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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
Read More: CAREY PERLOFF, Arcadia, Theater, Geary Theater, San Francisco Around Town, Tom Stoppard, Stoppard, San Francisco News
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.

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PHOTOS: What Famous Authors Wrote In Their Books

Posted 05.15.2013 | Books
Read More: Jk Rowling Notes, English Pen, Famous Author Notes, Author Annotations, Julian Barnes, Ian Rankin, Social Reading, Margaret Atwood, Harry Potter Auction, Tom Stoppard, Jk Rowling Author Notes, Author Notes, Books News

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

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The Fine Art of Pleasuring a Big Black Giant

George Heymont | Posted 05.08.2013 | Arts
Read More: Me and Juliet, Disconnect, No Other Love, Tony Martin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Shotgun Players, Keep It Gay, Butterflies Are Free, Meghan O?Connor, San Jose Repertory Theatre, In the Wings, Stuart Bousel, Shipwreck, Anupama Chandrasekhar, Perry Como, That Big Black Giant, The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard, Rosemary Clooney, Rick Lombardo, Patrick Dooley, Pastorella, Video, Arts News
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.

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Attention, Sweden: Tom Stoppard Deserves the Nobel Prize

Felipe Munhoz | Posted 06.12.2013 | Books
Read More: Sir Tom Stoppard, Tom Stoppard, Nobel Prize for Literature, Tom Stoppard Awards, Tom Stoppard Writing, Travesties Tom Stoppard, Books News
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.

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

AP | Posted 03.28.2013 | Arts
Read More: Dark Side Radio, Dark Side Play, Dark Side of the Moon Radio, Pink Floyd Play, Dark Side of the Moon Play, BBC Radio, Pink Floyd Radio Drama, Theater, Dark Side, Pink Floyd, Tom Stoppard, Dark Side of the Moon, Music, Dark Side of the Moon 40th Anniversary, Arts News

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 ...

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Doomed Marriages Take Over Broadway

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.04.2013 | Arts
Read More: Donald Margulies, Dinner With Friends Broadway, The Real Thing, Stoppard the Real Thing Broadway, Dinner With Friends, Stoppard the Real Thing, Tom Stoppard, Donald Margulies Dinner With Friends, Arts News

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

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

Wyatt Closs | Posted 04.21.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Writers Guild of America, Hbo, Anna Karenina, Tom Stoppard, Wga, Entertainment News
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.

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Anna Karenina, Unfinished

Sean Lyngaas | Posted 01.21.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Joe Wright Anna Karenina, Tom Stoppard, Anna Karenina, Keira Knightley Anna Karenina, Book to Film Adaptations, Tolstoy, Entertainment News
Sean Lyngaas

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

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Review: Anna Karenina

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.14.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Kelly Macdonald, Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Anna Karenina, Alicia Vikander, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, An American Tragedy, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, Jude Law, Tolstoy, Count Vronsky, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joe Wright, Tom Stoppard, Anna Karenina Movie Review, Entertainment News
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.

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Toronto Diary or "Who's Vronsky?"

Erica Abeel | Posted 09.08.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Jude Law, " Leo Tolstoy, Keira Knightley, Literary Adaptations, "Anna Karenina, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joe Wright, Tom Stoppard, Pina Bausch, Entertainment News
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.

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Rushdie Cancels Festival Appearance Due To Threats

AP | By PRAKASH BHANDARI | Posted 01.23.2012 | Books
Read More: India, Salman Rusdie, Oprah Winfrey, Annie Proulx, Tom Stoppard, Michael Ondaatje, Jaipur Literary Festival, Darul Uloom, The Satanic Verses, Books News

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

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

Victoria Lautman | Posted 03.13.2012 | Chicago
Read More: Literature, Jaipur, Oprah Winfrey, Lionel Shriver, Oprah, William Dalrymple, Annie Proulx, Tom Stoppard, Michael Ondaatje, Maharaja, Salman Rushdie, Jaipur Literary Festival, Umberto Eco, Chicago News
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.

