HRC Director Tom Staley to Retire in 2011

Stepping down after 22 years turning center into a world-class institution

"..."Under the leadership of Tom Staley, the Ransom Center has become an American pantheon..."

April 26, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

"...Directed by: Tom Stoppard. Starring: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss and..."

May 10, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Review: The Stage Austin's The Real Inspector Hound

The director, not the dead guy, is the victim in Tom Stoppard's vicious critique of critics

"...Whatever panning multi-Tony Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard received came early in his long career of..."

July 28, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Tulip Fever

Intrigue blossoms in 17th century Amsterdam

"...DeHaan, Jack O'Connell, Zach Galifianakis, Christoph Waltz, Holliday Grainger, Tom Hollander and Judi Dench...."

Sept. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin Playhouse's The Real Thing

Tom Stoppard's play receives a remarkable revival with a seasoned cast

"...Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing eschews the traditional fare of..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Shakespeare in Love

It's flighty, improbable stuff, meant not to be a historical restorative but a modern romantic tribute to the scribe whose words have launched a million sonnets.

"...Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Simon Callow and Antony Sher. “The play's the..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Past Passion

Austin Shakespeare revisits Tom Stoppard in Hades for The Invention of Love

"...whom you should or should not have loved? Playwright Tom Stoppard may not, but he gives that rather Twilight..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Enigma

"...Starring: Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam, Tom Hollander and Robert Pugh. Jonathan Mostow's recent U-boat battle..."

May 10, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Look Back in Wonder

The British Invasion, Part One: Theatre, 1956-1996

"...is that the British are coming. Playwrights David Hare, Tom Stoppard, and Timberlake Wertenbaker; actor Janet Suzman; actor, director,..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Travesties

Tom Stoppard's Travesties mixes early 20th-century history, European politics, and Oscar Wilde into a typically brilliant work, and the cast of Austin Playhouse's production rises to the intellectual challenges of the script and appears to be having a fine time playing with it.

"...Importance of Being Earnest. In typical, brilliant fashion, playwright Tom Stoppard manages to mix all these ingredients into a..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Arcadia

Having sat through a Tom Stoppard play, there comes the feeling that a return visit is required to better appreciate all his linguistic, historical, scientific, sexual, comedic, and theatrical flourishes. The Austin Playhouse production of Arcadia, featuring one of the best ensembles to be seen on an Austin stage, may, indeed, warrant repeat visits to fully enjoy its efforts.

"...The genius of playwright Tom Stoppard is his ability to juggle several major themes..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Shouting in the Evening's Events

"...7:30pm A Conversation With Tom Stoppard: Tom Stoppard and Mel Gussow..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Arts Feature

The Invention of Love

Ambitious script, gifted cast take us inside a brilliant mind in Austin Shakespeare's production

"...into the minds of two: that of the inimitable Tom Stoppard, who penned the masterpiece, as well as Victorian-era..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

Anna Karenina

Joe Wright's bold but empty imagining of Tolstoy's classic is set mostly within the walls of a theatre.

"...complexity of Tolstoy’s vision is only just skimmed here. Tom Stoppard’s script, which has no shortage of heart-stopping one-liners..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Playwrights in the Queue

"...Theater at the Social Security Office; November 8 Playwrights Tom Stoppard and David Hare, theater critic Michael Billington, octogenarian..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Books Feature

Reeling in '98

The Austin Chronicle Top Nine Films of 1998

"...1. The Sweet Hereafter (39) 2. Hands on a..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

Articulations

Listening in the Evening

"...importance in the past 40 years. Playwrights David Hare, Tom Stoppard, and Timberlake Wertenbaker; actor-directors Frith Banbury and Janet..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Arts Column

Austin Playhouse's Shakespeare in Love

The Oscar-winning film makes a successful transition to the stage through Don Toner's marvelous production

"...screenplay of the same name by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall. Arguably,..."

March 30, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Exhibitionism

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Feb. 6, 1998 Arts Review

Heroes

A strong ensemble abets this witty but quiet play about three old French soldiers

"...lives. Yet the script by Gérald Sibleyras, translated by Tom Stoppard, does not fall into those traps. The play..."

March 13, 2009 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt on 'Will in the World'

"...movie about something else." But he went on with Tom Stoppard to write the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love...."

Oct. 7, 2005 Books Review by Robert Faires

Bard Ambition

Stephen Greenblatt on 'Will in the World'

"...movie about something else." But he went on with Tom Stoppard to write the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love...."

Oct. 7, 2005 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Smaller Than Life

Chronicle critic Ada Calhoun finds The Off Center's production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead gasping for air..

"...The script's the thing in this verbose 1966 Tom Stoppard play. Adapted for the screen in 1990, Rosencrantz..."

July 21, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Postscripts

Austin is clearly experiencing a bout of literary event mania.

"...their collection of 20th-century British playwrights (they also have Tom Stoppard, John Osborne, David Hare, and George Bernard Shaw)......"

Feb. 11, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Twin Dragons

"...own sphere as the gemlike verbal wit of a Tom Stoppard script. Granted, you could search Jackie's entire body..."

April 16, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Review: Austin Shakespeare's Sense and Sensibility

Putting the pedal to the metal bolsters Jane Austen's classic work

"...Just for the hell of it, playwright Tom Stoppard wrote 15-Minute Hamlet, an abridged version of Shakespeare's..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Arcadia

A magnificent-looking and intelligent staging of Tom Stoppard's masterpiece

"...Tom Stoppard, in his 1993 masterpiece Arcadia, weaves these seemingly..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Why Archive?

The Harry Ransom Center explores its own raison d'être in a new exhibit

"...– mystique? Of the archives? Oh yes, my friend. Tom Stoppard, A.S. Byatt, and Julian Barnes, among many others,..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

Author? Author?

Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? Writer Amy Freed plays the question for laughs.

"...considered Charles Ludlam's version of Hamlet, Stage Blood, and Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's MacBeth," he says. "So I liked..."

March 31, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Makes Me Wanna Shout!

"...Osborne, Samuel Beckett, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter, David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Timberlake Wertenbaker, and Caryl Churchill; lectures on and..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Arts Column

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