The Irish actress's relationship with the late English playwright has passed into the annals of recent theatre history - but it was finding the son she'd given up for adoption that spelled the end of the affair
By the time I was cast in Rock'n'Roll in 2006 I had been following Tom for years. I saw Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead when it came to London in 1967 with the wonderful Graham Crowden as the Player King. It was a big sensation. The Real Thing was a great play and Arcadia was extraordinary. Rock'n'Roll was w at the Royal Court in London by Trevor Nunn and starred Rufus Sewell as Jan, a Czech student who returns to Prague in 1968.
The $22.5 million Broadway musical The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenoweth and scored by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked) will play its final performance on Jan. 4 at the St. James Theatre. What was supposed to be a high-gloss Broadway blockbuster is shuttering less than three months after opening night. The musical was adapted from the 2012 documentary film of the same name, which chronicles the attempts of a wealthy Florida couple to build the largest private home in America,
"I did talk to George about one of the episodes," Stoppard told in 2014. "It must have been ten years ago. Actually, it was Steven. Steven Spielberg asked me to read a script and do a kind of dialogue polish. I did a bit, but I wouldn't want to usurp the writer's claim on the movie. [ Laughs] Polish is such a strange word for what one does. I interfered with George's script in a mild way."
LONDON -- British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's "Shakespeare In Love," has died. He was 88. In a statement Saturday, United Agents said Stoppard died "peacefully" at his home in Dorset in southern England, surrounded by his family. "He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity,
