‘The BFG’ Enchants With Puppets and Pantomime Spirit

There is plenty of stimulation for young theatergoers in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved ...
Los Angeles Times

9 essential plays by Tom Stoppard

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Tom Stoppard, frequently hailed as the greatest British playwright of this generation, had both a remarkable life ...
Yahoo

9 essential plays by Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard, frequently hailed as the greatest British playwright of this generation, had both a remarkable life and a remarkable career. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1937, his family fled to Singapore ...

SpongeBob Voice Actor Tom Kenny Shares One Thing About The Show Grown-Up Fans Tell Him They Have ‘Nightmares’ Over

Original fans of the SpongeBob SquarePants television series will remember the various appearances of the live-action ...
Rolling Stone

David Byrne and His Blue-Clad Band Tear Through Talking Heads Classics During ‘Tiny Desk’ Concert

David Byrne and his gigantic band of blue-clad backing musicians squeezed into the NPR offices for a Tiny Desk Concert, featuring a pair of Talking Heads classics. While the setup didn’t necessarily ...
Digital Spy

Benedict Cumberbatch plays a "Tom Hardy-type" character in "unique" new Guy Ritchie movie

Guy Ritchie has assembled quite the stacked cast for his next movie Wife & Dog, including Rosamund Pike, Benedict Cumberbatch, Anthony Hopkins, Paddy Considine and Cosmo Jarvis. Interestingly, there's ...
The Independent

Surreal, erudite and always experimenting: Tom Stoppard was a playwright never likely to stand still

When I think of Tom Stoppard, I think first of a rather trivial moment in his 1982 play The Real Thing, when the protagonist worried about the possibility that he might be asked to appear on Desert ...
Mercury News

Tom Stoppard dies; wrote brain-teasing plays and movies including ‘Brazil,’ ‘Coast of Utopia,’ ‘The Real Thing’

LONDON (AP) — British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist, has died. He was 88. Related Articles Greg Biffle dies at 55; champion NASCAR racer was beloved for work helping others ...
The Mirror

Maldives shark attack as tourist mauled after chasing beast to 'play with it'

A holidaymaker was left injured in a terrifying shark attack after chasing the beast to "play with it". The 26-year-old Chinese woman had been on a scuba diving course in the Maldives earlier this ...
The New York Times

When Tom Stoppard Confronted His Background in His Final Play

The playwright, who learned about his Jewish heritage late in life, addressed it in the Tony Award-winning drama “Leopoldstadt.” By Marc Tracy Tom Stoppard, the playwright and screenwriter who died on ...
The Financial Times

British playwright Tom Stoppard dies

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has died, aged 88. He wrote dozens of plays — among them Rosencrantz and ...