck Stoppard never looked away from his game. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Chuck Stoppard asked from his bed, where he lay playing a video game. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Adapted by playwright Tom Stoppard, Wright's "Anna Karenina" takes place mostly in a theater setting and sees the title character more high-strung and less sympathetic than in previous incarnations. After Garbo, Leigh, no defining "Anna Karenina": Knightley 2012-11-16T14:55:55Z O, the prophetic soul of Mr. Stoppard, whose younger self has resurfaced as both the poet laureate and court jester of our addled age of confusion. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Lee worked on the book for seven years, interviewing not just Stoppard but more than 100 of his friends and colleagues. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard, speaking by telephone, called him “a comedian, as well as a tough cookie, a tough egg.” Tom Hollander Is Starring on Broadway, Poor Guy 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z As was also the case with Tom Stoppard’s Broadway hit “Leopoldstadt,” I sometimes felt in “Otto Frank” that the names of the camps and the litanies of loss were being dragooned into dramatic service illegitimately. At Under the Radar, Family Histories Bubble Up With No Easy Answers 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z “I watched the first series of ‘The Crown,’ which I thought was pretty good, but in the end, I began to see that there was what you might call dramatic license,” Stoppard said. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Storey’s transatlantic theatrical success put him in the same company as a generation of distinguished British playwrights that included Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. David Storey, British playwright, novelist who wrote ‘This Sporting Life,’ dies at 83 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z His father tried to follow them but never made it; Stoppard would later learn that his ship had been bombed and sunk. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Interviewed in The Observer of London after seeing the production there, the playwright Tom Stoppard said, “ ‘Being Harold Pinter’ knocked me out.” Theater Group in Belarus Is Forced Underground 2010-12-22T04:00:02Z I was fortunate enough to see my all-time favorite play, Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties,” in a magnificent revival by Roundabout Theater Company. Upon Further Review: Readers Tell Us What Deserved to Be Top 10 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard agreed to having his version scrapped. ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Makes Stage Debut in London 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Garner called Lee’s effort “astute and authoritative,” and said: “One reason this book entertains is that Stoppard has had an opinion about almost everything, and usually these opinions are witty.” Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z This at least is what Tom Stoppard believes. Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Stoppard, who was raised knowing little about Judaism, turned to friends while writing the play, seeking advice for a scene involving a bris and discussing Seders with Fran Lebowitz. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z And if Tom Stoppard’s 1982 play proves anything in its latest London revival, directed by Anna Mackmin and on view at the Old Vic through June 5, it’s that audiences like love a lot, too. Passion and Pain on the London Stage 2010-05-18T11:48:00Z As Mr. Stoppard and the fans who have grown up with him edge closer to the void, these early contemplations of being and nothingness resonate with a new quiver. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Stoppard doesn’t mine his autobiography for stories, though he certainly has enough material. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Stoppard has been central to the National and this play, juxtaposing private passions and iterated algorithims, stands out as arguably his finest. National Theatre gala: how would you celebrate the NT's 50th anniversary? 2013-01-30T17:23:38Z Mr. Stoppard toys with levels of reality, delusion and deception. Music Review: Something Borrowed and Something New 2011-05-08T22:19:30Z Stoppard and Stalker investigate the murder by interviewing some of the theatrical suspects. "See How They Run" is a comic whodunit that falls flat except for the dead guy 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z He previously directed the Stoppard plays "Jumpers" and "The Real Thing" on Broadway. Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' returns to Broadway 2010-12-29T19:52:08Z Of those, Edward Gorey and Tom Stoppard remain lasting, important, influences. John Hodgman: By the Book 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Previn said he recently composed several string pieces for Mutter and is eyeing a possible one-act opera that he would write for Fleming in collaboration with playwright Tom Stoppard. Andre Previn's 'Streetcar' opera will play L.A., but without him 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z There are more than flickers of the lightning wit and intellectual energy you associate with Mr. Stoppard. In Tom Stoppard's 'Hard Problem,' a Search for Certainty and Order 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Stoppard is a maniacal reader who collects first editions of writers he admires. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Hall found himself navigating his own relationship with Mr. Stoppard, saying that he was “totally intimidated” at first to be adapting the other playwright’s work. ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Makes Stage Debut in London 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z In his latest, Stoppard, 85, writes about a Jewish family in Vienna, following them from 1899 and through two world wars. More Than 60 Plays and Musicals to Take In This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z His last play as artistic director is Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem, which will premiere at the new Dorfman Theatre on 28 January. Theatre 2015: A look-ahead 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Every other year, at a botanical garden in the Chelsea neighborhood of London, the playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard throws a lavish, all-day party for his many friends and their families. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z In New York it is again being directed by Marber, who also directed the last Broadway production of a Stoppard work, a 2018 revival of “Travesties.” Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ Will Open on Broadway This Fall 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Stoppard, always up for intellectual badminton, posed the kind of questions that drive his play’s protagonist, Hilary, a research psychologist, to challenge the orthodoxy of her hard-science peers. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Never one to shy away from thorny topics, Tom Stoppard delves into the concept of consciousness in his latest play, which had its premiere in London in 2015. 72 Plays and Musicals to See This Fall and Beyond 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The house Stoppard shares with his third wife, the charming Sabrina Guinness, is exactly what you would expect: elegant, erudite, fey and library-quiet. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Because this nine-hour Tom Stoppard trilogy spanned decades of mid-19th-century Russian history, philosophy and culture, strong music was needed to bring cohesion to the narrative, which boldly jumped time periods and locales. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z The Roundabout Theatre Company said Wednesday the play joins its previously announced shows Donald Margulies' "Dinner with Friends" and Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing." Broadway's 'The Winslow Boy' to star Mastrantonio 2013-05-15T16:33:13Z Fifty-five years later, Stoppard is returning to New York with “Leopoldstadt,” a play inspired by his belated reckoning with his Jewish roots. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z When that city falls to the Japanese, they flee again, this time to India, with the father dying on the way, and remain there until 1945, when Mrs. Straussler meets and marries Major Kenneth Stoppard. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z And is there a consciousness more sportive and splendid than Tom Stoppard’s? 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z She cited her dozen collaborative experiences with playwright Tom Stoppard as an “extraordinary” privilege. She's stepping down from A.C.T., but Carey Perloff continues the fight for women's stories 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Stoppard said the situation in Belarus was bleak and there was more that the EU should be doing. Actors lobby David Cameron over plight of Belarusian political prisoners 2012-12-18T21:19:01Z Six years ago, New Yorkers fought for the chance to spend nine precious hours watching the late-imperial-age intellectuals of Tom Stoppard’s “Coast of Utopia” talk about revolution. Theater Review: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Newhouse 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z One reason this book entertains is that Stoppard has had an opinion about almost everything, and usually these opinions are witty. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Tom Stoppard’s historical whirligig, a semi-invented tale of a Zurich rendezvous between James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin and the Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara, ends its Broadway spin. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Stoppard, author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Arcadia and The Coast of Utopia, was speaking as he prepares to address the Prince's Teaching Institute summer school next week. Tom Stoppard in warning over decline of 'printed page' in education 2010-06-21T17:41:00Z It is also the title of Tom Stoppard’s 2020 Olivier Award-winning play, which opened on the West End shortly before the start of the pandemic. A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z In Tom Stoppard’s wildly erudite historical comedy, great men dash in and out of a Wildean romp loosely based on historical coincidence. 17 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Stoppard and Shaw do engage and perhaps that's why their plays seem to me so excellent and so rare. Why does theatre plus science equal poor plays? 2010-07-26T11:20:00Z With various nods to Pirandello, Tom Stoppard and Alan Ayckbourn — the last a British playwright known for his ingenious manipulations of dramatic structure and timing — Posner turns the Milton into confessional way station. Review | Sometimes, no sisters are better than ‘Three’ 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z His cousin Nathan tries to get through to Leo, speaking what Stoppard says is the essential line in the play: “You live as if without history, as if you throw no shadow behind you.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Director Jack O’Brien, who won Tony Awards for his direction of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” Tom Stoppard’s “The Coast of Utopia” and the musical “Hairspray,” is usually an adroit hand with large casts. Broadway's fall revivals: Why big stars can't make up for a lack of artistic vision 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Bill Murray is confronted by "this kind of Amazonian ghost goddess, spooky thing, and he goes, `This chick is toast,'" Stoppard said, with a delighted smile. 'Parade's End' keeps British TV invasion going 2013-02-22T19:09:13Z Stoppard himself, dodging puckishly, seems to get lost amid the facts. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z After Rock'n'Roll, his second Stoppard play, for which he won an Olivier award in 2006, Sewell not unreasonably expected more work offers to come his way. Rufus Sewell: almost famous 2013-03-30T09:00:00Z These positions, plus his unabashed relish for the nice clothes, cars and houses acquired with his commercial success, got Stoppard tagged as a conservative establishment figure. Review | ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life’ documents the professional successes and glamorous social life of a storied playwright 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z “They were all being very impressed by me,” Mr. Stoppard said. With Stoppard, Chance Always Plays a Role 2011-03-11T21:48:57Z More than 20 people were honored, included Tom Stoppard, the playwright, who accepted a prize named after Mike Nichols, the director with whom he often collaborated. Solange Knowles Receives Town Hall’s Lena Horne Prize 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Stoppard exclaims, like someone being shown forgotten photographs. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z COX Stoppard is devoted to ideas, like rock ’n’ roll changing Communism in Czechoslovakia, and you think, that’s fine, that’s a big notion. Just the Guys, Candid and Rugged 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z As Mr. Stoppard observed, the plays are marked by “the joyous freedom of Havel’s imagination.” Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z Now, a much-speculated connection between a Stoppard play and a direct-to-video “Lion King” entry has been confirmed by Salon, more than 15 years after its release. We just solved a major mystery in the "Lion King" franchise 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z “Basically, she was saying, enough already with the charmed life, you had this family, which you seem to have forgotten,” Stoppard said. