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After being educated at schools in Nottingham and Yorkshire, Stoppard became a journalist, a drama critic and then, in 1960, a playwright.
May 22, 2024 · Tom Stoppard, Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter whose work is marked by verbal brilliance, ingenious action, and structural dexterity. His notable plays included Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Arcadia. He also cowrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Shakespeare in Love.
Aug 5, 2021 · Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard talks to Newsnight about the impact of cancel culture, his latest production Leopoldstadt and why he feels he “must” write anothe...
Tom Stoppard was knighted in 1997. He lives in London. His latest plays include Heroes (2005), Rock 'n' Roll (2006) and The Hard Problem (2015). He has written the screenplays for adaptations of Anna Karenina (2012) and Tulip Fever (2014), and co-wrote the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (1998). Read more.
Feb 22, 2021 · Tom Stoppard’s Charmed and Haunted Life. A new biography enables us to see beneath the intellectual dazzle of the playwright’s work. By Anthony Lane. February 22, 2021. Stoppard’s plays are...
Sir Tom Stoppard, orig. Tomas Straussler, (born July 3, 1937, Zlín, Czech.), Czech-born British playwright. After living in East Asia with his family during World War II, he moved to England and adopted his stepfather’s surname.
Oct 2, 2022 · Though the Merzes are Viennese, not Czech, Stoppard has acknowledged the autobiographical nature of the play’s source material: all four of his grandparents and three of his mother’s sisters died...
Nov 28, 2022 · In the time since Stoppard wrote his decades-spanning tragedy about a Viennese Jewish family ultimately doomed by the Holocaust — indeed, even since “Leopoldstadt” opened on Broadway...
Oct 2, 2022 · Tom Stoppard Assesses the Cost of His Charmed Life. 8 minute read. Playwright Tom Stoppard photographed at Cafe Sabarsky in the Neue Galerie on Sept. 15, 2022. Evelyn Freja for TIME. By...
Oct 24, 2020 · Tom Stoppard has written some of the most important plays of the past 50 years. These challenging works each receive detailed analysis here.