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

Posted 06.13.2011 | Books
Read More: W. Somerset Maugham, Writing Quotes, Authors, Writers, Writer Wednesday, Erica Jong, Samuel Beckett, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Tom Stoppard, George Eliot, #Writerwednesday, Slidepollajax, Salman Rushdie, #Ww, Books News

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...

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Arcadia and Wittenberg: The Theater of Beautiful Minds

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: J.R. Sullivan, Sean McNall, Billy Crudup, David Leveaux, David Davalos, Wittenberg, Tom Riley, Arcadia, Lia Williams, Tom Stoppard!, Scott Greer, Raul Esparza, Bel Powley, Chris Mixon, David Turner, Margaret Colin, Grace Gummer, Entertainment News
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...

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Theater: "Arcadia" Revival Delights

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Lia Williams, Billy Crudup, Arcadia, Raul Esparza, Tom Stoppard, Entertainment News
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...

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Stage Door: Wittenberg, Arcadia

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Pearl Theater, Theater, Shakespeare, Off-Broadway, Entertainment, City Center, Martin Luther, NY Culture, NY Around Town, Raul Esparza, Billy Crudup, Broadway, Tom Stoppard, New York News
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.

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

Lily Bevan | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Oscar Wilde, Muriel Rukeyser, Descartes, Libraries, Josi Marti, Tom Stoppard, Willa Cather, Nypl, Stephen Schwarzman, New York News
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.

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

Ashley Wren Collins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: The Donkey Show, Death and the Powers, Theater, Under Construction, Signature Theatre Company, Angels in America, See Rock City, Charles L. Mee, Transport Group, Diane Paulus, Medea, SITI Company, Theatre, Hair, Tom Stoppard, The Boys in the Band, John Gielgud, Sleep No More, Aristotle, Macbeth, American Repertory Theatre, David Staller, Anne Bogart, Shaw New York, The Extra Man, Gingold Theatrical Group, Project Shaw, Marian Seldes, Tony Kushner, Jack Cummings III, The Coast of Utopia, Tadashi Suzuki, Punchdrunk, Arts News
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.

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Eureka! Science Belongs On Stage

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Playwriting, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Science-and-Art, Opera, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, Science, Theater, Plays, Michael Frayn, Marie Curie, Play, Drama, John Adams, Theatre, Tom Stoppard, Sean Carroll, Science Fiction, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Arts News
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.

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

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Paola Benocci, The Demons, Wallenstein Betriebs GmbH Berlin, Maddalena Crippa, Franca Penone, Peter Stein, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Matteo Romoli, Fausto Russo Alesi, Teatro Napoli Festival, Graziano Piazza, Paolo Mazzarelli, Tieffe Teatro Milano, Ivan Alovisio, Elia Schilton, The Coast of Utopia, Irene Vecchio, Tom Stoppard, Governor's Island, Armando De Ceccon, Lincoln Center Festival, Andrea Nicolini, Giovanni Visentin, Alessandro Averone, William Shakespeare, Rosario Lisma, Entertainment News
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.

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

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Print Media, Humanities Education, Humanities, Books, Sir Tom Stoppard, Tom Stoppard, Future of Books, Playwright, Books News

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

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

Susan Moeller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Salzburg Global Seminar, Journalism, Al Arabiya, Euna Lee, Laura Ling, Atwar Bahjat, Roxana Saberi, Tom Stoppard, Media, Salzburg Academy, North Korea, Cpj, Academy Awards, Tony Awards, Media News
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.

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Can Artists Save The World?

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Tom Stoppard, Toni Beatty, White House, Michael Pollan, Grassroots, New Radicals, Garden, Careers, Mexico, Artists, Obama, Julia Moulden, Victory Garden, The Giving Life, Healthy Living News
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...

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

Spencer Green | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Horses, Walt Disney, Hannah Montana, Tom Stoppard, Cows, Existence, Movies, Miley Cyrus, Comedy News
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?

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