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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.
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.
Tom Stoppard was knighted in 1997. He lives in London. His latest plays include Heroes (2005), Rock 'n' Roll (2006) and The Hard Problem (2015). He has written the screenplays for adaptations of Anna Karenina (2012) and Tulip Fever (2014), and co-wrote the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (1998). Read more.
May 27, 2023 · Tom Stoppard on Delving Into His Family History for ‘Leopoldstadt’ and What’s Next: “I Feel That I’m Getting Into Something New” The renowned playwright speaks about seeing himself in his new...
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.
Dec 13, 2021 · / The creation of Tom Stoppard, the man as well as the artist, began with a kind of extraordinary disappearing act. The formidable British playwright was born Tomáš Sträussler in the Czech city...
Jul 18, 2022 · Born Tomáš Sträussler, in what was then Czechoslovakia, celebrated playwright Tom Stoppard (1937- ) became one of the best known British playwrights in the world.
May 6, 2019 · Tom Stoppard’s (born. 3 July 1937) dramaturgy reveals a cyclical pattern of activity. He tends to explore certain subjects or techniques in several minor works, then creates a major play that integrates the fruits of his earlier trial runs.
Nov 28, 2022 · “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. But the work springs...
Oct 1, 2022 · All four of the playwright's grandparents died in the Holocaust, but Stoppard only learned he was Jewish in middle age. Now, at 85, he engages with his family history in the play...