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z An early criticism was that Stoppard’s playwriting lacked sufficient warmth and that the relentless cleverness could be fatiguing. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z It was presented to representatives from the Belarus Free Theatre by the playwright Sir Tom Stoppard. AUDIO: Tom Stoppard: Belarus 'an anomaly' 2011-03-25T08:28:51Z The note began with a line from Tom Stoppard’s play “The Real Thing,” which earned her her first Tony — “Happiness is equilibrium... shift your weight.” Main Course: ?I Was Never Beautiful? 2011-04-15T21:29:58Z Stoppard's quip-filled, pun-fuelled delivery provides a brighter tone than usual: the final apparition of Firs, the ancient retainer locked in the abandoned house, was greeted by some quarters of the audience as a hilarious oversight. The Cherry Orchard - review 2010-10-22T20:30:00Z The Real Thing Tom Stoppard’s examination of truth, fiction and romantic illusions. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 22-March 1: 'Confessions of a Mormon Boy' and more 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z One year ago, an artists' manifesto for Belarus was published, calling for free speech and signed by Stoppard, Ai Weiwei and, in one of his last public acts, Václav Havel. Actors lobby David Cameron over plight of Belarusian political prisoners 2012-12-18T21:19:01Z She described the politically active modern playwrights who fit into the second category, among them Tom Stoppard and Caryl Churchill, as “contemporary Shavians.” Kushner’s ‘The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide’ Finds a Niche at the Shaw Festival 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Stoppard is self-evidently a humane and decent writer, but I came out of the production seething at his callousness. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z Tom Stoppard returns to BBC with Ford Madox Ford adaptation Playwright's five-part BBC2 version of the first world war story Parade's End will be his first projects for corporation since 1970s. The BBC's MR James adaptation could be the ghost at the Christmas feast 2010-12-24T10:52:42Z By a significant margin, voters are favoring “Leopoldstadt,” a play by Tom Stoppard about how the Holocaust affected an assimilated and affluent Jewish family in Austria. Tony Predictions: Expect Wins for ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ and ‘Leopoldstadt’ 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z We had descended the sixty-odd blocks to see Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing,” at the Plymouth Theatre. What “Peanuts” Taught Me About Queer Identity 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z After finishing Rock'n'Roll, Stoppard became fascinated by the looting of the Baghdad Museum, but no workable plot or dialogue ignited. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z This dance to the music of time, set in a Derbyshire country house, is not just Tom Stoppard's best play, but one of the most compelling plays of the last 50 years. This week's new theatre 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z That evening, Stoppard publicly thanked Perloff for bringing him back so regularly and quipped that he enjoys what the English call “a special relationship” with A.C.T. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z It features three grotesques, monsters from a horror film who have somehow got existentially excluded from the main gory action, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's play. Film review: Trash Humpers 2010-06-17T22:35:00Z In a long career, 50 years and counting, Mr. Stoppard, 81, has written plays, radio plays and screenplays that have discoursed on everything from Dadaism to analytic philosophy to particle physics to early Pink Floyd. Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z He and Ms. Huston talked off camera about the playwright Tom Stoppard, then shot a scene in which Mr. Azenberg was more ruthless than he actually is. Television: ?Smash? on NBC, About Broadway, With Katharine McPhee 2012-01-19T17:14:32Z I paraphrase Tom Stoppard’s line from “The Real Thing”: “To marry an actor once is careless but twice is inexcusable.” Laurie Metcalf, the First Lady of American Theater 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z The current “Travesties” — which originated at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2016, before transferring to the West End — is the product of several subsequent decades of Mr. Stoppard’s revision and condensation. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z “A new writer, if he’s a great poet like Hofmannsthal, walks among us like a demigod,” Stoppard has a character say. Drama, in German, in the Shadow of ‘Leopoldtstadt’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z I ran into Tom Stoppard, who graciously paused for a 20-minute conversation about, among other things, the beauty of the wintry dusk in Jaipur. T Magazine: A Major Literary Festival Emerges in Jaipur, India 2012-03-05T18:15:10Z “I just wait for the day when you and others see through that,” Stoppard murmured. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Tom Hollander, who played the lead role in last year’s Broadway revival of Mr. Stoppard’s “Travesties,” remembered thinking “that we were trying to find the humanity sometimes between the lines.” Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Senility is a joy ride in the exultant, London-born revival of Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties,” which opened on Tuesday night at the American Airlines Theater. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z So the consensus remains that Stoppard is essentially a biographical dramatist, whose plays begin in the library, and that The Real Thing is a rare glimpse of the real him. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z Both attributes served him well in his associations with the Royal Shakespeare Company and with the British playwright Tom Stoppard, whose linguistically pyrotechnic work he performed many times. John Wood, Actor Known for Nimbleness, Dies at 81 2011-08-11T04:16:36Z Marber called the novel “an intense bee sting” for Stoppard, adding: “Tom is a ruthlessly truthful man in private.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z But ultimately, memory isn’t the capricious, fragmenting prism of classic Stoppard. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Byatt’s “Possession,” or Tom Stoppard’s best plays, texts that treat academic pursuit as something thrilling. Review | With ‘Gun Island,’ Amitav Ghosh turns global crises into engaging fiction 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Clearly she admires Stoppard no end — maybe a hair too much — but the expertise with which she’s assembled his bright materials is a testament to her own high and rightly esteemed gifts. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Stoppard was the wicket-keeper, stylish in enormous bright red Slazenger gloves. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z In a telephone interview the playwright Tom Stoppard said, “What I like about him is that he turns his hand — a very expert and sometimes inspired hand — to all manner of things.” Clive James Translates Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ 2012-10-07T20:07:16Z Yet neither Stoppard nor Beckett, as scripted here, seems sure of his stature, pre- or post-mortem. Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard, who won an Oscar for his screenplay for “Shakespeare in Love,” admires the split-second timing in Hollywood’s classic comedies like “It Happened One Night” or “His Girl Friday.” With Stoppard, Chance Always Plays a Role 2011-03-11T21:48:57Z Tom Stoppard’s elegant, cerebral, Olivier Award-winning saga follows generations of a comfortably assimilated Jewish family in Vienna from the end of the 19th century through the rise of the Nazis to a devastated postwar reckoning. What to See on Broadway in October 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Sir Nicholas's last play as NT artistic director is Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem, which will premiere at the new Dorfman Theatre on 28 January. Albarn adapts Alice in Wonderland 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z With his long gray hair in its characteristic tousle, Mr. Stoppard looks younger than his 73 years. With Stoppard, Chance Always Plays a Role 2011-03-11T21:48:57Z What does this have to do with Stoppard? We just solved a major mystery in the "Lion King" franchise 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z As Stoppard writes in program notes for the play, his mother rarely spoke of her own history. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Tom Stoppard is on his fifth straight day on the Belarus trail. The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z Yet Stoppard's most provocative stroke is to question whether the Cherry Orchard must necessarily end on a dying fall. The Cherry Orchard - review 2010-10-22T20:30:00Z “I think there’s a way of being consciously in denial, I guess, but also there’s a way of being unconsciously in denial,” Stoppard said. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z More than any previous Stoppard play — including the sprawling “Coast of Utopia” trilogy, a 9-hour dive into the Russian Revolution — “Leopoldstadt” is a group portrait, and one of uncommon density. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z She tells us that Stoppard, now 83, asked her to write this biography, and her respect and affection for him are evident throughout. Review | ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life’ documents the professional successes and glamorous social life of a storied playwright 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z So why don't we read Stoppard on Hare? Why don't playwrights write theatre reviews? | David Cote 2010-03-30T11:38:00Z Now 84, Tom Stoppard has led an enormous life. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The Leo character, Stoppard told me, was “written out of a kind of guilt.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z As with Stoppard and “Leopoldstadt,” “The Doctor” feels like something of a homecoming: a Viennese return for a contemporary play rooted in the world of yesterday. A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard had written the part of Carr — a historical figure who was a minor British consular official in the World War I era — specifically for him. John Wood, Actor Known for Nimbleness, Dies at 81 2011-08-11T04:16:36Z When “The Hard Problem” had its premiere, it was Mr. Stoppard’s first new play in nine years. Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The journalist helpfully added that this was because The Real Thing dramatises Stoppard's relationship with Felicity Kendal, who played the mistress of the fictional playwright in the London premiere. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z Beckett and Stoppard and even poor, average-haired Pinter may one day be more immortal than ever. Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z For the record, it is not Stoppard’s family that is portrayed in the play, but a prosperous fictional Austrian clan in Vienna. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z A friend of mine, a keen theatregoer, when invited to recent revivals of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine, politely declined, saying: "I saw them when they came out." Can you see the same play too many times? 2012-07-24T13:21:31Z On a previous visit, James told me that his friend Tom Stoppard had said of the attention James’s declining health brought: “This is marvelous! Don’t deny it, just go on enjoying it.” Clive James, a Tireless Polymath Who Led With His Wit 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Unlike the similarly themed “Arcadia,” Mr. Stoppard’s 1993 masterwork, “Indian Ink” often seems stuck on its big, splashy surface when you want it to dive into the depths. Tom Stoppard’s ‘Indian Ink’ Focuses on English Sisters 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The unguarded nature of their dialogue, with two devices recording their every word, was a testament to Perloff and Stoppard’s closeness. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The banter between Stoppard and Stalker creates much of the film's dead space because these scenes fail to move the thin plot forward nor do they develop the characters. "See How They Run" is a comic whodunit that falls flat except for the dead guy 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Stoppard has long been a tabloid fixture in England; the spotlight on his relationships sometimes became a searchlight. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z She first saw Crudup when she was 15 in a Broadway production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, which she now credits with confirming in her mind her acting ambitions. Alien: Covenant’s Katherine Waterston: ‘We live in hypersexualised yet totally prudish times’ 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Film, not drama, was his point of reference when a friend dared him, in his final year at King’s, to audition for a theater society production of Tom Stoppard’s “The Invention of Love.” From Lost Soul in London to Glory Off Broadway 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Howlers like that are few and far between, though, in a script credited to Tom Stoppard and Deborah Moggach, adapting her own novel, that faithfully follows the template for overripe period dramas. Review: ‘Tulip Fever’ Delivers a Wilted Period Piece 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Neatly employing Hannah and Bernard as his philosophical exponents, Stoppard commences his story as the Enlightenment slides into the chaos and disorder of the Romantic era. Strong cast and inspired staging command your attention in A Noise Within's 'Arcadia' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Affairs of the head and heart The Real Thing occupies a pivotal position in Stoppard's output. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard also played tribute to York, recalling his first meeting at the dawn of the 1960s with a woman who was to win a legion of male admirers. Susannah York, the gentle star of 1960s cinema, dies after battle against cancer 2011-01-16T00:50:23Z The kind of astonishment Stoppard’s provided us has changed over time. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The big Broadway producer was “fearsome,” as Stoppard put it. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z This “Anna Karenina,” scripted by British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard and set by Wright on a stylized Russian theater stage, seems a whirl of constant motion; Law’s Karenin is the still point within it. Jude Law: ‘thrilled’ to be part of ‘Anna Karenina’ 2012-11-16T23:22:13Z Tom Stoppard at the Barrymore Theater, where a revival of his play “Arcadia” opens this week. ArtsBeat: Arts & Leisure Preview: Tom Stoppard, the Strokes, Bradley Cooper and More 2011-03-11T21:01:19Z Is Stoppard surprised about the ascendancy of authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe? Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Their working relationship dates back to 1977 when they both appeared in Every Good Boy Deserves Favour by Sir Tom Stoppard. Knights welcomed on New York stage 2013-11-25T11:33:45Z The fellow Czech émigré Tom Stoppard is the Wilma’s signature playwright. A Philadelphia Theater Heading, and Sweating, in a New Direction 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z For the occasion, Times theater critic Charles McNulty caught up with Stoppard, who says that with his work he aims to “stretch your mind just a little bit.” Essential Arts & Culture: Stoppard's new play, L.A.'s Wrigley Field, Dudamel's best-ever L.A. Phil piece 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Those theatrical whirligigs gave way to less frantic works like “Arcadia,” “The Coast of Utopia” and “The Hard Problem,” in which characters unhurriedly talk, supported by Stoppard’s acquired confidence that his public will listen. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The adaptation from Tolstoy is by Tom Stoppard. More Alamo, and an "Anna Karenina" update 2011-06-08T16:47:05Z I think Philip Pullman and Tom Stoppard would be ideal table companions with him. Edelweiss, Edelweiss? Julie Andrews Loves Reading About 18th-Century Plant Hunters 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard is, as always, an adept craftsman. In Tom Stoppard's 'Hard Problem,' a Search for Certainty and Order 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The way the cricket bat taps a ball, and makes it sail an improbable distance, becomes, in Stoppard’s hands, a metaphor for writing. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Happily, there came — as a lovely dessert at the very end of the season — the revival of Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties.” Loving and Hating the Broadway Season: Our Critics Could Have Argued All Night 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Structured in part like a theatrical fugue, “Bach at Leipzig“ made a big splash for Moses, who was encouraged to write it by no less than playwright Tom Stoppard. Music rivals, Esperanto and new works on Seattle stages 2013-05-16T19:35:10Z Lee’s life of Stoppard starts with a chapter called “First Acts,” and is divided into five parts. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Sometimes I snuck into his bedroom to listen, to sink into the story's pillowy dangers and relish the cheek of Bennett giving Toad the voice of Tom Stoppard. Mal Peet's top 10 books to read aloud 2011-08-03T13:08:37Z As neither Stoppard nor Kendal have ever publicly spoken about their affair, did the leading man's declaration make him flinch? Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z Then Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia,” a Penguin edition of Sophocles, “The Three Theban Plays,” and two books by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “The Phenomenon of Man” and “Writings Selected.” Alice McDermott Is Reading ‘Frankenstein’ for the First Time 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z For a start, it gets Stoppard back on the box after 30 years. Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Ford Madox Ford is where it belongs ? on TV 2010-07-30T14:48:00Z For Mr. Stoppard, their impending doom is an occasion for a dazzling wordplay. Theater Review: ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,’ but Returned 2014-01-22T03:00:02Z Stoppard’s play, which is running through March at the Longacre Theater in New York, is one of the season’s most discussed productions. Drama, in German, in the Shadow of ‘Leopoldtstadt’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z In one scene, during a stakeout, Stoppard makes an excuse about having a dentist appointment to get a drink and get away from his partner. "See How They Run" is a comic whodunit that falls flat except for the dead guy 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard may sit comfortably among the great English playwrights, but as Mr. Leveaux said, “He thinks of himself first and foremost as an entertainer.” With Stoppard, Chance Always Plays a Role 2011-03-11T21:48:57Z The conventional wisdom is that Stoppard discovered emotion in his 1982 play “The Real Thing.” With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The script, by Tom Stoppard, was dense and complicated, she explained, and Mr. Stoppard, who was on the set a lot, was fussy about having his lines spoken the way he wrote them. Benedict Cumberbatch Acts Clever Again in ‘The Imitation Game’ 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z But the references to Mr. Kushner and Mr. Stoppard better suggest her ambitions for “In the Wake.” Pushing the Spotlight Away From Herself 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z And who better to deal with the agony and ecstasy of such a quest than Mr. Stoppard? Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’ Is a Mind-Body Gabfest 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z This is reasonable casting since Mr. Stoppard’s play -– in which two easily confused minor characters from “Hamlet” ponder the nature of life and death -– could well be called “The Philosophy Boys.” ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Aging, Acting and Acting Up 2011-07-15T16:56:32Z On my last night I saw “Arcadia,” Tom Stoppard’s much-produced literary detective story, at the Gate, which is known chiefly for producing European and American classics. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z Stoppard wrote another play first, “The Hard Problem,” about human consciousness and the question of whether people can be genuinely good. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Stoppard: I think it was an interesting alternative. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Would we have had Stoppard's Arcadia, Bennett's The History Boys and Churchill's Love and Information if these playwrights had been required to launch them, cold, in the West End? Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z He presided, Stoppard said, “like a 1930s master from a prep school.” ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z At first, Stoppard resisted the idea that his work should have a moral or political message — “the whiff of social application.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Nor was Stoppard’s being male something she worried a lot about. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Stoppard calls her "the little dynamo", but this is understating the matter. The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z The very funny Swamp Juice stops off at the Parabola in Cheltenham and Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing plays the main house at Oxford Playhouse. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-06-22T15:56:03Z Stephenson revealed he is also in discussions with the playwright Sir Tom Stoppard. Cardiac Arrest creator Jed Mercurio to make BBC2 police drama 2011-03-15T18:14:29Z Just as Stoppard sometimes gets carried away with his intellectualizing, so too does Moses. Bewigged ambitions in Taproot’s ‘Bach at Leipzig’ 2013-05-23T20:25:47Z Stoppard is reported to be hopeful that the BBC2 drama will restore Ford's reputation, placing him alongside authors like DH Lawrence and Evelyn Waugh in the pantheon of early 20th century greats. Tom Stoppard returns to BBC with Ford Madox Ford adaptation 2010-07-29T15:52:00Z British playwright Tom Stoppard and American David Mamet have both re-worked works by the humble, often bespectacled Chekhov, and women revered him for giving them a strong voice by creating complex female characters. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z The closest thing Stoppard gives us to a conventional protagonist is Hermann Merz, an affluent textile manufacturer who has largely shed the traditions of his rag-peddling forebears and entered high society. A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Stoppard’s “Inspector Hound,” a sendup wandering into the surreal of the sort of British detective mystery epitomized by Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” is pretty much a perfect bit of craftsmanship. Playwrights get last word in delightful ‘Critic’ and ‘Real Inspector Hound’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z As usual, Mr. Stoppard is in firm control of his themes and his language, which are inseparable. Tom Stoppard’s ‘Indian Ink’ Focuses on English Sisters 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z While The River marks West's debut at the Royal Court, he has been in a production that originated there, joining Tom Stoppard's Rock'n'Roll for its transfer to the Duke of York's Theatre in late 2006. Dominic West to star in new Jez Butterworth play 2012-08-23T12:35:07Z Stoppard’s conceit takes the critics’ involvement in their work to Pirandellian lengths. Playwrights get last word in delightful ‘Critic’ and ‘Real Inspector Hound’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z The 40-minute result is as talky as a Stoppard play but far less sparkling or affecting. A Day of Divas 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z It is also the word that turns “Leopoldstadt,” the harrowing new Tom Stoppard play that opened on Sunday at the Longacre Theater, from a domestic comedy into a Greek drama. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z It seems fitting that, for once in a Stoppard work, words aren’t what leave the most lasting impression. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Stoppard's play, his first at the National since 2002, centres around a young psychology researcher at odds with her colleagues at a brainscience institute. Theatre 2015: A look-ahead 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z The fall rotation included plays whose authors illustrate how broadly the company defines “classic”: Tom Stoppard, Molière, Jean Genet. How Pasadena's A Noise Within theater troupe builds a future on the past 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “Tom Stoppard” is every bit as informed and intelligent as any Stoppard play. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Which would suggest they haven’t absorbed the lesson of Mr. Stoppard’s play. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z "Tom Stoppard is often characterised as a dramatist who mixes intimidating cleverness with extravagant showmanship," wrote suave freelance hack Leon Benjamin in a digest of theatre reviews for the Guardian website. What to say about ... The Real Thing 2010-04-23T14:48:00Z It was already clear that Mr. Stoppard was a dramatist of a singular intellectual stripe, with his academic antics and cascading epigrams, suggesting a genius prankster run amok in an Oxbridge library. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Photograph: Murdo Macleod Maybe Tom Stoppard and Ken Follett would disapprove of using a blog to talk about their respective bugbears – the decline in the printed word and of writing standards. Anne Fine scores a perfect pen in Follett's book 2010-06-22T16:12:00Z Mr. Stoppard and Mr. Wright offer “Anna Karenina” and its heroine to the gods of melodrama, who receive her gladly. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z Roundabout is also reviving two celebrated stage works about marriages in crisis—Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing and Donald Margulies’ Dinner With Friends. New Broadway Season Has Something for Everyone 2013-08-28T15:15:27Z The Stoppard play is the first new stage work by the acclaimed writer since “Rock ’n’ Roll,” which premiered at the Royal Court in London in 2006 and on Broadway in 2007. ArtsBeat: Hytner’s Final Season at National Theater to Include New Stoppard Play 2014-03-21T02:08:45Z Unlike some playwrights Mr. Stoppard attends rehearsals as much as possible. With Stoppard, Chance Always Plays a Role 2011-03-11T21:48:57Z Yes, it's that kind of script, adapted by Christopher Hampton from his play "The Talking Cure," which follows the Tom Stoppard method of boiling down a significant but poorly understood historical episode into well-made drama. Knightley and Fassbender steam up "Dangerous Method" 2011-09-09T22:10:00Z The sections that detail Stoppard’s research for his plays can seem endless, as if Lee has dragged us into the library with him and given us a stubby pencil. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Stoppard’s early plays, which include “Jumpers” and “Travesties,” are acrobatic comedies of ideas in which the debate is moderated by a Beckettian sensibility that takes mischievous delight in knowing that no side can ultimately prevail. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z In Stoppard’s play, there’s a moment when Jeremy Irons’s character comes to a realization. What “Peanuts” Taught Me About Queer Identity 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z His other stage roles include the elderly poet A. E. Housman in Mr. Stoppard’s drama “The Invention of Love” with the Royal National Theater in 1997. John Wood, Actor Known for Nimbleness, Dies at 81 2011-08-11T04:16:36Z “I don't think I've ever spent half an hour in my life doing research,” said playwright Tom Stoppard when asked about the impressive erudition behind his intellectually dazzling comedies. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Mathematics, landscape architecture and Romantic poetry collide in this brilliant play by Tom Stoppard. 5 romantic things to do this weekend 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z “I was very impressed by that,” Lee said of Stoppard’s minimal demand. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z After “Leopoldstadt” opened in London, Stoppard said that he was deluged with messages. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z “It’s different from most awards in that it’s something which one is receiving from one’s peers: fellow writers,” Mr. Stoppard said backstage. Solange Knowles Receives Town Hall’s Lena Horne Prize 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Restoration comedy seems to be making a comeback with Sheridan's The Critic recently paired with Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound at Chichester. This week's new theatre 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Rosemary Harris, 87, currently starring off-Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s “Indian Ink” at the Roundabout Theatre Company. Ageless on stages: Actors in their 80s Mr. Wright’s next project, “Anna Karenina,” from a Tom Stoppard adaptation, returns him to his familiar turf of literary cinema. Finding an Original Heroine 2011-04-02T03:13:01Z Mr. Stoppard does not bring Shostakovich directly into the picture, but Mr. Previn does, with uncanny takeoffs on the master’s music woven into more generic writing. Music Review: Something Borrowed and Something New 2011-05-08T22:19:30Z All the while, text — credited to the dancers, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard and Ms. Peña — reveal the performers’ thoughts. Review: At American Realness Festival, Mirrored Movements and a Nearly Naked Yvonne Meier 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Sir Tom Stoppard, the screenwriter who adapted the books, completed the haul by winning won the writer's prize at the ceremony at 1 Whitehall Place in central London. Parade's End marches away with four Broadcasting Press Guild awards 2013-03-14T13:40:28Z Lee also rejects the view that the philosophical debates in Stoppard’s plays are mere window dressing. Review | ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life’ documents the professional successes and glamorous social life of a storied playwright 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Across the Thames, another actor, also much beloved here, has been bringing exultant life to another of Mr. Stoppard’s unwitting equivocators. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Unlike many another writer, Tom Stoppard has enjoyed a rich, inimitable, event-filled life that begs to be told and her generous, event-packed volume is the proof. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Variations on those unsettling words — both explicit and unspoken — echo through the wrenching final scene of Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt,” which opened Wednesday night at Wyndham’s Theater in London. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z “It got an instant standing ovation,” Mr. Stoppard said, “so I think Disney owes me one.” ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Makes Stage Debut in London 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Stoppard based his play on an 1842 Viennese comedy that was later adapted -- twice -- by Thornton Wilder, the latter adaptation of which became the basis for the musical, “Hello, Dolly!” Few sparks in 'On the Razzle' at Theatre West 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z By evening’s end, you’ll be surprised by the iridescent clarity that has emerged from Mr. Stoppard’s artfully chaotic assemblage of rampant speculation, literary texts, great-man biography parodies, legal documents, political tracts and rude schoolboy japes. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Here anyway was Mr. Stoppard’s self on a recent weekday afternoon in a Lincoln Center lobby, all 6’1” of it elegantly folded into a cafe chair. Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z As a career-launcher for Stoppard, though, it remains astonishing — a youthful prank bursting with theatrical mischief and literary flair. ‘Rosencrantz’ review: Clever hybrid stager, thy name is Posner 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z “I remember very clearly saying to my mother, ‘Well, how Jewish were we?’ and she didn’t come clean at all,” Stoppard told me. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z In his early 20s, Tom Stoppard — rather like young Aladdin and his lamp — told his mother, “I’d like to be famous!” It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Lee disputes the conventional wisdom that only with “The Real Thing” in 1982 did Stoppard start to plumb human feelings. Review | ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life’ documents the professional successes and glamorous social life of a storied playwright 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z First of all, Stoppard does a landslide of topical research before he begins to write. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z The idea of a Stoppard-"Lion King" connection was just too rich and funny to be ignored. We just solved a major mystery in the "Lion King" franchise 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z “It made her very uneasy, and she thought there was surely some way I could do these interviews without letting on that my name wasn’t really Stoppard, and that kind of thing.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The result allows Mr. Stoppard to effect his own Wildean and Joycean riffs on the material while at the same time naming the two women in “Travesties” for the young heroines of Wilde’s play. Review: ‘Travesties’ and Finding New Depth in Stoppard 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z "There's a wonderful richness to the language and a beauty, which I think is the brilliance of Tom Stoppard, and also this very beautiful language of Ford Madox Ford," said director Susanna White. 'Parade's End' keeps British TV invasion going 2013-02-22T19:09:13Z Like Tom Stoppard’s minor “Hamlet” characters grabbing the spotlight in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” the housemaids are the stars here, portraying all the characters. Perspective | In London, the shows go on — but apathy is unmasked 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z We may laugh at many of these observations; they’re written by Mr. Stoppard, who does such dialogue better than anyone alive. ‘The Real Thing,' With Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Opens on Broadway 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard, always a tireless self-editor, has tweaked and massaged “The Hard Problem” since I first saw it at the National Theater in London. Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’ Is a Mind-Body Gabfest 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Stoppard bristled ever so slightly at the suggestion that “The Hard Problem” might have something to say about the emotional arc of his playwriting career. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Stoppard wonders this week if the emphasis on online communication is seriously damaging our children's relationship with books. Anne Fine scores a perfect pen in Follett's book 2010-06-22T16:12:00Z On a recent trip to London, I attempted to arrange an interview with Caryl Churchill, who alongside Tom Stoppard is considered the greatest living English playwright. Prepare to Be Provoked. Caryl Churchill Is Back. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z More interesting and important than knowledge itself, Stoppard suggests, is the desire for knowledge, and it's that which illuminates and drives David Leveaux's production. Arcadia ? review 2011-04-13T12:04:36Z Judaism never figured conspicuously in Stoppard’s earlier work. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Stoppard, however, conceded that there was some truth to the generalization: “I completely understand how it's arisen. I can see that ‘Rosencrantz’ and ‘Jumpers’ and ‘Travesties’ were manipulations of language and situation.” With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Byatt’s novel “Possession” and Tom Stoppard’s play “Arcadia,” they began to write a show about present-day characters fumbling into the past. Michael Friedman Left Behind a Musical. They’re Finishing It. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z With his first play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' Telenovela as live theater: 'Destiny of Desire' is a zany, funny delight 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Standing naked, Stoppard improvised a solution that was used in the movie. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z It is Stoppard's first stage play at the NT since his trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, in 2002. Stoppard 'science' play to premiere 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z I have a cherished recollection of meeting Briers when he played the second-string theatre critic, Moon, in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound in 1968. Richard Briers was a potent presence on stage, as well as in The Good Life 2013-02-18T16:04:36Z Past, present and future all look ominously cloudy as forecast by the young, precociously fatalistic Mr. Stoppard. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z It was not clear if he would be meeting with Mr. Stoppard, though executives described their talks about “Shakespeare in Love” as ongoing. ArtsBeat Blog: Stage Version of 'Shakespeare in Love' Moving Ahead 2011-10-21T17:46:52Z Most people turn to the right as they age; Stoppard went the other way. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Given that Stoppard told me he “adores” the Queen and living in a constitutional monarchy, and given Guinness’s friendship with Prince Charles, I wondered if they watched “The Crown”? Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z But the play’s argument and its likely source in Stoppard’s own life does not really emerge until the scene that follows, set in 1955. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard took part in some rehearsals and kept making suggestions along the way. ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Makes Stage Debut in London 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Tom Stoppard would rather not be talking about The Real Thing. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z Still casting about for the subject of his next play, Stoppard said that he’d love to come upon a great idea that required no reading whatsoever. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z We thought it would be interesting to see what sort of a journey the album takes Tom Stoppard on. Aardman animates Pink Floyd trailer 2013-08-20T11:02:31Z In the hall hang framed letters Stoppard has collected, including one from A.E. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Tom Stoppard is uncomfortably folded into a second-class Eurostar seat, his head lolling against his shoulder. The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z Now Stoppard is mulling a play on moral realism, whether good and bad are objective truths, rather than subjective attitudes. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Like a lot of us during the pandemic, “Tom Stoppard: A Life” could stand to lose 15 percent of its body weight. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z The Critic/The Real Inspector Hound Sheridan is matched with Stoppard in two of the funniest plays ever written about theatre. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z I still think Stoppard sets up a straw man in the figure of Brodie: a Glaswegian political activist whose clunkingly awful TV play is espoused by Annie, and Henry agrees to rewrite. Review 2010-04-21T23:44:00Z In 1994, The Los Angeles Times reported that his animation studio, Amblimation, would begin production on an adaptation — with a screenplay by none other than Tom Stoppard. ‘Cats’: What to Know Before You See It 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z When Stoppard landed in New York that year he was the toast of the town, as his biographer, Hermione Lee, writes in “Tom Stoppard: A Life.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Tom Stoppard's comment on the news of the Dante translation was to be "faintly surprised he's not trying to translate something from the Chinese or the Hungarian". Clive James – a life in writing 2013-07-05T07:45:01Z Later this year it will be performed as a BBC radio play in an adaptation by Tom Stoppard. In His New Book, Daniel Kehlmann Says Hello to a Cruel World 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z She wants to expose the emotional roots of fascism that a typically political or social framing — like that in Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” — underplays. Review: At ‘Camp Siegfried,’ a Nazi Summer of Love on Long Island 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z “The hoodie is an iconic and recognizable piece of clothing, but to wear one with unthinking confidence tends to be inextricably tied up with privilege,” Ms. Stoppard said. The Hoodie Enters the Museum 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The names of some of the characters in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia sound suspiciously like theatre critics, and in the 1990 TV play Old Flames, Simon Gray playfully gave critics' names to the murder victims. Critics on screen – a YouTube roundup 2013-01-23T09:42:13Z “Being Stoppard it’s complex, but also incredibly emotional.” Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ Will Open on Broadway This Fall 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z My father, Tom Stoppard, a few people whose brain doesn’t work like other peoples’ and they’re just unique people. Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan play geniuses in ‘Tesla’ 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z That Stoppard’s haunting ode to the vanished Viennese Jewish world should play alongside Bernhard’s incendiary indictment of postwar Austrian repression and hypocrisy feels appropriate, in a sly and mischievous way. Drama, in German, in the Shadow of ‘Leopoldtstadt’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Stoppard opted not to go to university and stumbled into the theater while working as a reporter and a drama critic. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z He has taken home a staggering seven Tony awards as best director, for work ranging from four Neil Simon comedies to Tom Stoppard’s “Real Thing” to the musical “Spamalot.” Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z Getting home, I chose from the flock of seagulls on my bookshelves, texts by Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and Christopher Hampton. How far can you push Chekhov? 2012-11-19T15:11:45Z The interview with Sir Tom Stoppard is available on the iPlayer. Aardman animates Pink Floyd trailer 2013-08-20T11:02:31Z Marber said that Stoppard has continued revising the play for New York, where he said he expects the play to resonate differently because of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ Will Open on Broadway This Fall 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z By far the hardest part of writing the life of Stoppard, she said, was that Stoppard, now 83, was still living it. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z “It’s very like being away from your house and someone rifling through your knicker drawer … if it’s Tom Stoppard it’s not so bad,” she said. Tulip Fever author Deborah Moggach recalls 'nightmare' movie adaptation 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Stoppard’s early life was defined by a series of escapes, and those escapes led to elisions. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Mike Nichols said Stoppard was “the only writer I know who is completely happy.” It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Tom Stoppard has deployed principles of physics stylishly and repeatedly in time-bending dramas like “Arcadia.” ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Big Ideas in Small Spaces 2012-01-31T16:09:34Z Tom Stoppard was born Tomáš Sträussler, in Czechoslovakia, receiving his new last name just as Leo does, from an English stepfather. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z In “The Hard Problem,” Hilary’s quest to answer the question that Stoppard said is central to the play — “Who’s the ‘you’ outside your brain?” — forces her to factor into her research the reality of love. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z But she, now an emeritus professor of English literature at Oxford, comes at Stoppard from the academy. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Broadway stage work followed, as well as London productions for Michael Frayn, David Hare and Tom Stoppard. Lynn Redgrave: a life in clips 2010-05-04T09:00:00Z Stoppard returns the favor: “And you have those beautiful silvery rows. Like sharks.” Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z This week sees the revival of two plays that put us hacks centre stage: Richard Sheridan's The Critic and Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound, both at Chichester Festival theatre. Michael Billington on celebrity status 2010-07-07T21:01:00Z It’s been a while since the dramatist and screenwriter Tom Stoppard produced a new play. Essential Arts & Culture: Stoppard's new play, L.A.'s Wrigley Field, Dudamel's best-ever L.A. Phil piece 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z When this noble character first appeared in London in 2015, in the premiere of “The Hard Problem,” Mr. Stoppard’s first full-length play in nine years, the Western world felt like a slightly more hopeful place. Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’ Is a Mind-Body Gabfest 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Like his peer Tom Stoppard, Mr. Frayn is known for his cool intellectual virtuosity, but his admirers are less likely to celebrate his heart. | 'Benefactors': Discord Among the Best of Married Friends 2011-04-13T22:25:29Z Sewell, once the young dreamboat of Tom Stoppard’s superb Arcadia in its London premiere, makes a suitably menacing and weary chief villain. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: Four-score and Seven Corpses 2012-06-21T13:40:09Z Those helping to fund it include playwright Tom Stoppard and comedian Rowan Atkinson. It's practically Orwellian: The BBC is installing a George Orwell statue 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Stoppard does something unusual, ending his play with three characters who have barely appeared. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Toby Stephens, who plays Henry at the Old Vic in London, told an interviewer that he had felt it wise to lunch with Stoppard in advance, as it is "such an autobiographical play". Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z A writer who reliably bent time into pretzels in earlier works, Stoppard hews to a fully linear structure here. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z So when love strikes Connie and Tristan, as it inevitably does, they have to wonder if this is indeed, to borrow from Tom Stoppard, the real thing. Review: ‘The Effect,’ About Falling in Love While Taking Antidepressants 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Tom Stoppard, the grand old man of British theater, is back with his first new stage play in nine years, tackling typically big ideas: consciousness, science and God. Stoppard's new play lifts the lid on brain science 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Stoppard seems to place himself there, along with the Merzes, whose refusal to believe the worst led them directly to it. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z As is his wont, Mr. Stoppard touches on them all, running from one to the other and back again, with great speed and alacrity. Tom Stoppard’s ‘Indian Ink’ Focuses on English Sisters 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Her Stoppard book is estimable but wincingly long; it sometimes rides low in the water. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z An expansion of Mr. Stoppard’s earlier “In the Native State,” a 1991 radio play, “Indian Ink” retains vestiges of a form that is as satisfactorily heard as it is seen. Tom Stoppard’s ‘Indian Ink’ Focuses on English Sisters 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z With her future uncertain, Marta made her third and final escape to England by marrying Major Stoppard. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Stoppard, 74, spoke with reporters on the sidelines of the Jaipur Literature Festival in India last month. Tom Stoppard, beneficiary of the subconscious 2012-02-02T10:54:07Z This conversation occurs in the hard-thinking ‘‘The Hard Problem,’’ the new play by Mr. Stoppard that opened on Wednesday night at the National Theater. In Tom Stoppard's 'Hard Problem,' a Search for Certainty and Order 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Leo, contentedly vague about his identity, must listen to the litany of Holocaust deaths recited to him by his cousin, just as Stoppard did with his cousin. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Dangle and Sneer are the names of the critics in Sheridan's late 18th-century comedy, The Critic, while in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound, Moon and Birdboot prove themselves a mass of insecurities and jealousies. Critics on screen – a YouTube roundup 2013-01-23T09:42:13Z Among the plays, “Leopoldstadt,” Tom Stoppard’s semi-autobiographical Holocaust drama, took the top awards, almost a foregone conclusion with that author and that subject — a subject he strangely did not mention in his acceptance. Unscripted or Not, the Tonys Were Mostly Predictable 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z The cascading escapes made Stoppard feel as though he had “this charmed life.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z But mostly the music seems scant and exhausted trying to keep up with Stoppard. A Day of Divas 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Eventually “A Cool Dip,” which opened on Sunday night at Playwrights Horizons, begins to feels like a cross between a Tom Stoppard play and a water slide. Theater Review | 'A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick': At Playwrights Horizons, the Politics of Water 2010-03-29T04:37:00Z Theater Works, which has more than 600 audio titles in an expanding catalog featuring works by Dominique Morisseau and Tom Stoppard, as well as Miller and Ibsen. Radio Drama for a Podcast Age: How Amazon’s Audible Moved Into Theater 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z For now, the right words for Stoppard would be those of a new play, the first since "Rock `n' Roll" from seven years ago. 'Parade's End' keeps British TV invasion going 2013-02-22T19:09:13Z Not many playwrights would have thought to turn this confluence of epochal sensibilities into a farce, but Stoppard has a gift for finding humor in the most rarefied scenarios. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z My luck was that I could go to the Lincoln Center Theatre to see Jack O'Brien's superb production of Tom Stoppard's trilogy of plays, The Coast of Utopia. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z Pointing out Frank Sinatra, Stoppard said regretfully that the signature had faded from too much sunlight. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Stoppard was congratulated on his first drama of the heart rather than the head, although a few admirers regretted this shift in emphasis. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z The Tom Stoppard play “Arcadia,” the first written work my husband ever gave me. Chelsea Clinton: By the Book 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Tom Stoppard once told me the most difficult thing about writing a play was coming up with the plot, which was why he liked to adapt things. Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Directed by Joe Wright, from a screenplay by Tom Stoppard, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. A wild, whirling 'Anna Karenina' 2012-11-20T00:29:04Z Tom Stoppard's new play for the National Theatre, entitled The Hard Problem, will premiere at the new Dorfman Theatre on 28 January. Stoppard 'science' play to premiere 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z In “Leopoldstadt,” Stoppard takes dramatic irony — the audience’s grasp of what the characters cannot see — to such an extreme that it becomes the subject itself. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt,” which centers on the destructive toll of antisemitism on a family of Viennese Jews and was inspired by Stoppard’s belated reckoning with his Jewish roots, won best play. ‘Leopoldstadt’ and ‘Parade,’ Which Grapple With Antisemitism, Win Tony Awards 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Stoppard said that some of the designers had been selected because of their connections to Ms. Hadid, and others because they were invested in an innovative aspect of fashion design. Fashion Honors Zaha Hadid With ‘Extraordinary Process’ Exhibition 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The most imaginative bit is a surreal dream that Stoppard has, and it involves him not wearing pants. "See How They Run" is a comic whodunit that falls flat except for the dead guy 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z I wonder what Ms. Wharton might have thought of "Anna Karenina" set primarily on a theater stage, as in Joe Wright's new version, scripted by playwright Tom Stoppard. Toronto International Film Festival: 'Anna Karenina,' 'Seven Psychopaths' 2012-09-07T16:50:05Z A new revival of Tom Stoppard’s intellectually antic “Travesties” will be on at the Menier, directed by the playwright Patrick Marber. Ben Brantley Answers Your London Theater Questions 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z His 1972 play “Jumpers,” she argues persuasively, is both “showbiz incarnate: tricksy, hilarious, flamboyant, startling,” and a grieving depiction of a doomed marriage that opened two days after Stoppard’s first divorce. Review | ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life’ documents the professional successes and glamorous social life of a storied playwright 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z And like many Stoppard plays, “Indian Ink” is about time, and what is lost and found or never retrieved in its rushing currents. Tom Stoppard’s ‘Indian Ink’ Focuses on English Sisters 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Stoppard will receive the award at a public event at the British Library on October 7, PEN said. UK playwright Tom Stoppard wins PEN/Pinter prize 2013-07-31T11:58:49Z One may not think of Tom Stoppard as a creator of short plays, but early in his career he dispatched some deft comic one-acts with a political-philosophical slant. Sound Theatre Company performs Stoppard short plays 2013-06-17T20:14:44Z Stoppard told me he was “shocked” by the request, which he ignored, chalking it up to his stepfather’s grief. