Tom Stoppard

...have got that part covered. In this small comic gem by French playwright Gerald Sibleyras, translated and adapted by Tom Stoppard and now being given an enjoyably rowdy regional premiere at Merrimack Repertory Theatre under the...

In this article: Jonathan Hogan, Ron Holgate, Dog, and World War I

...Christmas carols too numerous to mention. But in fact, there are a surprising number of alternatives, including a revival of Tom Stoppard's Artist Descending a Staircase at the Old Red Lion, which includes Edward Petherbridge and Max...

In this article: Henry Goodman, Edward Petherbridge, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Artist Descending a Staircase, and Bertolt Brecht

Such tours have become increasingly rare for non-musicals. 2006 Lincoln Center Theater hosts the U.S. premiere of The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard's sprawling trilogy of plays folliwng Alexander Herzen, a real-life 19th century Russian...

In this article: New York, Our Town, Oxford University, Lois Lane, Cancer, and You Do Something to Me

...credited with bringing the regime down in 1989, you can overcome the difficulties another way. Simply ring Tom Stoppard (pictured) and tell him to sort it out. So far, to coincide with their trip to London and a gig on 15 January, Stoppard, who...

In this article: London, Allegation, Mike Nattrass, Sunday Times, Der Spiegel, Tesco, and The Plastic People of the Universe

...is dead, but the way Labour appears to be going this will be no great handicap. • In the 70s I saw Diana Rigg and John Thaw in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day (Letters, 25 November). Thaw was playing an antipodean journalist; his accent was...

In this article: Robin Wales, Ralph Miliband, Labour, John Thaw, Night and Day, David Miliband, and Diana Rigg

...and Flaherty's A Man of No Importance in 2002. On the London stage, he also created a leading role in the original production of Stoppard's The Real Thing in the West End in 1984. He has been seen on TV in "Cheers" and "The West Wing,"...

In this article: Roger Rees, Ian McKellen, Waiting for Godot, Patrick Stewart, Haymarket, Theatre Royal, A Man of No Importance, and Williamstown Theatre Festival

...techniques aren't torture unless they lead to organ failure, for instance. Or the way that sitting through all nine hours of Tom Stoppard's intellectually taxing 2007 Coast of Utopia trilogy at the Lincoln Center might make one...

In this article: Christopher Durang, The Miami Herald, Homophobia, Catholicism, and Psychotherapy

Hence Maradona's unabashed explanation that his goal against England had been scored by the hand of God. Hence, as Tom Stoppard pointed out in his 1977 TV play, Professional Foul, the unswerving practice of footballers appealing for...

In this article: Thierry Henry, Damien Duff, Paolo Di Canio, Colin Montgomerie, Robbie Fowler, World Cup, Tom Williams, David Toms, and Paula Creamer

...eventually they gather their courage for one final adventure. "Heroes'' was written in 2002 by French playwright Gerald Sibleyras, and Tom Stoppard adapted it for the British stage. It won top comedy awards on both sides of the English...

In this article: New York, Jonathan Hogan, and Ron Holgate

...winners have included Michael Tippett, Dame Ninette de Valois, David Lean, Paul Scofield, Harold Pinter, Alfred Brendel, Judi Dench, Tom Stoppard, Mike Leigh, Helen Mirren and Peter Brook. Bennett had emphatically earned his place in such...

In this article: Alan Bennett, The History Boys, National Theatre, Ian McKellen, Harold Pinter, Critics' Circle, Cancer, and AIDS