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

Wrapped and Ready

"...than performing like a lump of coal at the bottom of the Miramax stocking, Scream turned into a certifiable..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Further Reflections

SXSW Film Festival

"...plot forms around Johnny's gambling debt to mob capo Tommy Tomatoes, a debt compounded by Johnny's mother, whose number..."

March 21, 1997 Screens Feature

The Great Escape

Chain Gangs! Cast Aways! Kung Fu! Chocolate! ... It's Time for the Holiday Film Previews

"...this Southern thriller, co-written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson... Mel Gibson knows What Women Want. The Parent..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

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

Guy Forsyth

Texas Platters

"...a swaggering, guitar-sliding, Delta-to-Dixie Biblical fable, "Adam's Rib." Troubalicious! Tom Waits meets Tom Stoppard. "Patient's Blues," maybe Dave Matthews..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Crafting the Song

Austin theatre actor Robert Fisher has the heart of a rock & roller, the work ethic of a medieval craftsman, and the style of a Bob Fosse. Either he's in the wrong business or he is, as playwright Kirk Lynn calls him, "a wonder."

"...a company was holding auditions for a production of Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia. "Each of us saw the notice..."

March 16, 2001 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Short Cuts

"...Actor Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful Tom Hanks, Saving Private Ryan Ian McKellen, Gods and Monsters..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Exhibitionism

Duos Danceworks: Double the Pleasure...

"...in Different Stages. Following the group's successful runs of Tom Stoppard's brilliantly wry Arcadia and Giles Havergal's frothy Travel..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Arts Review

Plays in Our Stocking

A Few Dramas We Want St. Nick to Give Austin Theatre

"...(!) in the spring and this fall a Vinegar Tom. But where August Wilson is concerned -- to pick..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Despair Deferred, and an Odd Couple

"...the title for today’s round from a line in Tom Stoppard’s brilliant post-modern reinterpretation of Hamlet, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern..."

Aug. 21, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Mr. Not So Frivolous

Wallace Shawn bares all about writing, why he does theatre, and that play with all the sex in it

"...it's a kind of, well ... Well, for instance, Tom Stoppard has written a play over nine hours long...."

May 11, 2007 Arts Feature by Spencer Parsons

Surviving the Blacklist: Joseph Losey in Europe

Sept. 5-Oct. 10

"...you say about a man who spent time with Tom Stoppard, Tennessee Williams, and Jeanne Moreau? Whose name appeared..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

More Words From Winedale

Additional life lessons and meditations from students in the Shakespeare at Winedale program

"...just burning to do Shakespeare, or Jacobean tragedy, or Tom Stoppard – anything, just let us play!..."

July 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Clayton Stromberger

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