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z But even more because, when he wasn't creating new characters in Stoppard plays, he redefined every role he played. John Wood: an actor who made us see things anew 2011-08-11T12:32:33Z Still, Mr. Stoppard makes it difficult for us to feel the depths of Hilary’s pain, which is essential if this play is to have emotional impact. Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’ Is a Mind-Body Gabfest 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Stoppard's play does not ultimately answer the hard problem, which is no great surprise, given the uncertainty among scientists as to whether the human brain is actually complex enough ever to understand itself. Stoppard's new play lifts the lid on brain science 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Acting Company is hard at work selling its own repertory initiative: “Hamlet” and Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” which has not been revived in New York in 27 years. Saturation of Shakespeare Offers Tough Choices 2014-01-21T22:13:00Z "If there's ever the smallest crack," says Stoppard, "then Natalia has her foot in that door." The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z Her plays – like those of Tom Stoppard, with whom I also worked – always arrived fully made. Caryl Churchill, by the people who know her best 2012-10-03T17:44:37Z In London, I felt that the scene merely struggled to dramatize its themes; here it felt more awkward, and even redundant, as if Stoppard were lecturing the Viennese about their own history. A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Soon after the curtain rose on “Acheron,” I remembered how Tom Stoppard’s play “The Invention of Love” begins on the banks of another river of the Greek underworld, the Styx, with its ferryman, Charon. Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z In the documentary, screenwriter Tom Stoppard calls it “the end of the innocence of Spielberg.” Steven Spielberg’s 3 Biggest Failures, According to Steven Spielberg 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z This may be the Stoppard play for people who don’t normally cotton to Stoppard. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z When Stoppard is caught in the rain, Stalker warns him about catching a chill, leading to him doubling over sneezing the next day. "See How They Run" is a comic whodunit that falls flat except for the dead guy 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z As they were leaving, Barnes recalled recently, Stoppard ambled up and asked Lee if she had any interest in writing his life. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z There was a stir — and a shudder — when Stoppard told the BBC, before “Leopoldstadt” opened in London’s West End in 2020, that he was slowing down and this might be his last play. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Storytelling is Stoppard’s trade, and the challenge of ordering material to keep an audience rapt is the heart and soul of his artistic enterprise. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Singapore fell to the Japanese when Stoppard was 4. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard didn’t dispute this, though he called it “a slightly lazy way of summing me up.” Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z “I was interested in working with designers who weren’t thought of as making ‘futuristic’ fashion,” Ms. Stoppard said. Fashion Honors Zaha Hadid With ‘Extraordinary Process’ Exhibition 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard is the rare playwright — Shaw, Pirandello and Pinter are others — to have earned his own adjective. Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Tall, dashing, large-eyed, shaggy-haired; to women Stoppard’s been a walking stimulus package. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Lee tracks the arc of Stoppard’s politics over time. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Wood revealed a unique knack of conveying Stoppard's cleverness as though it were contained within his own. John Wood obituary 2011-08-10T14:21:55Z It also aims for the trenchant political wit of Tom Stoppard in his “Rock ‘n’ Roll” mode, and Gogol’s blithe way with bureaucratic satire. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Lee is sure that when Stoppard finally read the book, he inwardly groaned. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z It wasn’t until she went to college at Brown and performed in Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” that she began to study acting, enrolling in all of the classes she could. Miriam Silverman Is ‘Unafraid of Embracing the Darkness’ 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z What with problems of inaudibility afflicting the Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia,” imported British-born productions would seem to be in surprising need of elocution lessons. | 'The Comedy of Errors': Giving Shakespeare His Sombrero and Kazoo 2011-03-18T11:00:00Z In her encyclopedic new biography Hermione Lee seems to provide several million about Tom Stoppard. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Unusually for Stoppard, the play comes with a heart-wrenching autobiographical twist: a little boy named Leo who escapes the Holocaust for the safety of England, and who might just as well have been called Tom. What to See on Broadway in October 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Stoppard, no doubt noting the resurgence of antisemitism today, seems to argue for that, painting complacency as a kind of hubris. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Though far too mercurial to be labelled tragedy or comedy, Tom Stoppard's English version – first produced by the Bridge Project at the Old Vic last year – suggests that it is all a question of perspective. The Cherry Orchard - review 2010-10-22T20:30:00Z Kahn had been considering the Sheridan and Stoppard plays ever since “The Critic” was part of the STC’s “Re-Discovery” series several years ago. The wrath of Michael Kahn in comedies about critics 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z On Tuesday night Mr. Stoppard, who was born in Czechoslovakia, was the main speaker at a protest demonstration outside the Belarussian Embassy in London. Theater Group in Belarus Is Forced Underground 2010-12-22T04:00:02Z “It was because I personally didn’t have the background I wanted to write about — bourgeois, cultured, the city of Klimt and Mahler and Freud,” Stoppard said. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z But this is a play by Mr. Stoppard, who likes to warp and weave together different eras of history. Tom Stoppard’s ‘Indian Ink’ Focuses on English Sisters 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Born Tomas Straussler in a small town in Czechoslovakia in 1937, he grew up largely in Britain, taking the name of Stoppard from the Englishman his mother married after his father’s death. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z This is Leopoldstadt, the historic Jewish district of old Vienna and the neighborhood that has given Tom Stoppard’s newest play its name. A Timely Biography Traces Joseph Roth’s Accounts of Fascism 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z Stoppard reportedly attempted to adapt the screenplay himself, but eventually left the project. 'Shakespeare in Love' opens in London to mostly raves 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z He played the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz at the Victoria Palace and also appeared in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound at the Young Vic. Italian Job actor John Clive dies 2012-10-16T11:37:06Z Even then he was impressed enough to ask her to collaborate on the Stoppard play. Giving a young set designer her props 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Beckett praises Stoppard’s as “Messy and brilliant, like your mind.” Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z I kept thinking of the character of Eleanor, in Mr. Stoppard’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll,” a woman with cancer who refuses to be defined by her disease. Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’ Is a Mind-Body Gabfest 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Stoppard told me that when he started his career, he did not want to appear in his work “in any guise.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z And after reading Hermione Lee’s recent biography of Tom Stoppard, I started working my way through his plays, many familiar, some I’m new to. Alice McDermott Is Reading ‘Frankenstein’ for the First Time 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Tynan, like Stoppard, started as a journalist, writing for years with dishy mischief about show folk in London, Hollywood and New York. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z “It’s fundamentally about memory, and time and love. But it’s also about fascism and immigrants and refugees. It’s about everything — it’s Stoppard.” Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ Will Open on Broadway This Fall 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z One of the characters rips into real-life people, including Stoppard and Madeleine Albright, saying they took too long to discover their family history, calling them “blind observers” who played it safe. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The last Stoppard projects for the BBC were plays in the 1970s, including Professional Foul, about a Cambridge don whose visit to Prague is hijacked by communism. Tom Stoppard returns to BBC with Ford Madox Ford adaptation 2010-07-29T15:52:00Z As Stoppard flips through this Rolodex of Viennese machers, you may recognize his trademark bravura: tossing you into the deep end of his imagination, trusting that you’ll eventually surface. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Details are sketchy, but Tom Stoppard is scripting. The most exciting family films of 2017 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Still, a new Stoppard play is always an event and there are few tickets left until April, when it will be broadcast live to hundreds of cinemas around the world. Stoppard's new play lifts the lid on brain science 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z In The Spectator, the English weekly, Tom Stoppard wrote, “This is the life I’ve always wanted — social distancing without social disapproval.” Celebrating Literature’s Slacker Heroes, Idlers and Liers-In 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Stoppard's script is tight and perfect, and there are fine performances wherever you look. Parade's End – review 2012-08-25T06:00:00Z Born in Czechoslovakia to Jewish parents, Stoppard and his family left suddenly for Singapore before the arrival of the Nazis, moved to India and finally settled in England after his mother remarried. 13 New Books to Watch For in February 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Or, to use a contemporary example, Tom Stoppard. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Speaking the Speech, Trippingly 2011-03-24T17:53:23Z Mr. Stoppard possesses the enthusiasm of an eternal student, both arrogant about what he knows and humble about what he doesn’t. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Tom Stoppard’s play, a drama of conscience, consciousness and coincidence, reaches its conclusion. 7 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z The host of the reunion is their coach, played by Brian Cox, who last starred on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s “Rock ’n’ Roll.” Just the Guys, Candid and Rugged 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z Does Stoppard, whose plays reveal a deep moral sense, fret about the ethics of this? Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z In the manner of Tom Stoppard, Moses fills the mouths of his characters with fancy phrases and scholarly discourse. Bewigged ambitions in Taproot’s ‘Bach at Leipzig’ 2013-05-23T20:25:47Z Stoppard was in San Francisco to check in on rehearsals of his latest play, “The Hard Problem,” which has its official opening here at the American Conservatory Theater on Oct. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z When I saw “Leopoldstadt” in London, I wondered how Viennese audiences would react to Stoppard’s fictional exploration of their history and culture. A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z That Stoppard wanted a biography at all was a surprise. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z So instead, Lee’s book ends with a vanishing — Stoppard’s recollection of a famous outdoor production of “The Tempest” in which Ariel seems to run across water and then disappears into the dark. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z It's even made Tom Stoppard think again about totalitarianism. The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z As his friend and fellow playwright Simon Gray said, Stoppard was a magnetic figure blessed with so many enviable gifts — talent, riches, looks, luck — that it was futile to envy him. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Powley’s mastery of Mr. Stoppard’s pyrotechnic language earned her raves from critics, including Ben Brantley of The New York Times, who wrote that she “enchantingly captures the ardor of a brilliant young mind.” Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z So she felt reasonably confident about handling that part of Stoppard’s life, though in the end writing about the plays themselves required a tremendous amount of homework. