Merrimack Rep looks to the humanity behind ‘Heroes’ Nov 20, 2009
Heroes was written in 2002 by French playwright Gerald Sibleyras, and Tom Stoppard adapted it for the British stage ... Tom Stoppard isn t working on a sitcom, right. (Boston Globe)
In eerie ‘Sleep No More,’ the audience wanders through the Bard’s bloody business Oct 16, 2009
In this, we are like the title characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard s comic meditation on Hamlet, as we roam from room to room, sometimes entering in the middle of scenes. Punchdrunk is asking you to take part in a collaborative act of the imagination, to become in a sense the author of your own version of Sleep No More. (Boston Globe)
TV chef's life was a long, well-oiled lunch Sep 19, 2009
He worked as a clerk, then cub reporter for the Bristol Evening Post with Tom Stoppard, whose impenetrable jokes he found rather intimidating. Floyd worked nights on the Western Morning News as well. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Terry Gilliam Films Sep 14, 2009
Brazil (1985) was co-written with the play-write Tom Stoppard, and was set an overly-bureaucratic yet technologically backward distopia. This darkly comic sci-fi fantasy starred Robert Di Niro, and the only link with the past came from an appearance by Michael Palin. (Suite101.com)
Fall theater productions Sep 13, 2009
HEROES Translated from the original French by Tom Stoppard, this three-hander by Gerald Sibleyras takes place in a convent hospital, where elderly veterans of World War I plan one final adventure. Nov. 19-Dec. (Boston Globe)
The web's the thing Sep 13, 2009
Our early rehearsals consisted of us reading aloud to each other for hours, says O Donoghue, seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard s Rock n Roll ... Our early rehearsals consisted of us reading aloud to each other for hours, says O Donoghue, seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard s Rock n Roll. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Michael Palin in the Movies Sep 9, 2009
First, in 1985, he took a role in Brazil, another brain-child of Terry Gilliam, who again directed, this time working from a screenplay written with Tom Stoppard. In an all-star cast which featured Jonathan Pryce and Robert de Niro, Palin did not have a leading role. (Suite101.com)
Musical Theatre in Toronto Fall Win... Sep 8, 2009
September 28 to October 24: Rock n Roll by Tom Stoppard (Canadian Stage Company with Edmonton's Citadel Theatre). October 31 to November 7: Iphig;nie en Tauride by Gluck (Opera Atelier at the Elgin Theatre). (Suite101.com)
Hartford Stage preps Horton Foote’s ‘Orphans’ Home Cycle’ Aug 30, 2009
He saw such multipart cycles as Peter Hall s production of John Barton s Tantalus in Denver and Tom Stoppard s The Coast of Utopia on Broadway, and he directed both parts of Tony Kushner s Angels in America at the Venice Biennale. Wilson understood the cumulative power and possibility of transcendence for audiences watching these kind of can t-miss, epic theatrical events, with storytelling on a grand scale. (Boston Globe)
Daily television listings Aug 19, 2009
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interview with Joseph ONeill Jul 14, 2009
"), he recalls his decidedly one-sided lifelong friendship with his great subject. Unlike the real-life Ticknor, this one is an embittered also-ran, full of plans and intentions never realized, always alive to the fashionable whispers behind his back. Heti seamlessly inhabits Ticknor's fussy 19th-century diction with a feat of virtuoso ventriloquism that puts one in mind of The Remains of the Day. Heti's Ticknor would be insufferable if he weren't so funny, and in the end, the black humor brings... (Harper's Magazine)
This day in history Jul 3, 2009
Playwright Tom Stoppard is 72. Writer-producer Jay Tarses is 70. (Boston Globe)
* [HARDCOVER: US] Samuell Beckett spills his guts May 31, 2009
Tom Stoppard has said that hes hoping to stay alive until the rest of the collected edition is published; Im not exactly holding my own breath, but there are clearly delights and discoveries in store. This story has been viewed 220 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Old dog's new tricks May 30, 2009
"Thank God, no. It takes a lot less time and a lot less hoo-ha. The guests can just drop in, you do it, then have a Chinese meal. Tom Stoppard won't do that for you in a TV studio.". But he admits he still sometimes wishes he hadn't turned his back on the medium that made him a household name. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Edmonton's Citadel Theatre Announce... Mar 26, 2009
Following quickly in its tracks is Rock n Roll by the legendary Tom Stoppard. It runs from November 7 to 29, 2009, and is described by the Citadel s artistic director, Bob Baker, as a drama with amazing music from bands like Pink Floyd and The Velvet Underground. (Suite101.com)
Skip navigation Mar 24, 2009
Leveaux will direct '93 Tom Stoppard play. videogames. (Variety)
Storyteller found his voice on stage Mar 21, 2009
Shaped by his upbringing in a Jewish immigrant family, which brought an outsider perspective, the director was finding his distinctive voice in a lively, politically engaged decade when writers such as John Osborne, Howard Brenton, David Hare, Tom Stoppard and Caryl Churchill were being daring and ambitious. "When I started out I was 22 and there was a general climate of experimentation and people challenging the status quo," he says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Peter Vermilye, towering figure on Boston's financial scene, 89 Mar 16, 2009
""If you were to talk to him about current politics, his eyes would light up and he would be thrilled to talk about what was going on in the world," his daughter Dana said.As a trustee at Boston University, Mr. Vermilye chaired the university's investment committee for 35 years. With the help of his expertise, BU's endowment grew from $28 million to more than $1 billion by 2006. BU gave him an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in 2007.He loved the theater and was chairman of the Huntington... (Boston Globe)
VARIETY: North Iowa Entertainment Briefs Mar 10, 2009
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard s masterpiece play, is a post-modern, existentialist take on Shakespeare s Hamlet. An instant modern classic, it won the 1968 Tony Award for Best Play, has appeared on stages all over the world, and became a major motion picture. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Fonda haunting in return to stage Mar 10, 2009
At its best, 33 Variations recalls Margaret Edson s Wit (about a poetry scholar dying of cancer), Tom Stoppard s Arcadia and the work of Tony Kushner. But the play sags in the middle and ultimately feels a few variations too long.. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Finding Travesties in the Stoppard archives Feb 19, 2009
Written by Tom Stoppard ... Soulpepper Theatre Company continues its journey through British playwright Tom Stoppard's rich back catalogue with 1974's Travesties, a Tony winner in which the aforementioned writer, revolutionary and artist meet in neutral Switzerland during the First World War. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Harold Gould returns in 'Viagara Falls' (3) Feb 8, 2009
Gould s stage work includes Broadway runs of Jules Feiffer s Grown Ups, Neil Simon s Fools and Tom Stoppard s Artist Descending a Staircase. He received an Obie for Vaclav Havel s The Increased Difficulty of Concentration. (Desert Entertainer, CA)
Tangled in time Feb 7, 2009
CORVALLIS Oregon State University s production of Tom Stoppard s Arcadia is a heady journey through two stories told simultaneously, yet separated by 180 years ... Tom Stoppard s literary genius shines in this play, director Elizabeth Helman said. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
