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"...You’ve heard “Tom Stoppard” and “Shakespeare” in the same breath before; he..."

March 21, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Theatre Review: The Shark Is Broken Charts Jaws’ Troubled Waters

Jarrott Productions offers a claustrophobic play diving into artistic egos

"...Guildenstern Are Dead, with characters milling about in interstitials. Tom Stoppard’s play was about the men beyond Hamlet’s Danish..."

Feb. 21, 2025 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Theatre Review: Is Paradise Lost in Arcadia?

Watching the unpredictable and the predetermined unfold at Austin Playhouse

"...It’s a key theme in Tom Stoppard’s tumultuous Arcadia. It’s also what the play could..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

K-Pop, Girl Talk, and Mario Kart Lead Our Recommended Events

Lots of stuff to do after 5

"...of Time on their nightstand, quarks were cool, and Tom Stoppard could write a play about chaos theory and..."

Sept. 13, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

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

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

See How They Run

Playful whodunit spoofs the greatest mystery in theatre

"...Directed by: Tom George. Starring: Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody, David..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 31 - August 6

"...exit as being an entrance somewhere else," wrote playwright Tom Stoppard. That's ripe advice for you to meditate on..."

July 31, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

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

Full Arthur Miller Archive Lands at UT

Ransom Center acquires complete papers by The Crucible author

"...George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, John Osborne, David Hare, Terrence McNally, and Elmer..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...pumped-up choppers, tricked-out muscle cars, stripped-down dune buggies, and customized monster trucks in pursuit of the underdog Max. This..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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

Essential History Museums and Cultural Spaces

Fun for everyone from history buffs to kids who like hands-on science

"...Ray), stage giants (Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Tom Stoppard), and major figures from history and photography (Napoleon,..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...to do. If you're in a rehearsal room with Tom Stoppard, there's nowhere else you want to be! You..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

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

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...nothing and left fragrance at my feet, at the bottom of my boat.“And everything I wanted most slipped to..."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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

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

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily

Austin Playhouse's Sherlockian pastry may be light, but Jason Newman's Great Detective is seriously good

"...no matter if it's written by Katie Forgette or Tom Stoppard or Caryl Churchill or whomever; no matter if..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

TV Review: 'Parade's End'

HBO miniseries is sumptuous and intellectually rigorous

"...lean too hard on a kaleidoscope motif), while writer Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Anna Karenina) adapts with signature..."

Feb. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

Giving a lot of sweet bouquets (and taking their sweet time doing it)

"...honors this year was the Austin Shakespeare production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, winning four awards. The UT Department of..."

June 8, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

Despair

A Fassbinder masterpiece of resignation and moral detachment

"...black comedy of schizophrenia and alienation was adapted by Tom Stoppard from a novel by Vladimir Nabokov and directed..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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

A Talent for Deception

When Joey Hood is onstage, you want to buy whatever he's selling

"...ago. That was in Different Stages' production of the Tom Stoppard play Arcadia, which he auditioned for and was..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ransom: A Novel

Ransom is akin to the director's cut of The Iliad – albeit with a new director

"...read like a dissertation written in the style of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead but without the..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Books Review by James Renovitch

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

Animated Ladies

Signe Baumane and Sarah Jane Lapp illustrate their points

"...from now? I think I grew up in the Tom Stoppard "the artist provides one half, the spectator the..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Ophelia

This Hamlet seen through the eyes of Ophelia – rather, five Ophelias – is astounding

"...From Tom Stoppard to John Updike to Austin's Refraction Arts, the..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

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