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z And he's lodged scrupulous, commanding performances here in recent years, as a die-hard Marxist academic in Tom Stoppard's "Rock'n Roll" and a disillusioned sleuth in Martin McDonagh's "The Pillowman" — both at ACT. Generation gap in John Logan's 'Red' bridged by 2 familiar actors 2012-02-22T21:59:04Z A new Tom Stoppard play will be the final show directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre before he steps down in 2015. New Tom Stoppard play for National 2014-03-20T14:53:35Z Tom Stoppard: "I wanted to call the play 'Exit Rosencrantz and Guildenstern', but for the bad grammar – 'Exeunt R and G' I didn't like as a title, so settled for 'are dead'." Notes on PEN's annotated first edition auction 2013-05-20T10:58:00Z In Tom Stoppard’s wildly erudite historical comedy, great men dash in and out of a Wildean romp loosely based on coincidence. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z To review two plays by a then unknown writer, Tom Stoppard. Michael Billington and Philip French receive OBEs in New Year honours 2012-12-29T00:08:02Z Sheridan Morley and I once played the hack-reviewers in Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound in one of the first British telethons. Michael Billington on reviewers who join in the play 2011-02-23T22:15:01Z That said, Lee is very good on Stoppard’s sometimes painful experiences with the movies and fills us in about some tantalizing writing projects — like a screenplay about Galileo — that came to nothing. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Roundabout is also mounting a revival of Mr. Stoppard’s play “The Real Thing” on Broadway next season. ArtsBeat: Roundabout Theater Will Revive ‘Noises Off’ on Broadway 2014-01-16T20:00:52Z He’s done plays both in London and Broadway, including a 2011 revival of Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia.” Versatile Tom Riley tackles sci-fi fantasy in ‘The Nevers’ 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Gyllenhaal, who will be making her Broadway debut this fall opposite Ewan McGregor in a revival of Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing," joins a growing list of movie talent migrating to television for creative fulfillment. Maggie Gyllenhaal says she had to grow up for 'The Honorable Woman' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Tom Stoppard makes a similar joke in his recent epic play “Leopoldstadt,” only there the tree topper is a Star of David. Review: ‘Just for Us’ Reaches Across the Chasm 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z And Ms. Fleming will join the Emerson String Quartet to perform the world premiere of “Penelope,” by Mr. Previn and the playwright Tom Stoppard. A Tanglewood Summer of Bach, Wagner and Renée Fleming 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia and became closely involved with the dissident movement there, as well as travelling to the Soviet Union in the 80s with Amnesty, whose value as an organisation he calls "inestimable". The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing” I got a request to start rehearsal of this play in London called “The Real Thing” by Tom Stoppard, whom I’d never met. Jeremy Irons Is Transported by Renzo Piano and a Dog Named Smudge 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z In a way it was summed up towards the beginning of Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Friedman, his producer, said that, despite Marber’s description of Stoppard’s air of “kingly bonhomie,” the playwright is the most democratic person she knows. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z She greets us, rather forebodingly, with a genealogical tree, as if the extended Stoppard family were a medieval royal house. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z In “On the Razzle,” first produced in the early 1980s, Stoppard gleefully abandons any pretense of intellectual heft. Few sparks in 'On the Razzle' at Theatre West 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z She originally thought she might conclude with Stoppard’s 80th birthday, in July 2017. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Which is why the idea of Stoppard adapting Ford Madox Ford sounds so appetising. Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Ford Madox Ford is where it belongs ? on TV 2010-07-30T14:48:00Z The reviews reviewed: Wasn't Stoppard brilliant 30 years ago! What to say about ... The Real Thing 2010-04-23T14:48:00Z The movie finally emerged in 1998, with the script now by Norman and Tom Stoppard. Shakespeare in Love takes centre stage 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z As one of Tom Stoppard’s characters put it in his 1982 play The Real Thing, “It looked all over for the 15-jewel movement. Men ran through the marketplace shouting ‘the cog is dead!’” Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Ehle, a two-time Tony winner for her work in Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing” and “The Coast of Utopia,” described the process of situating herself within the production as “less rehearsing and more orienteering.” A Rebound for a Summer Pairing of ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Oresteia’ at the Armory 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z When the current artistic director, Carey Perloff, took over in 1992, she reinstated a small core acting company, expanded the educational offerings and earned praise, in particular, for her productions of Tom Stoppard plays. 2010-01-31T03:59:00Z Stoppard never appeared comfortable in the role, partly because he seemed too callow, but mostly because there wasn't much of a role to be comfortable in. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z "Harold was one of the reasons I wanted to write plays," Stoppard said in a statement from prize organizer English PEN, a worldwide writers' association and freedom of expression charity. UK playwright Tom Stoppard wins PEN/Pinter prize 2013-07-31T11:58:49Z It's welcome assurance to hear the guild lifetime award he received Feb. 17 doesn't signal a halt for Stoppard. 'Parade's End' keeps British TV invasion going 2013-02-22T19:09:13Z But the work is blessedly free of the endless plot summaries that weigh down Hermione Lee’s biography of Tom Stoppard. Playwright August Wilson was ahead of his time. But would he have made it today? 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z “Kimberly Akimbo,” about a teenager who ages in reverse, and Tom Stoppard’s autobiographical “Leopoldstadt” were among the winners Sunday as the Tony Awards went on despite the Writers Guild of America strike. Art Basel draws surge in Asian collectors 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z “Writers are not just the cornerstone of theatrical production — the sharp end of the inverted pyramid,” as Tom Stoppard more eloquently put it when he accepted the best play award for “Leopoldstadt.” Commentary: An unscripted Tony Awards 2023 found meaning and eloquence on a historic night 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z One of the night's biggest awards, best play, went to British writer Sir Tom Stoppard for his play Leopoldstadt, which also scooped best direction, best costume and best performance by an actor in a play. Tony Awards 2023: Jodie Comer wins as Ariana DeBose hosts unscripted 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z June 11 - “Kimberly Akimbo,” about a teenager who ages in reverse, and Tom Stoppard’s autobiographical “Leopoldstadt” were among the winners Sunday as the Tony Awards went on despite the Writers Guild of America strike. 'Kimberly Akimbo,' Tom Stoppard’s 'Leopoldstadt' among winners on writerless Tony night 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Stoppard’s expansive vision was rewarded with a Broadway reception that matched the depth of the drama. Commentary: Why the Tony Awards should give one to the audience this year 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z By the time she turned 19, she was starring on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” and enjoying the thrill of living in New York, even if the material was a bit incomprehensible to her. Bel Powley avoided period pieces, but 'A Small Light' was no 'dusty historical drama' 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z In his acceptance speech for best play, Stoppard succinctly articulated the reason there was so much solidarity with the striking screenwriters. Commentary: An unscripted Tony Awards 2023 found meaning and eloquence on a historic night 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Jordan Cooper’s “Ain’t No Mo’ ” and Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” collected the most nominations, six each, in the race for best new play. ‘Some Like It Hot’ leads the 2023 Tony nominations, with 13 nods 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z “The Last Samurai” and “I Am Sam” producer revealed that, at first, he couldn’t get revered screenwriter Tom Stoppard to do a rewrite on Marc Norman’s first draft. Julia Roberts in 'Shakespeare in Love'? Thankfully it didn't happen, producer says 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z This is a work that only Stoppard could have written. Commentary: Why the Tony Awards should give one to the audience this year 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z “Next winter is looking less concerning than this winter,” Mr. Stoppard said. Europe Has Weathered an Energy Crisis, for Now 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z "We are seeing nothing less than the termination of a successful 50-year partnership on gas between Russia and Europe," said Michael Stoppard, special adviser and global gas analyst at S&P Global Commodity Insights. The year Russia turbocharged a global energy crisis 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z In The Times Magazine, the playwright Tom Stoppard, 85, talks to David Marchese about a rising tide of antisemitism, how to approach hate speech, and his newest play, “Leopoldstadt.” Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z In the early 1990s, Stoppard, a “childhood idol” of Zwick’s, apparently wanted a million dollars to make the movie but Universal Studios wouldn’t finance it until Roberts, then 24, showed interest in the project. Julia Roberts in 'Shakespeare in Love'? Thankfully it didn't happen, producer says 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z “Leopoldstadt,” Tom Stoppard’s stunning new play on Broadway about a highly cultivated extended family in Vienna that was decimated in the Holocaust, isn’t autobiographical. Tom Stoppard's Jewish roots: Carey Perloff on Broadway's acclaimed play of the season 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z On Broadway, the best-selling new play of the fall season is Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt,” about three generations of a Jewish family in Austria largely destroyed by World War II. Between Kanye and the Midterms, the Unsettling Stream of Antisemitism 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z “Sonia gave me carte blanche,” Stoppard said, “and she gave me the opportunity to write a play which was, as a business model, insanity.” Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z The Viennese Jewish family in Tom Stoppard’s play “Leopoldstadt” thinks it is too assimilated to be in danger when the Nazis arrive. Donald Trump’s Methods 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Ten weeks later I was back in London, where a xeroxed copy of Stoppard’s first draft was waiting in my fancy hotel room,” Zwick wrote. Julia Roberts in 'Shakespeare in Love'? Thankfully it didn't happen, producer says 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z In his late works, Stoppard has been more willing to confront his personal history. Tom Stoppard's Jewish roots: Carey Perloff on Broadway's acclaimed play of the season 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Perhaps what moved me so was the pain layered on in delicate brushstrokes in this fictionalized account, which was deeply influenced by Stoppard’s later-in-life discovery of his own Jewish roots. Review | Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ on Broadway is simply devastating 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z “The play grew out of the related self-reproach about seeing my life as a charmed life,” Stoppard said during our long conversation. Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Stoppard’s name echoes the playwright Tom Stoppard, whose one-act play “The Real Inspector Hound,” like this film, parodies the cliches of a “Mousetrap”-style stage mystery. Review | ‘See How They Run’: An Agatha Christie-adjacent whodunit, with laughs 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The character’s name alludes to playwright Tom Stoppard, whose 1968 play “The Real Inspector Hound” is a parody of “The Mousetrap.” ‘See How They Run’ review: Saoirse Ronan charms in this mousetrap of a murder-mystery 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Author of such modern classics as “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “The Real Thing” and “Arcadia,” Stoppard is revered for his clever wordplay, inventive wit and breathtaking comic adventurousness. Tom Stoppard's Jewish roots: Carey Perloff on Broadway's acclaimed play of the season 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Tom Stoppard at 85: 'Without the writing, life isn't purposeful' Review | Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ on Broadway is simply devastating 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Marber and I were on video, but Stoppard was unseen, his throaty vowels and clipped consonants wafting in, as if over a PA system. Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z A sprawling play arrives by the contemporary maestro of literate drama, Tom Stoppard, and perhaps is the most personal work in the 85-year-old playwright’s esteemed career. Perspective | This fall, theaters whet our appetites with an impressive buffet 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Enter Stalker and Stoppard, and the game’s afoot. ‘See How They Run’ review: Saoirse Ronan charms in this mousetrap of a murder-mystery 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Stoppard has always admired my mother’s work so much — and when he read her memoir “The Vienna Paradox,” about escaping Vienna in 1938, he was captivated. Tom Stoppard's Jewish roots: Carey Perloff on Broadway's acclaimed play of the season 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Across the board, the performances earn your compassion — clearly, a family album in which Stoppard wanted us to invest our most profound sympathies. Review | Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ on Broadway is simply devastating 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z His mother, having been widowed after escaping Europe and resettling in Singapore, married an English army officer, Ken Stoppard, a crusty non-Jew and apparent antisemite, when the boy was 8. Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Rooted in Stoppard’s discovery of his Jewish heritage, the play spans more than a half-century in the history of a fictional Viennese Jewish family. Perspective | This fall, theaters whet our appetites with an impressive buffet 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Theater: Tom Stoppard reckons with his Jewish roots in “Leopoldstadt,” his most autobiographical play. TV’s Prequel-Mania 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Stoppard doesn’t tell his own family’s saga, thrillingly recapped in Hermione Lee’s recent biography. Tom Stoppard's Jewish roots: Carey Perloff on Broadway's acclaimed play of the season 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Sir Tom Stoppard’s latest work, “Leopoldstadt,” an epic inspired by his reckoning with his Jewish roots, begins previews on Broadway next week. Your Friday Briefing 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z As Stoppard biographer Hermione Lee and others have recounted, any Jewish identity evaporated in the new family life. Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z But this is a true occasion by any head count: the Stoppard play that may be the last he writes. Perspective | This fall, theaters whet our appetites with an impressive buffet 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z “There is a very big and legitimate worry about this winter,” said Michael Stoppard, vice president for global gas strategy at S&P Global, a research firm. Europe’s Race to Secure New Energy Sources Is on a Knife’s Edge 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z How do you see the connection between Stoppard and Leo? Tom Stoppard's Jewish roots: Carey Perloff on Broadway's acclaimed play of the season 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Stoppard emigrated to England at the age of 8 and quickly assumed an identity as British as white flannel cricket pants. Your Friday Briefing 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z I asked Stoppard, in view of the subject of his latest play, whether he now thinks of himself as a Jewish playwright. Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z She was nominated seven times for the Helen Hayes Award, a Washington theater award for excellence, before winning in 2000 for her supporting performance in Tom Stoppard’s “Indian Ink” at the Studio Theatre. June Hansen, prize-winning actress, dies at 95 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The directors befriended Czech-born British playwright Tom Stoppard, who offered an introduction to Nobel-winner Harold Pinter, who agreed they could incorporate his work into one of their early productions. Prominent underground theater troupe quits Belarus, citing dangers under Lukashenko 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z “Leopoldstadt” is a play that only Tom Stoppard could have written. Tom Stoppard's Jewish roots: Carey Perloff on Broadway's acclaimed play of the season 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z And as Blair's acting career progressed, he performed Stoppard and Ayckbourn. Give Us A Clue to Extras: The life of Lionel Blair 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Stoppard was transfixed for the moment by Marber’s father’s notion that he was always a Jew in plain sight. Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Challis was performing in two Tom Stoppard plays in New York when his agent called to ask him to come home to film an episode of the comedy series Citizen Smith. John Challis and Boycie - how one of TV's greatest comedy characters was born 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z The resulting play, Stoppard told the Guardian, “knocked me out.” Prominent underground theater troupe quits Belarus, citing dangers under Lukashenko 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Infusing her personal knowledge of the artists with her practical experience of staging their work, Perloff sheds light on what makes “Leopoldstadt” distinctive yet wholly integrated into Stoppard’s oeuvre. Tom Stoppard's Jewish roots: Carey Perloff on Broadway's acclaimed play of the season 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Sir Tom Stoppard is one of Britain’s greatest living playwrights. Stoppard: ‘Cancel culture has eroded free speech’ 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Wrestling with that idea, Stoppard cited “Travesties,” his cerebral 1974 play about Dadaism, and the metaphysical musings in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,” in which two secondary “Hamlet” characters are promoted to center stage. Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z If that’s not enough to kill a theater, it should at least reduce it to something meek, brittle and risk-averse, a dusty museum for safe chestnuts: Sam Shepard, David Mamet, early Tom Stoppard. An inside look at the improbable longevity of Seattle’s scrappy Annex Theatre 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Sir Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt was named best new play, while Fiddler on the Roof won best musical revival and Cyrano De Bergerac best revival. Olivier Awards: Messages of 'faith and hope' for theatre 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z How else do you see the complicated story of Stoppard’s identity playing out in his body of work? Tom Stoppard's Jewish roots: Carey Perloff on Broadway's acclaimed play of the season 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt,” which addresses history and the Holocaust through the story of a Viennese Jewish family, was named best new play. Show goes on for Olivier Awards, even with UK theaters shut 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z That these questions are turbulently alive for Stoppard seems undeniable, on the evidence of the play. Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z There are quirky observations, almost worthy of playwright Tom Stoppard. Einstein: don’t skip the Prague period 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Stoppard respectfully curbs his own penchant for sparkling wit, remaining faithful to the play’s deliberately fractured, matter-of-fact banality of oppression. Review: City Garage opens a window to life behind the Iron Curtain in 'Largo Desolato' 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z The more I’ve dug into Stoppard’s biography, the clearer it has become that, in spite of appearing to be a quintessential Englishman, he’s always been an outsider. Tom Stoppard's Jewish roots: Carey Perloff on Broadway's acclaimed play of the season 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z In high school, she often found herself wishing she was a boy because the writers she idolized — primarily Tom Stoppard — were men. In the snow with Greta Gerwig at the places that inspired 'Little Women' 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z “I’m fascinated by it,” Stoppard said of the assertion. Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z “Words are sacred, they deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you nudge the world a little,” Bernson said, quoting the playwright Tom Stoppard. This TV anchor is reinventing himself with Hollywood roles 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Theatre Works records Tom Stoppard’s comedy about a psychology student’s quest to understand human consciousness. Theater in L.A. this week: 'The Grinch,' 'Key Largo' and more 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z His final work, “Penelope,” completed on his deathbed, is a substantial setting of a powerful Tom Stoppard text for Renée Fleming, string quartet and piano. Review: Gustavo Dudamel begins a new L.A. Phil season with no need for a gala 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z “I suppose the appeal of the pond is having a moment’s peace, away from prying eyes,” Stoppard tells me. Sunbathing topless should be a pleasure we can all enjoy | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z How, he wondered, could Marber have been so sure of this when Stoppard himself hadn’t known it? Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Stoppard is known for being an impersonal writer, rarely drawing on autobiography. Jewish district inspires Tom Stoppard in 'personal' new play 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z He once directed me in a Tom Stoppard play in Leicester. 'I even loved his Twankey': Dench, Hopkins, Mirren and more on Ian McKellen at 80 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z “We see a new dawn in Egypt,” said Michael Stoppard, chief strategist for global gas markets at IHS Markit, an energy consulting firm. Egypt Looks to Offshore Gas Field for Growth and Influence 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z He became close friends with the likes of Tom Stoppard. André Previn: A hit in Hollywood, lionized in London, but it all began in Berlin 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z “My two heroes were the Jewish playwrights Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard,” Marber recounted. Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Friedman said both she and Stoppard loved the idea of opening in a “great, grand playhouse”. Jewish district inspires Tom Stoppard in 'personal' new play 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z But she got hooked during a semester in London, watching Tom Stoppard’s heady “Jumpers,” a farce involving philosophers and acrobats. The play ‘Kings’ is a comedy, but its lobbyists and politicians wield words like killers 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Stoppard’s characters squabble over these questions while lusting, scheming, loving, pitying, regretting, suffering, feeling. Can Art Solve the Hard Problem? 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z It’s often said of Stoppard, as a point of differentiation from other playwrights, that he is uniquely interested in presenting complex ideas onstage. The Incarnation of Ideas in Tom Stoppard’s “The Hard Problem” 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Now we’re all receiving instruction on the evolution of Stoppard’s ethnic identity by virtue of “Leopoldstadt,” the renowned playwright’s new, sprawling drama. Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z His mother married a British army officer, Kenneth Stoppard, in 1946 and after four happy years in India the family moved to England. Jewish district inspires Tom Stoppard in 'personal' new play 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z The playwright Tom Stoppard once said that a good piece of theater should be “a series of ambushes,” emotional and intellectual sneak attacks launched against the audience. Swiss Architecture Firm Herzog & De Meuron Celebrates 40 Years 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Like all great artists, Stoppard doesn’t pretend to solve the mind-body problem. Can Art Solve the Hard Problem? 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Heady fare, sure, but relatively light stuff for Stoppard. The Incarnation of Ideas in Tom Stoppard’s “The Hard Problem” 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Even as the shattering events depicted here ring familiar, especially to Jews, who have the intimations of annihilation soldered onto their souls, Stoppard’s words contribute another poetic verse to a long and tragic elegy. Tom Stoppard at 85: ‘Without the writing, life isn’t purposeful’ 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” which imagines the musings of a pair of Shakespeare’s minor characters, is a difficult play to stage. Essential Arts & Culture: Art after the crash, a museum rises in Houston, an innovator of dance on video - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Stoppard imagines these former school chums of Hamlet’s being stuck onstage like players without scripts, awaiting their scattered moments in the main action. Review: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, life's bit players, search for meaning in a philosophical wormhole - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Playwright Tom Stoppard, renowned for plays with philosophical themes, explores how material processes could generate consciousness and other deep features of the human condition. Can Art Solve the Hard Problem? 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z To say that Stoppard is interested in ideas, and in their incarnation through bodies and in their expression through artful talk, is really only to say that he is interested in drama itself. The Incarnation of Ideas in Tom Stoppard’s “The Hard Problem” 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z At Grove Atlantic’s offices, we waited for Morgan Entrekin, the C.E.O. and publisher, who rushed in, extending his hand and apologizing for being late; he’d been at lunch with Tom Stoppard. Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z For those who insist on considering a writer in terms of what he represents instead of what he writes, Stoppard’s is still a makeable case for the Nobel. Stuck inside of Stockholm with the Nobel blues again - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z |
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