The Stage (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Coronation Street actor Graeme Hawley is to return to Manchester's Library Theatre in February to play the lead role in Tom Stoppard's play Rock'n'Roll.
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Courtesy of About Last Night, eavesdrop on recent conversations with Tom Stoppard (and Derek Walcott).
About Last Night (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Tom Stoppard, who might just be the greatest living English-language playwright, is in Manhattan on business, and made a couple...
Fabrice Grinda: Musings of an Entrepreneur (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
On Tuesday, I had the privilege to attend an interview with Tom Stoppard at BAM by David Remnick, an editor at the New Yorker. The event epitomized what I love about New York – an erudite audience, an amazing setting, and brilliant presentation. Stoppard was quintessentially Stoppard – extremely eloquent despite the overuse of the phrase [...]
Now What Happens? (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
So, I can't leave well alone and have started a new blog to document progress on our production of On The Razzle by Tom Stoppard. Nothing much will happen until Oliver Twist finishes in a couple of weeks, mind.
Tynan's Anger (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Image via WikipediaTalking points from tonight’s Artist Talk with Tom Stoppard and David Remnick at BAM (not quoted verbatim): The great innovation of Chekhov was his fundamental neutrality towards his characters. It seems jarring to consider The Cherry Orchard or Ivanov as comedies, but they are comedies in the same way that life is a comedy. As he wrote in Ivanov, Chekhov recognized that in...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
And he's being interviewed by David Remnick from the New Yorker. In January 2009, as part of The Bridge Project, BAM will present the world premiere of Tom Stoppard’s new version of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. Stoppard, the author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and The Coast of Utopia has written sparkling adaptations of other plays by Chekhov including The Seagull and...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
After Magritte , the first half of Stone Soup's Tom Stoppard double feature, is one of the most quintessentially British things I've ever seena perfect example, it seems, of how the Brits pull off absurdist humor better than we Americans. The actors' British accents were m...
Quixotical (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Not that I’m particularly mature. At least, not always, and given that I have spent most of the day in my dressing gown playing on the Xbox360, definitely not today. However, it is my birthday and I shall idle it away if I want to! I received craft related gifts, and games [...]
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Theater review: Stone Soup Theatre presents terrific takes on two Tom Stoppard one-act plays, "After Magritte" and "The Fifteen Minute Hamlet," as it opens its new Downstage Theatre at 4029 Stone Way N., in Seattle. The plays run through Nov. 23.
Index on Censorship (Free subscription) | yesterday
We are delighted that Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) nominated by Index for the ArtVenture Freedom to Create prize wre runners up in the main prize category of the inaugural awards. Tom Stoppard, a long-time supporter of the theatre company, handed them the cheque for $15,000 to be shared with Charter 97 in recognition of their [...]
Bryan Appleyard (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
For some reason Harrison Ford movies produce memorable lines. There was, of course, Blade Runner and Roy Batty's dying speech. There was also the brilliant exchange with Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive - Ford: 'I didn't kill my wife', Jones: 'I don't care.' Tom Stoppard once admitted to me that he found that line as thrilling as I do. But there's also also a line in Witness when Ford confronts...
Daily Poetics (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
... and it will close the natural circle of live. This design is as an optical illusion." Title Quote: Tom Stoppard
Corrieblog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Graeme Hawley rocks and rolls in ManchesterWhile Coronation Street kidnapper and love-rat John Stape is currently locked up somewhere awaiting trial for "ring-fencing" Rosie Webster, the actor who plays him is ready for another role. will take to the stage of Manchester's Library Theatre in February in the lead role of Jan in Tom Stoppard's play Rock 'n' Roll. He says, "It's been a really big...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... Eavesdropping on Tom Stoppard with Gwen Orel . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
