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Sep 7, 2022 · DORSET, England — Long before he became the august Sir Tom Stoppard, hailed by some as the greatest British playwright since Shakespeare, Stoppard was a teenage journalist in Bristol, making...
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 in...
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...
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...
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.
Oct 6, 2022 · October 6, 2022. Stoppard rappels down the twentieth century through the interconnected lives of two Jewish families in Vienna. Illustration by Katherine Lam. The word on “Leopoldstadt,” the...
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