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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) review – this brevity is the soul of wit

The Reduced Shakespeare Company returns with a frantic mix of pratfalls, audience participation and lightning-flash characterisations

The Guardian - UK

Malachi Kirby and David Sedaris among BBC audio drama awards winners

The ceremony was held at the BBC radio theatre in London on Sunday.

Evening Standard

Arcadia review – love, gardening and Euclidian geometry collide in Tom Stoppard’s cosmic masterpiece

Stuffed with knowledge and often regarded as the playwright’s finest work, this drama’s sheer cleverness gleams in an exuberant production

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Arcadia at the Old Vic review: a fitting tribute to Tom Stoppard's genius

5/5 This wonderful meditation on love, death and mathematics dances through the mind and the heart

Evening Standard

The best way to get round a difficult problem? Do nothing about it

An idling brain suddenly seems able to join the dots, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Letter: Sir Tom Stoppard obituary

Andrew Gellert writes: The key person in saving my family and the Sträusslers was Dr Bohuslav Albert, the director of the Bata hospital in Zlin

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Letter: Sir Tom Stoppard obituary

Chris Grace writes: His abridgement of The Merchant of Venice is still being performed

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Indian Ink review: Felicity Kendal adds poignancy to Tom Stoppard play

3/5 In the wake of Tom Stoppard’s death this lush adaptation of one of his lesser works is given new charge

Evening Standard

Indian Ink review – Felicity Kendal is formidable in emotional epitaph for Tom Stoppard

The actor gives a skilful performance in the late playwright’s 1995 meditation on love and literary posterity, directed by Jonathan Kent

The Guardian - UK

Letter: Sir Tom Stoppard obituary

Adrian Phillips writes: My doctor in Nairobi, Dr Gellert, also Jewish, told me a story about this. He had been a friend and colleague of Sträussler in Czechoslovakia

The Guardian - UK

Responsibility without power: When human buffers become punching bags for the public

The passing of Britain’s well-known playwright Tom Stoppard late last month prompted many to recall his enduring body of work. Most tributes rightly recalled his theatre plays and screenplays. There was, however, less mention of his little-known novel Lord Malquist and Mr Moon, published in 1966, quite early in his…

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‘A master of complications’: Felicity Kendal returns to Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink after three decades

The writer’s former partner and her co-star Ruby Ashbourne Serkis describe the bittersweet nature of remounting his 90s play so soon after his death

The Guardian - UK

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at the Young Vic: Wickedly funny with a nightmare feel

4/5 The Young Vic presents a profound and nightmarish drama set on the streets of Baghdad during the Iraq War

Evening Standard

Brian Cox on Tom Stoppard’s sensational Rock’n’Roll: ‘I looked through the curtain and saw Mick Jagger and Václav Havel’

The actor, who starred as a Marxist academic in the acclaimed 2006 play at the Royal Court, remembers an astonishing writer of ideas and elegance

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Tom Stoppard: a beloved and monumental literary figure

Letters: Readers reflect on the playwright’s life and legacy

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Evening Standard

Private View at Soho Theatre: 'Like Tom Stoppard doing a dark, queer love play'

3/5 This debut play by Jess Edwards is a brainy rush of ideas

The Guardian - UK

‘I thanked him for ending my acting career!’ – theatre directors on their debt to Tom Stoppard

Carrie Cracknell, Nina Raine and Belarus Free Theatre’s Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin share memories of working with the playwright and ‘guardian angel’

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Reason

Is Economic Anxiety Driving People to Socialism?

Plus: War crime allegations against Hegseth, Congress threatens the legal hemp industry, and reflections on the legacy of Tom Stoppard

Inverse

20 Years Ago, A Hollywood Legend Created The Best Parts Of 'Revenge Of The Sith'

A late theater legend was secretly working behind the scenes on the Star Wars prequels.

The Guardian - UK

Letter: Sir Tom Stoppard obituary

Quentin Falk writes: Stoppard’s screenplay was remarkably faithful to Greene’s original

The Guardian - UK

‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard

The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked together

The Guardian - UK

‘We were swimming in the mind pool of Tom Stoppard!’ – actors salute the great playwright

Rufus Sewell, Christine Baranski, Susan Wokoma, Toby Jones and Harriet Walter share their unforgettable encounters with a theatrical giant

The Independent UK

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

TRIBUTE: David Lister remembers the brilliant, complicated man whose work explored politics, science, love, Shakespeare, and even rock’n’roll

International Business Times UK

Tom Stoppard Dies at 88: What Really Happened to the Man Who Changed Modern Theatre

Tom Stoppard dies at 88 in Dorset. Family confirms peaceful passing as tributes honour the acclaimed playwright who redefined modern theatre.

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