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The Hard Problem, a new play by Arcadia playwright Tom Stoppard to be staged by his The Coast of Utopia director Jack O’Brien, will premiere next fall as a Lincoln Center Theater production. The Stoppard play is one of two new Lincoln Center Theater productions announced today for the fall season. Also coming: Miranda…

Tom Stoppard’s Tony-winning 1974 play Travesties, stuffed thick as a English gentleman’s armchair, its ideas on art, war, patriotism and purposeful nonsense fashioned into a nonstop tourney of wit and erudition, has often been called a brainteaser, but brain tickler comes so much closer to the jubilant staging…

Accepting the PEN American Center’s version of a Lifetime Achievement Award, writer Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare In Love, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead) voiced support on Tuesday night for another of the $1,250-a-plate gala’s honorees, the surviving staff of the Paris-based <a title="Tom Stoppard & Charlie Hebdo…

Tom Stoppard, a fevered friend of free expression and foe of bad writing, will receive the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award for his “extraordinary career as a dramatist and his abiding commitment to the defense of creative freedom worldwide.” It’s the highest honor bestowed by the American chapter of the…

UPDATE, JANUARY 27: Rosemary Harris clarifies that she said “misty-eyed” not “mystified” regarding the film Tea With Mussolini and seeing the role go to Judi Dench. It’s corrected, below. EXCLUSIVE: In November I began these conversations with artists who have deep roots on both coasts with Bradley Cooper, receiving…

UPDATE October 31: Adds Barb Jungr’s show at end. Tom Stoppard's 1982 dazzler gets the matinee-comedy treatment from director-of-the-moment Sam Gold in a revival that leaves its attractive stars, both in their Broadway bows, deeply in the lurch. Glib and weirdly chilly for a literate comedy-drama about love…

The stage adaptation of Oscar winner Shakespeare In Love has opened at London’s Noel Coward Theatre to raves from many of the UK critics but a big ho-hum from the New York Times‘s Ben Brantley, which could throw a wet blanket over plans for a Broadway transfer by co-producers Disney and Sonia Friedman. “I’ve often…

Jack O’Brien, a Broadway polymath as comfortable directing Tom Stoppard chin-strokers as he is developing big Broadway musicals, has signed with CAA. O’Brien, who led San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre from the early 1980s through 2007,  helping turn the regional nonprofit into a sometime Broadway tributary. O’Brien, 74…

EXCLUSIVE: Neophyte screenwriter John Marckesano has been tapped to adapt true story WWII tale A Higher Call for Oscar-winner Tom Stoppard (Empire of the Sun, Shakespeare In Love) and Solipsist Films. Adam Makos wrote the 2012 NY Times bestseller nonfiction tome A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chi…

Oscar-nominated actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is set to make her Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, opposite Ewan McGregor, who is also taking his first trip to the Great White Way. The Tony-winning play is about a playwright (McGregor) who leaves his wife for another woman (Gyllenhaal) and questions whether…

Previews begin October 2, 2014, at the American Airlines Theatre for The Real Thing, the Tom Stoppard play that originally premiered in 1982 in London. It won the 1984 Tony Award for Best Play and most recently was produced on Broadway 14 years ago. Sam Gold is directing the latest incarnation, which will open October…

Remember those Pink Floyd laser shows? Well, here’s an update. This is the Aardman-created trailer for the upcoming Tom Stoppard-penned radio play that will mark the 40th anniversary of the band's The Dark Side Of The Moon. The voice cast includes Bill Nighy, Rufus Sewell, Adrian Scarborough, Iwan Rheon and Amaka…