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Tom Stoppard

September 2024

  • Selorm Adonu in G,

    The week in theatre: G; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; The Real Thing – review

  • James McArdle as Henry and Susan Wokoma as Charlotte in The Real Thing at the Old Vic.

    The Real Thing review – Tom Stoppard’s gem still shines

August 2024

  • Bel Powley

    ‘You never really know if it’s the real thing’: Bel Powley on love and Stoppard

    From The Diary of a Teenage Girl to her latest stage role, the actor is drawn to projects about the tangle of sex and the messy parts of relationships

May 2024

  • Performers in silver bodysuits wearing colourful cartoon-like heads

    Exit, pursued by a panda: the Brits bringing eye-popping Shakespeare to the Baltics

    The Winter’s Tale is retold with a virtual reality plot set in Silicon Valley and hardly any lines from the original, staged at a bold Latvian theatre elevating English talent

January 2024

  • The library in the doll’s house, a 1:12 scale replica on an Edwardian residence, that was given as a gift from the nation to Queen Mary after the first world war.

    Tom Parker Bowles picked for mini library project championed by his mum

    Tom Parker Bowles among 21 writers providing snapshot of contemporary literature in initiative supported by the queen

December 2023

  • Nancy Carroll with Nathaniel Parker in Rock 'n' Roll credit Manuel Harlan

    Rock’n’Roll review – Tom Stoppard’s blast from the past

    Stoppard’s 2006 play asks important ideological questions with typically fizzing wordplay but its growling, feral energy comes too late

November 2023

  • ‘I may have stopped writing without realising it’ … Tom Stoppard.

    ‘Is my play still relevant? I don’t care!’ Tom Stoppard on his Gaza quandary and reviving Rock ’n’ Roll

    As his Velvet Revolution drama returns, the great writer talks about his mounting Israel-Gaza uncertainties, the epiphanies he has in every hot shower – and our one-star ‘corker’ review of The Crown

August 2023

  • Close-up of a tattoo needle being used to create a design

    Brief letters
    Tattoo tribute to my suffragette heroine

    Brief letters: Commemorative tattoos | Fringe first | Bibby Stockholm | Sunak’s trousers

June 2023

  • 76th Annual Tony Awards in New York City<br>J. Harrison Ghee accepts the award for the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for "Some Like It Hot" at the 76th Annual Tony Awards in New York City, U.S., June 11, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Tony awards 2023: Leopoldstadt and Kimberly Akimbo win big in historic night for non-binary actors

    Jodie Comer and Tom Stoppard led a big night for Brits, while J Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell triumphed in a ceremony affected by the writers’ strike

October 2022

  • Tom Stoppard and Samuel Beckett.

    Textplay review – Beckett and Stoppard SMS comedy is short on lols

    A virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter

December 2021

  • Mine’s a play, please … the King’s Head theatre pub.

    King’s Head theatre toasts Victoria Wood and Tom Stoppard in season of rare plays

    Dramas by Bryony Lavery, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Stephen Jeffreys also feature in readings to mark the venue’s 50th birthday

October 2021

  • Morag McLaren, Judi Dench and Di Botcher in A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim

    Top 10s
    Michael Billington’s top 10 books about theatre

    From Anne Enright’s novel about an actor’s daughter to the diaries of former National Theatre director Peter Hall, the theatre critic chooses his favourite titles about the stage

September 2021

  • Reza Khandan Mahabadi, Keyvan Bajan and Baktash Abtin

    Margaret Atwood and JM Coetzee demand release of jailed Iranian writers

  • Colin Farrell in The North Water.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The North Water; Wolfe; My Childhood, My Country; Imagine: Tom Stoppard; Big Age

  • Mercury prize nominee Celeste at the launch party in July.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: who will win the 2021 Mercury prize?

  • monthlyPaperbacks-september-trail

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Susanna Clarke, Claudia Rankine, a biography of Tom Stoppard and more

August 2021

  • The playwright seen in the Imagine episode Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life

    Tom Stoppard admits being at odds with ‘lively’ leftwing UK theatre scene

    Playwright, born in Czechoslovakia, talks of his gratitude to UK for saving him from a life under communism

December 2020

  • Dearbhla Molloy, Anna Calder-Marshall, Aimee Lou Wood, Rosalind Eleazar, Roger Allam and Toby Jones in the film version of Uncle Vanya.

    Observer critics' review of 2020
    Theatre: Susannah Clapp's 10 best of 2020

    Our critic looks back on dazzling state-of-the-nation monologues and valiant virtual reimaginings, Ovid and Oliver Twist

October 2020

  • Tom Stoppard

    Observer book of the week
    Tom Stoppard: A Life review – smuggling heart into a scholar's story

  • Tom Stoppard<br>Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, Tom Stoppard, 21st December 1976. (Photo by Lichfield Archive via Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee review – an exceptional biography

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