"For more than half a century, Tom Stoppard's plays have left audiences entranced, whether those works were his earlier comedies like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Inspector Hound or more ambitious historical works like and Leopoldstadt. Stoppard's long literary career has reached its conclusion; The Guardian's Claire Armitstead and Chris Wiegand reported that Stoppard died on Saturday at home at the age of 88."
"One of the most bracing stage performances I've ever seen was in one of Stoppard's plays: Sinéad Cusack in the Broadway production of Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll. The play reckons with grand ideas - ideology, dissent, authoritarianism and art among them - but what stands out for me, years later, is a scene in which Cusack's character reckoned with her own mortality in the most visceral language imaginable."
"There is a lot to say about Stoppard and his work. In a statement released on Saturday, PEN America hailed the ways that Stoppard's work "asked essential questions about how we live, love, die, and explore the depth of the human condition." And his work includes multiple Tony and Olivier Award nominations and wins, plus an Academy Award for his work on the screenplay of Shakespeare in Love."
Tom Stoppard died at home at age 88, concluding a more than fifty-year career of influential plays. His work ranged from early comedies like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Inspector Hound to ambitious historical dramas including The Coast of Utopia and Leopoldstadt. He won multiple Tony and Olivier Awards and an Academy Award for the screenplay of Shakespeare in Love. PEN America praised how his work asked essential questions about living, loving, dying, and the human condition. Stoppard combined intellectual, cerebral drama with deeply felt individual portrayals, exemplified by Sinéad Cusack’s visceral scene in Rock 'n' Roll where a character confronts mortality.
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