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Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing at the Old Vic: Spirited and Highly Enjoyable Revival of Semi-Autobiographical Love Drama

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Sep 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Adultery is the great staple of modern British playwriting. The anguish of marriage, and the...

Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” at Wyndham’s Theatre

Posted by Mert Dilek | 15th Feb 2020 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Towards the end of Leopoldstadt, a young writer named Leonard is handed a sheet of paper with his...

Probing Tom Stoppard on Russia: Part of The Legacy of Theater Critic and Educator J. Cooper Robb

Posted by Henrik Eger | 4th Aug 2019 | Czech Republic, Documentary Theatre, Dramaturgy, Interview, News, Russia

Cooper Robb, an immensely knowledgeable and prolific American theater critic, who recently passed...

Absurdist Comedy “Every Good Boy Deserves Favour” Gets Its Japan Debut

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 4th May 2019 | Adaptation, Japan, News, Transcultural Collaborations

Tom Stoppard is one of the most influential figures in theater today and one of the most...

Who Is The Greatest Living British Playwright?

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jan 2019 | Essay, Playwriting, United Kingdom

There is a simple dinner-party game that can be played at no ostensible cost. The host asks, “Who...

Tom Stoppard’s “The Hard Problem” Looks for Humanity in Human Consciousness

Posted by Michael Appler | 20th Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

Stoppard has sought to lower the stage into the depths of the human mind, endeavoring to see the theater as a proxy for human consciousness, an outlet whose own bizarre corruptions of life are but well-directed reflections of our own conscious turmoil.