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Tom Stoppard

Wit, Intellect and Sensuality Propel Stoppard's Radiant 'Arcadia' at ACT

Leo Stutzin | Posted 05.31.2013 | San Francisco
Leo Stutzin

Tom Stoppard's genius has never shone more brightly than in Arcadia, his intricate and passionate exploration of the pursuit of cutting-edge scientific knowledge, arcane literary discovery, artistic and scholarly fame, and uninhibited, uncommitted sex.

PHOTOS: What Famous Authors Wrote In Their Books

Posted 05.15.2013 | Books

What do famous authors think when they look back at their earlier books? The English branch of PEN, the international writers' organization that promo...

The Fine Art of Pleasuring a Big Black Giant

George Heymont | Posted 05.08.2013 | Arts
George Heymont

Earlier this year, I attended the opening nights of two Bay area productions that could not have been more dissimilar. In each case, the audience's final response was telling.

Attention, Sweden: Tom Stoppard Deserves the Nobel Prize

Felipe Munhoz | Posted 06.12.2013 | Books
Felipe Munhoz

Don't forget Tom Stoppard. He's among the few masters; he's a unique mind, true genius. He deserves the Nobel Prize.

A Pink Floyd Play To Celebrate 40 Years Of 'Dark Side'

AP | Posted 03.28.2013 | Arts

LONDON -- He wrote a play called "Rock `n' Roll," and now Tom Stoppard is returning to the topic with a radio drama inspired by Pink Floyd. The play ...

Doomed Marriages Take Over Broadway

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.04.2013 | Arts

NEW YORK — Two celebrated stage works about marriages in crisis by Tom Stoppard and Donald Margulies are heading to Broadway. The Roundabout Th...

Tom Stoppard: 'Not Adapting My Own Plays for Film'

Wyatt Closs | Posted 04.21.2013 | Entertainment
Wyatt Closs

Award-Winning screenwriter and playwright Tom Stoppard, who received the Writers Guild of America, West's 2013 Laurel Award for Film, says he doubts that he would ever adapt any of his own theatrical works for the screen.

Anna Karenina, Unfinished

Sean Lyngaas | Posted 01.21.2013 | Entertainment
Sean Lyngaas

Joe Wright's adaptation neglects one of the most intriguing and autobiographical storylines of the novel.

Review: Anna Karenina

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.14.2013 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

With Keira Knightley as the muse, Joe Wright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard transform Tolstoy's classic into a film that is emotionally wrenching, even as it turns the world it depicts inside out.

Toronto Diary or "Who's Vronsky?"

Erica Abeel | Posted 09.08.2012 | Entertainment
Erica Abeel

I arrived in Toronto on a muggy afternoon to be blown away by Joe Wright's adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. But Wright should brace for some critical roughing up.

Rushdie Cancels Festival Appearance Due To Threats

AP | By PRAKASH BHANDARI | Posted 01.23.2012 | Books

JAIPUR, India (Associated Press) -- Booker-Prize winning author Salman Rushdie canceled plans to appear at an Indian literature festival Friday after ...

Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival

Victoria Lautman | Posted 03.13.2012 | Chicago
Victoria Lautman

To describe the Jaipur Literature Festival as the rambunctious love-spawn of the mercantile-minded Frankfurt Book Fair and free-spirited Woodstock barely scratches the surface of this spectacle.

Writer Wednesday: Inspiring Writing Quotes From Famous Authors (PHOTOS)

Posted 06.13.2011 | Books

The hardest part is to keep going, and every writer knows it. The best have left their words of wisdom to help the rest of us plod along. We loved the...

Arcadia and Wittenberg: The Theater of Beautiful Minds

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Regina Weinreich

Behold the brilliance of Tom Stoppard! His genius is reason enough to see the Broadway revival of Arcadia at the Barrymore, a civilizing relief ably d...

Theater: "Arcadia" Revival Delights

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

ARCADIA *** 1/2 out of **** ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE What a marvelous play! That's my first reaction after seeing the new revival of Tom Stoppard's Ar...

Stage Door: Wittenberg, Arcadia

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Fern Siegel

Blending pop-culture references -- from The Wild One to Shakespeare to Freudian therapy -- playwright David Davalos sets his dynamic comedy in 1517 Germany.

Get Thee to a Library! Unsung Hero of 41st St: Library Way

Lily Bevan | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Lily Bevan

Where better to joke about the tumultuous nature of literature than on a plaque the size of a puddle on the approach to one of the most important libraries in the world.

"The Play's the Thing": Getting Butts in the Seats

Ashley Wren Collins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Ashley Wren Collins

"I don't think revolution ever happens on big Broadway stages. So our responsibility is to create extraordinary events in small rooms that infect the rest of the culture," Anne Bogart insists.

Eureka! Science Belongs On Stage

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Lauren Gunderson

Science is built for the stage. The very act of scientific discovery is one of the most dramatic in the human experience. Dramatic because it changes everything.

First Nighter: Peter Stein Scores with Dostoyevsky's The Demons for 12 Hours!

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
David Finkle

The Demons is something to experience for anyone who loves to be immersed in theater -- this immersion offered with four 15-minute intermissions and two meal breaks.

Tom Stoppard Fears Loss Of Printed Page, Thinks Educational Focus Has Shifted Away From Humanities

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has spoken of his fear that the "printed page" is being lost in a "world of technology"....

Media Literacy 101: Tom Stoppard and Laura, Euna and Atwar

Susan Moeller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Susan Moeller

This year already, 19 individuals have been killed around the world because of their work as journalists. We need to recognize the essential role journalists play in keeping us informed and in protecting our freedoms.

Can Artists Save The World?

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Julia Moulden

A photograph of me circa 1977 hangs over my desk. It was taken by Toni Beatty, an American photographer I met when we shared adjoining villas and a g...

Hannah Montana: The Movie (3rd draft, by Tom Stoppard)

Spencer Green | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Spencer Green

Hannah: Staring at these grazing ungulates, I question my own identity. Are they better off masticating the dew-flecked herbage below them, unaware of the charnelhouse that awaits?