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Oct 2, 2022 · Tom Stoppard Faces His Family’s Past. A conversation with the playwright about the long journey to “Leopoldstadt,” which has just come to Broadway. “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ...
Oct 2, 2022 · October 2, 2022 10:05 AM EDT. O n the day of his mother’s funeral in 1996, the playwright Tom Stoppard had a little spat with his stepfather Kenneth, the man who married his widowed mother in ...
May 27, 2023 · In the final scene of Tom Stoppard ’s latest play, Leopoldstadt, which follows generations of a Jewish family living in Vienna from the late 1800s through World War II and its aftermath, a stand ...
Oct 24, 2020 · In the event, Tom Stoppard: A Life shows that he has chosen well. This is a hugely impressive work. Lee’s book has the scope of a novel; it is superbly researched and written with a rare empathy ...
Feb 15, 2021 · The Czech-born Jewish playwright Tom Stoppard arrived in England with his family in 1946, when he was 8. They’d managed to flee Czechoslovakia ahead of the Nazis, and had spent years in ...
Feb 7, 2021 · In Tom Stoppard: A Life, she proves that in the extreme. Stoppard was born Tomáš Sträussler in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, in July 1937. The son of Jewish parents—his father was a doctor; his ...
Sep 19, 2021 · Sir Tom Stoppard is among British theatre’s giants. Hermione Lee's evocative and immersive biography tells the story of the man and his work. Read by Alex Jennings.
